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Index
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Abraham, Henry J., 215
Abraham, Mildred, 215
Acland, Antony, 7
acronyms, 226
Adventures of a Biographer (Bowen), 4n
advocacy, speech about, 115
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), 173, 174, 176, 302
AJEI (Appellate Judges Education Institute), 226, 227, 228
Alexandra House (Hong Kong), 318
Alito, Samuel, 33, 63, 214
“All My Loving” (Beatles), 153
American Business Trial Lawyers, 106
American Consulate (Hong Kong), 280
American Heritage Dictionary, The, 122
American Society of Legal Writers (Scribes), 98
American vs. European judges, 319
American vs. Hong Kong judging, 300–305
Anderson, Danny, 254
Andrews Sisters, 2
Angela’s Cafe (Dallas), 249
“Antonin,” 319
Antonino, Uncle, 53, 319
Appellate Judges Education Institute, The (AJEI), 226, 227, 228
Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 266–67
Arberg, Kathy, 23, 24, 28, 89, 207
“Argument, The” (Monty Python), 79
Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss), 125–27
Aristotle, 30, 35, 48, 49, 87, 119
“Arrogance of Justice Anthony Kennedy, The” (Jeffrey Rosen), 195
Art of Persuading Judges, The. See Making Your Case
Asia presentations, 272, 274, 275–77, 278–79, 300–304, 315–18
Associated Press, 187
Atlantic Monthly, 65
Austin, Texas, 46, 49, 106, 108, 115, 217, 331
Bangkok, Thailand, 20
barber-shop adventure, 248–49, 254–56
Barnes, Ben, 243
Barzun, Jacques, 141
Battaglia, David, 106–7, 108
Battaglia, Julie, 108
Bea, Carlos, 217, 221, 223n
Beatles (band), 2, 153, 345
Benson, Robert, 135
Bentham, Jeremy, 228
Bentsen, Lloyd, 7–8
Berch, Rebecca White, 223n
Bernard Shaw (Harris), 6n
Bernstein, Theodore M., 16
Biden, Joe, 317
Birkenhead, Earl of (F. E. Smith), 85–86
Bistro Bis (Washington, D.C.), 42, 43, 44, 173
Black, Henry Campbell, 173, 316
Black, Hugo, 188
Black, Max, 72
Blackmun, Harry A., 26, 155, 318
Black’s Law Dictionary (Garner ed.), 9, 12, 14, 15, 28, 162, 173, 191, 218, 229, 262
bobbleheads, 23, 24, 27, 250
Boccherini, Luigi, ix
Bokhary, Kemal, 300–305
Boston Legal, 118
Boswell, James, 5
Boswell’s Life of Johnson, 5n
Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 4
Bravin, Jess, 54n, 132
Brennan, William J., 155, 318
Breyer, Stephen, 33, 315
Bridge of Spies, 336
British Embassy, 7, 12, 13
Brooklyn, New York, 16, 216
Brooklyn College, 25–26
Brushart, Thomas, 160
Bunny, Bugs, 304
Burger, Warren, 143–44, 145, 155, 191, 318
Bush, George H. W., 331
Bush, George W., 263
Business Insider, 198
Caesar, Julius, 133
Café Zoetrope (San Francisco), 219
Calamandrei, Piero, 40
canons of construction:
contra proferentem, 276–77
distributive-phrasing canon, 225
ejusdem generis canon, 121, 130, 131, 224
fixed-meaning canon, 166–67, 202, 225
negative-implication canon, 225
repealability canon, 225
repeal by implication, 225
rule of lenity, 225
rule of the last antecedent, 251, 255
series-qualifier canon, 251, 255
Canyon, Texas, 69
Carnegie Hall, 4, 95
Carp, Alex, 18n11, 130n
cases cited:
Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter, 515 U.S. 687 (1995), 158
Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), 143, 200
Central Education Agency v. Independent School District of El Paso, 254 S.W.2d 357 (Tex. 1953), 236n
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), 99, 110, 261–62
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), 228–29
FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 529 U.S. 120 (2000), 269
Gutierrez de Martinez v. Lamagno, 515 U.S. 417 (1995), 18n12
James v. United States, 478 U.S. 597 (1986), 155–56
King v. Burwell, 135 S.Ct. 2480 (2015), 172–75, 302
Kungys v. United States, 485 U.S. 759 (1988), 39n
McBurney v. Young, 569 U.S. 221 (2013), 214
Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988), 24n
New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), 162, 205
Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S.Ct. 2584 (2015), 235, 274, 279
Rapanos v. United States, 547 U.S. 715 (2006), 17n
United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990), 301–2
Catholic retreats, 129
Causation in the Law (Hart & Honoré), 48
Center for American and International Law, 120
Central District of Hong Kong, 306, 308, 327
Central Michel Richard (Washington, D.C.), 173, 180
Chandler, Pam Siege, 48
“Changing Constitution,” 202. See also “Living Constitution”
Charlotte’s Web (White), 347
Cheng, Karolyne H. (Garner). See Garner, Karolyne H. C.
