Michael E. Solimine / Summer 2015

Michael made a presentation in May on “Advisory Opinions and Declaratory Judgment Actions in the Supreme Court,” before the Judicial Branch and Administration of Justice Committee, of the Ohio Constitution Modernization Commission.

He aided in the preparation of, and was a signatory to, amicus curiae briefs of law professors in two cases in the U.S. Supreme Court: Shapiro v. McManus (no. 14-990), concerning the procedures for convening a three-judge district court, and Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins (no. 13-1339), concerning when Congress may by statute confer Article III standing on plaintiff who suffers no concrete harm. Both cases will be argued and are expected to be decided in the Court’s 2015-16 Term.

Several of Michael’s books and articles were cited.

  • Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood Press 1999) (with James Walker), in Richard H. Fallon, Jr., et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and The Federal System (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2015).
  • Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts:  An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const. LQ. 213 (1983) (with James Walker), in Richard H. Fallon, Jr., et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and The Federal System (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2015).
  • Ideology and En banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Micheal W. Giles, et al., Policymaking under Constraint: Decision Modes in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 36 Just. Sys. J. 95 (2015).
  • Shoring Up Article III: Legislative Court Doctrine in the Post-CFTC v. Schor Era, 68 B.U. L. Rev. 85 (1988) (with Richard Saphire), in Richard H. Fallon, Jr., et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and The Federal System (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2015).
  • Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Richard H. Fallon, Jr., et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and The Federal System (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2015).
  • Diluting Justice on Appeal? An Examination of the Use of District Court Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J.L. Ref. 351 (1995) (with Richard Saphire), in Andrew L. Adler, Extended Vacancies, Crushing Caseloads, and Emergency Panels in the Federal Courts of Appeals, 15 J. App. Prac. & Process 163 (2014); and Jeffrey Budziak, The Strategic Designation of Visiting Judges in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 36 Just. Sys. J. 233 (2015).
  • Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995) (with Susan Wheatley), in Susan B. Haire & Laura P. Moyer, Diversity Matters: Judicial Policy Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals (U. Virginia Press 2015), and Andreia de Castro-Rodrigues & Ana Sacau, Judges’ Perception on Causes of Criminality and Justifications for Crime, 7 Eur. J. Prob. 124 (2015).
  • The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J.L. Ref. 79 (1996), in Joseph W. Mead & Nicholas A. Fromherz, Choosing A Court to Review the Executive, 67 Adm. L. Rev. 1 (2015).
  • Judicial Reputation: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Greatness in a Lower Federal Court Judge: The Case of J. Skelly Wright, 61 Loy. L. Rev. 29 (2015), and Allessandro Melcarre & Giovanni B. Ramello, Judicial Independence, Judges’ Incentives, and Efficiency, 11 Rev. L. & Econ. 149 (2015).
  • Deciding to Decide: Class Action Certification and Interlocutory Review by the United States Courts of Appeals Under Rule 23(f), 41 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1531 (2000) (with Christine Oliver Hines), in Claire E. Bourque, Comment, Liability Only, Please-Hold the Damages: The Supreme Court’s New Order for Class Certification, 22 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 695 (2015).
  • Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Micheal E. Giles, et al., Policymaking under Constraint: Decision Modes in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 36 Just. Sys. J. 95 (2015).
  • Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 35 (2002), in Richard H. Fallon, Jr., et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and The Federal System (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2015), and Lauren Gailey, Thirty Years Too Long: Why the Michigan v. Long Presumption Should be Rejected, and What Can be Done to Replace It, 53 Duq. L. Rev. 483 (2015).
  • Congress, Ex parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in Richard H. Fallon, Jr., et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and The Federal System (Foundation Press, 7th Ed. 2015), and Joseph W. Mead & Nicholas A. Fromherz, Choosing A Court to Review the Executive, 67 Adm. L. Rev. 1 (2015).
  • Congress, Separation of Powers, and Standing, 59 Case Wes. Res. L. Rev. 1023 (2009), in Helen Hershkoff, Waivers of Immunity and Congress’s Power to Regulate Federal Jurisdiction: Federal-Tort Filing Periods as a Testing Case, 39 Seton Hall Legis. J. 243 (2015).
  • The Solicitor General Unbound: Amicus Curiae Activism and Deference in the Supreme Court, 45 Ariz. St. L.J. 1183 (2013), in Mila Sohoni, The Problem with “Coercion Aversion”: Novel Questions and the Avoidance Canon, 32 Yale J. on Reg. Online 1 (2015).

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