U.S. Supreme Court
Law Dean Touts Football Tickets in Successful Letter to Chief Justice
Posted Sep 10, 2009 9:48 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
The dean of the University of Michigan Law School offered Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. tickets to a football game and a $15,000 honorarium to make an appearance and help the school celebrate its 150th anniversary.
Roberts declined the honorarium, the Michigan Daily reports. He will appear at the school this weekend.
“Many have wondered what exactly the best tack is to take when trying to get a visit from the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,” the newspaper says. “University officials went with football tickets to the Notre Dame game. It worked.”
The newspaper quoted from the invitation letter (PDF posted by the Michigan Daily) sent by Dean Evan Caminker. “I recognize that you receive many more invitations to visit law schools than you can possibly accept,” Caminker wrote, "but I daresay that Michigan Law can offer something no other law school can: a seat at midfield in the Big House!”
Roberts is at least the third Supreme Court justice to visit the law school in the last five years, the story says. The school’s law library director, Margaret Leary, told the Michigan Daily that Roberts will participate in an informal question-and-answer session led by Caminker. A press advisory has more details.
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Comments
Steve
Sep 10, 2009 3:32 PM CST
Does MI even have a football team? What did they go last year? 3 wins lol. Coach Rod and his boys will never win the Big Ten.
Isn’t the NCAA looking into rule violations by them?
Go Bucks
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Hodensack
Sep 11, 2009 7:24 AM CST
Does OSU even have a law school? What did they do last year? Tied for 7th place in the Big Ten with Wisconsin! ROTFL. They’ll never crack the top 25.
Michigan: We’re not snobs, we’re just better than you.
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Tim
Sep 11, 2009 7:50 AM CST
Wake me up when the Big Ten can beat an SEC team?
Was it 35-3 last year USC spanked OSU?
UM is a joke. They haven’t been relevant in football in years.
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E
Sep 11, 2009 8:05 AM CST
You are all silly. Big 12 South is clearly CFB’s powerhouse conference. Okie State stomped on Georgia last week, and showed SEC crybabies that Big 12 defenses are a force to be reckoned with. Yes the Big 11 is a sad, sad conference, and should be eliminated from BCS eligibility, and Coach Rod at Michigan has serious ethical issues. So what if USC is about to stomp on tOSU? The Pac-10 is simply a house of cards. It is truly embarrasing to see what College football outside of the Big 12 South has become, there are hardly any teams worth recognizing, because they are all so clearly inferior to the Big 12 South.
By the way, Hook em.
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Billow
Sep 11, 2009 11:53 AM CST
Can’t the ABA Journal even cut and paste correctly? It’s not the right “tact” - it’s “tack” (as the Michigan Daily noted).
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