Cheng, Sandra, 140–41, 243, 284, 285, 295, 297, 298
Chesterman, Simon, 241, 273, 274, 275, 277, 278, 279
Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, The (Garner), 246
Chi Lin Nunnery, 320–21
Chinese New Year, 241, 281, 287–88, 328
Chinese University of Hong Kong, 241, 300–306
Chinese zodiac, 292, 323
Christmas gift, 266–67
Christ the King Catholic Church (Dallas), 264, 265
Cicero, 40, 49, 91
cigarettes, 56–57, 269, 334
cigars, 200, 203, 218
Claremont, California, 11, 52, 53
Claytor, Cynthia G., 300n55
CNN, 90, 181
Coase, Ronald, 102
“Cockney Trump” video, 299
Colbert Report, The, 187
College of William & Mary Commencement Speech (Scalia), 107n26
condoms, 184–85
Congress, 20, 147, 176, 192, 204, 278, 301, 302
Consider the Lobster (Wallace), 22, 32
Coppola, Francis Ford, 219–20
Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.), 173, 236
Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong), 280, 300, 308–10, 314, 315
Crane, Denny, 118
Crocky, 300
Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause, 317
C-SPAN, 187, 197
Curriden, Mark, 206, 207
CVS drugstore encounter, 256–57
Daily Missal, 237
Daily Show, The, 187
Dai Yee, 295, 296, 297–98
Dallas Bar Association, 90–93, 118
Dallas Morning News, 205–6, 232, 233n
Dallas visits, 120, 199, 227–30, 245–68
Dangerfield, Rodney, 218
Davies, Ross, 24
DaVinci, Leonardo, 78
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, 16, 21, 26, 217, 223n, 275, 319
“dead, dead, dead,” 201, 202, 205–6
Dedman, Rachael, 200
Dedman, Robert, 200
Dellinger, Walter, 175
descriptivism, 14, 15
de Vere, Edward (Earl of Oxford), 132–33
Devitt, Michael R., 75
Diamond, Brandy, 31
Dickens, Charles, 228
Dictionary of Modern American Usage, A (Garner), 13, 18, 32, 67, 107n25, 122, 162, 178
Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, A (Garner), 23n, 122
dissents, value of, 302–3
Domingo, Marta, 195
Domingo, Placido, 97, 194–95
Douglas, William O., 201
Dukakis, Michael, 8
Dvořák, Antonin, 319
Easterbrook, Frank, 12, 63, 207
ejusdem generis, 122, 130, 131, 224
election of judges, 304
Elements of Legal Style, The (Garner), 67
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 223n
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 228
English, Elizabeth, 152
English, Eric, 96, 152
Equal Protection Clause, 279
Estrada, Patricia. See McCabe, Patricia
Eulogy of Judges, A (Calamandrei), 40
“Evening with Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Kemal Bokhary, An” (Claytor), 300n
“Event Horizon” (art installation in Hong Kong), 312–13
“Expert Makes a Case to Clarify Fine Print” (Hall), 233n
falling incident, 143
Family Affair, A, 70
Fearing’s (Dallas), 121
Federalist Society, 108, 113
Federal Judges Association, 223
Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, 9
Federer, Roger, 340
Feldman, Marty, 67
Fernando (tipstaff), 34–35, 61, 173, 215
Field, Stephen J., 34
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 92, 156, 223n, 226, 277
First Circuit Court of Appeals, 223n
Fish, Stanley, 135
Fisher, Anne, 66
flag-burning case (Eichman), 301–2
footnotes, 2, 20–21, 23, 79, 97, 102, 115, 124, 161, 234, 235
Ford, Gerald, 258
fortune cookie, 235
fortune-telling, 321–23
fourth branch of American government, 204
Fowler, H. W., 13, 15, 16, 17–18, 39
Fox News Channel, 181, 187
Frank, Angela, 13, 20, 31, 32, 33, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 68, 81, 84, 130, 132, 163, 174, 183, 184, 185, 199, 209, 211, 212, 215, 222, 226, 243, 245, 246
Frank, John P., 101
Frankfurter, Felix, 135
Franzen, Don Erik, 194, 195
Franzen, Jonathan, 12
Freud, Sigmund, 145
Fromme, Squeaky, 258
Fuchs, Erin, 198n
Gaga, Lady, 181
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 102
Galileo, 228
Gallicisms, 178
Gane, Christopher, 300, 304, 305
Garner, Alexandra, 21, 42, 82
Garner, Brad, 142
Garner, Caroline, 13–21, 22, 42, 56, 58, 59, 82, 117, 118, 120, 190
