Michael E. Solimine / Winter 2015

  • Professor Michael Solimine was quoted in the November 2015 issue of the ABA Journal by Mark Walsh in Misinformation Age: Court Weighs the Right to Sue an Internet Data Site, at pages 19-20. Mark Walsh interviewed Professor Solimine following Professor Solimine joining an amicus curiae brief of law professors filed on behalf of the respondents in the Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins case, argued in the U.S. Supreme Court. The online version of the article is available at available at www.abajournal.com/magazine.
  • Professor Michael Solimine co-authored an amicus curiae brief filed in Shapiro v. McManus, 136 S. Ct. 450 (2015), arguing that the lower court decision should be reversed. The case concerned the powers of a single district judge in deciding whether to convene a three-judge district court. In December, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case in a unanimous decision agreeing with the argument asserted in the amicus curiae brief.
  • The second edition of Professor Michael Solimine’s casebook, Election Law and Voting Rights (LexisNexis 2d ed. 2015)(co-authored with Michael Dimino and Bradley Smith), was published.
  • Professor Solimine spoke as a commentator to Capital University law professor Brad Smith, in a presentation in November, 2015 sponsored by the Federalist Society student chapter, on Campaign Finance: From Citizens United to McCutcheon v. FEC: What the Roberts Court Gets Right.

Additionally, Professor Solimine’s work was cited in the following:

  • Professor Solimine’s work, with Christine Oliver Hines, 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, 1548 (2000), in Jason Kornmehl, State Action on Appeal: Parker Immunity and the Collateral Order Doctrine in Antitrust Litigation, 39 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1 (Fall 2015).
  • Professor Solimine’s An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Louise Weinberg, A Radically Transformed Restatement for Conflicts, 2015 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1999 (2015).
  • Professor Solimine’s Judicial Selection in Ohio: History, Recent Developments, and an Analysis of Reform Proposals 7-8 (2003), in Barbara S. Gillers, The Honorable Jonathan Lippman, The Honorable Sue Bell Cobb, The Honorable Maureen O’Connor, & The Honorable Louis Butler, A View from the Bench, 18 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 549 (2015).
  • Professor Solimine’s Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig) was cited in Richard A. Posner, Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary (Harvard U. Press 2016); and Nuno Garoupa & Tom Ginsburg, Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory (U. Chicago Press 2015).
  • Professor Solimine’s Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int’l L.J. 51 (1992) was cited in Legal Opinions Committee, ABA Business Law Section, Cross-Border Closing Opinions of U.S. Counsel, 71 Bus. Law. 139 (2015-2016).
  • Professor Solimine’s The Solicitor General Unbound: Amicus Curiae Activism and Deference in the Supreme Court, 45 Ariz. St. L.J. 1183 (2013) was cited in Mary R. Vasaly & Reagan William Simpson, The Amicus Brief: Answering the Ten Most Important Questions About Amicus Practice (ABA, 4th ed., 2015).

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