{"id":525103,"date":"2010-04-12T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:law.nd.edu,2005:News\/15196"},"modified":"2010-04-12T14:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:05:50","slug":"ndls-alums-at-the-u-s-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525103","title":{"rendered":"NDLS alums at the U.S. Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, a Notre Dame Law School alum will clerk for a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. An impressive number of <span class=\"caps\">NDLS<\/span> alums have achieved the coveted and prestigious <span class=\"caps\">SCOTUS<\/span> clerkship post\u2014six over the past ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Samuel Alito selected Tara Stuckey \u201907 to serve as one of his four clerks for the 2010 term, which begins the first Monday in October. Stuckey is an associate at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., where she focuses her practice on legal analysis, briefing, and strategy in complex trial and appellate litigation. She has practiced before district courts, federal appellate courts, and the United States Supreme Court. Stuckey also maintains an active pro bono practice and has represented clients in immigration, criminal, and constitutional law matters. She graduated summa cum laude from <span class=\"caps\">NDLS<\/span>, and served as executive managing editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Morrissey \u201907 is rounding out his year as a clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, who selected him for the term beginning in October 2009. Morrissey clerked for 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diarmuid O\u2019Scannlain after graduation from <span class=\"caps\">NDLS<\/span>, and worked as an associate at Covington &amp; Burling <span class=\"caps\">LLP<\/span> in Washington, D.C., before accepting the <span class=\"caps\">SCOTUS<\/span> clerkship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/lawschool\/news\/~4\/R6NSpdQ1bNE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, a Notre Dame Law School alum will clerk for a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. An impressive number of NDLS alums have achieved the coveted and prestigious SCOTUS clerkship post\u2014six over the past ten years. Justice Samuel Alito selected Tara Stuckey \u201907 to serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}