Today in Supreme Court History: January 26, 1832

1/26/1832: Justice George Shiras Jr.'s birthday.

Justice George Shiras Jr.

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[MickeyFitz]

Award for the best judicial sideburns?

[JoeFromtheBronx]

Today's Order List is 21 pages, which is a red flag that there might be at least one opinion of some sort. That's fairly long for the average order list. And, yes, there was a per curiam.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/012626zor_ec8f.pdf

SCOTUS (with only Jackson publicly dissenting) flagged that it thinks a lower court misapplied a limit on federal habeas. The opinion (this is relatively rare) includes photographs.

The Court also granted cert in a case where the petition uses a scene from the film Hoosiers to make a point.

I do wish the Order List provided links to the docket pages of the cases covered. Instead, the interested needs to look up each individually. It's not really too much to ask in 2026.