Elena Kagan’s First Time
Posted on January 12th, 2011 in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The Washington Post reports that, yesterday, she delivered her first judicial opinion.
Like other rookie justices before her, Kagan drew a relatively noncontroversial decision for her maiden effort. The court ruled against a man who argued that an ambiguity in federal bankruptcy law allowed him to shield some income from creditors by claiming a monthly allowance for car payments, even though his car loan was paid off.
The lone dissenter? The kookier and kookier Antonin Scalia…