Dan Epps

And maybe there might be times when, when those kinds of what we might consider ex parte contexts are inappropriate, but as a general matter, no, I'm not going to say that. Yeah. I'm just riffing. I don't, I don't know. I don't want to commit myself. That seems fine. I think if it weren't a lead-on Trump, everybody would think it was fine. You think everything's fine, though?

You think everything is ethical, right? I think you'd come down and maybe say straight bribes, or maybe you'd be willing to say— Of course bribes are ethical. Okay, okay. But you trust them. You trust them. You think they're all— No, not at all. Okay, okay. All right, we'll just schedule. Maybe we should just schedule like a kind of monthly like ethics episode.

You think everything is ethical, right? I think you'd come down and maybe say straight bribes, or maybe you'd be willing to say— Of course bribes are ethical. Okay, okay. But you trust them. You trust them. You think they're all— No, not at all. Okay, okay. All right, we'll just schedule. Maybe we should just schedule like a kind of monthly like ethics episode.

And we'll get all that stuff out of our system.

And we'll get all that stuff out of our system.

No, I hope not. And I don't think we're going to record the class. No, no, it will be private. Okay, so your attempt, I think mostly failed. I think you got me to go in for like five minutes, but we're still going. On to cases. We actually want to talk about... Two cases. I think we might be able to pull it off. I've got 40 minutes or so. I said might. Might just keeps my options open.

No, I hope not. And I don't think we're going to record the class. No, no, it will be private. Okay, so your attempt, I think mostly failed. I think you got me to go in for like five minutes, but we're still going. On to cases. We actually want to talk about... Two cases. I think we might be able to pull it off. I've got 40 minutes or so. I said might. Might just keeps my options open.

But two cases, one perhaps slower profile than the other, but one being a case that represents a victory by a friend of the show, Ashley Culler, whose praises we have sung in the past for, I'd say, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat in the Mallory case, that interesting personal jurisdiction case we talked about. Not last term? Prior term? Is it last term? It's all kind of blending.

But two cases, one perhaps slower profile than the other, but one being a case that represents a victory by a friend of the show, Ashley Culler, whose praises we have sung in the past for, I'd say, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat in the Mallory case, that interesting personal jurisdiction case we talked about. Not last term? Prior term? Is it last term? It's all kind of blending.

Prior term. Prior term.

Prior term. Prior term.

Okay. And I thought he gave an incredibly good oral argument. I think I actually played the intro. But this is another... Can we talk about this one for a minute before we do TikTok? Can we get away with that? Are you worried about it? Okay. Another one where I think – and there – so back to Mallory, in that case, very narrow win.

Okay. And I thought he gave an incredibly good oral argument. I think I actually played the intro. But this is another... Can we talk about this one for a minute before we do TikTok? Can we get away with that? Are you worried about it? Okay. Another one where I think – and there – so back to Mallory, in that case, very narrow win.

Carved together an unusual coalition of conservative liberal justices, really as close as it could possibly be, and got Alito seemingly to very grudgingly come along. And here's another kind of impressive win in that it's a unanimous win. But as respondent, respondents are less likely to win than petitioners and getting the court to side with the short side of a split.

Carved together an unusual coalition of conservative liberal justices, really as close as it could possibly be, and got Alito seemingly to very grudgingly come along. And here's another kind of impressive win in that it's a unanimous win. But as respondent, respondents are less likely to win than petitioners and getting the court to side with the short side of a split.

I think getting the court to affirm where the court below was the only court on that side of the split.

I think getting the court to affirm where the court below was the only court on that side of the split.

So by the way, I had cats for some time and I was kind of conned into buying the prescription cat food for some number of years. And I remember I was at the vet one time and I kind of just started asking questions. I was like, well, why is it prescription? And they like, They did not have great answers for me. And then I just decided, I was like, this is stupid.

So by the way, I had cats for some time and I was kind of conned into buying the prescription cat food for some number of years. And I remember I was at the vet one time and I kind of just started asking questions. I was like, well, why is it prescription? And they like, They did not have great answers for me. And then I just decided, I was like, this is stupid.

I'm going to get the regular Costco cat food. So I got smart on that.