New Solicitor General: The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog posted today that President Bush intends to nominate Gregory Garre to replace Paul Clement as Solicitor General. Garre currently serves as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the Office of the Solicitor General at the Department of Justice.

The Influence of Law Blogs: Apparently Ed Whalen, Eugene Volokh, Howard Basham, and Dahlia Lithwick will be performing double duty this week. In addition to blogging on happenings in the legal world, Whalen, Volokh, Basham and Lithwick have all been tapped to appear at the D.C. Circuit's annual judicial conference for a panel on “The Impact of Legal Blogs”. Ed Whalen has a quick post on his involvement as well as a link to the Conference program.

Understanding Denial of Certiorari: Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy posted today on the general misunderstanding of what it means when the U.S. Supreme Court denies certiorari. A headline run in the L.A. Times read: "Fantasy baseball leagues can use real players' names, Supreme Court agrees". Volokh correctly points out that denial of certiorari "is expressly not a statement that the Court agrees with the decision below." This means that "the decision doesn't set any precedent (as Savage correctly said in his last paragraph)." Posts like Volokh's are good reminders for the public. Without them, the public is led to believe the Court actually decided the case on its merits. Volokh also "stress[es] that headlines are written by headline writers, not by reporters."