Garner, Gary T., 30–31, 121, 122, 137, 140, 143, 153, 154, 252
Garner, Karolyne H. C., 93, 94, 96, 98, 108, 109, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, 125, 126, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 150, 152, 154, 159, 165, 169, 172, 173–74, 175, 176, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 189, 190, 191, 194, 197, 198, 199, 203, 204, 207, 208, 209, 211, 214–16, 217, 218, 219, 226, 227, 229, 231, 238, 240, 241, 243, 244, 245, 247, 250, 253, 254, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265–67, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 278, 280, 282, 283, 284, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 292, 293–94, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 304, 305, 306, 308, 309, 310, 311, 313, 314, 315, 316, 319, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338–39, 342, 349
Garner Law Scholars, 180
Garner on Language and Writing, 107n27
Garner’s Modern American Usage, 13, 18, 32, 67, 107n25, 122, 162, 178
gender-neutral writing, 65–67, 76, 78, 97, 124, 156
General Counsel Forum, 243
George Mason School of Law, 24
Georgetown University, 102
Gero, Ed, 230–32, 236–37
Ginsburg, Marty, 126
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 9, 18, 22, 26, 33, 42, 44, 117–18, 124, 125–26, 215, 315
Glaberson, William, 23
global warming, 219
Godfather, The, 219, 220
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 228
Gormley, Antony, 312, 313
Gorsuch, Neil M., 79–80, 221, 222
“gotcha” questions, 85, 88, 89, 110, 112, 185
Gove, Philip, 38
Gowers, Ernest, 39
Graglia, Lino, 109, 110
grammar and punctuation:
active voice, 75
contractions, 64–65
flat adverbs, 19
hyphenation, 19
nominative absolute in the Second Amendment, 99–100, 110
passive voice, 74–75
phrasal adjectives, 19
pronouns and gender, 65–67, 76, 78, 97, 124, 156
sentence-starting conjunctions, 20, 121
Green Bag, 24
Grieg, Edvard, ix, 1
Griffin, Meade F., 38, 168, 235–36
groupies, 3, 115–16
Guero’s Taco Bar (Austin), 115
Guidelines for Drafting and Editing Court Rules (Garner), 9
gun rights, 99–100, 110, 261–62
Guy Fawkes Day, 34, 41, 43
Haines, Heather, 172
Hall, Cheryl, 233n
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 126, 303, 320, 321, 341
Hammurabi, 119
Hand, Learned, 101
Hanks, Tom, 336
Harlan, John Marshall, II, 101
Harper’s Magazine, xi
Harris, Frank, 5n6
Hart, Clifford, 281, 283, 300, 304
Hart, H. L. A., 48, 162
Hartz, Harris L, 223n
Harvard Law Review, 58, 103
Harvard Law School, 15, 111, 191, 229, 230
Harvard University, 14, 332
Havins, Ivan, 249, 254, 255, 256
head-in-a-bag comment, 235
Hecht, Nathan, 216–17, 223n, 245, 246, 260, 263
Heller decision, 99–100, 110, 261–62
High Court of Hong Kong, 241
Hirsch, Steven, 75
Hockaday School (Dallas), 21, 42
Holder, Eric, 175
Hollywood Road (Hong Kong), 291
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 4, 101, 192, 301
Holofernes, 179
Hong Kong Consul General’s reception, 281–83
Hong Kong Lawyer, 300
Honoré, Tony, 48, 162–63, 164
Hor, Michael, 315, 318
HSBC bronze lions, 309
Hughes, Lynn, 141
I due Foscari (Verdi), 194
“Incoherence of Antonin Scalia, The” (Posner J.), 195
indexing, 86–88
Ingraham, Laura, 90
initialisms, 226
Innsbruck, Austria, 59, 240
International Order of St. Hubertus, 328
“In the Hall of the Mountain King” (Grieg), 1
introductions of Scalia and Garner, 106–7, 191–92, 217–18
Irish anecdote, 103
Italian-American community pride, 211–12
Italian language, why Scalia J. never learned, 69, 71–72
Jackson, Robert H., 101
Jackson, Tiger, 30, 46, 51, 172, 180, 195
Jacobin, 13, 22, 65–66
jade pieces, 295–97, 339, 340
Janáček, Leoš, 129
jellyfish, 290–91, 314
Jethro Tull (band), 323
jet lag, 271–72
Johanson, Stanley, 109
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), 160
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 26
Johnson, Samuel, 5, 153, 228
Jones, Edith, 63
Jones Day (law firm), 192
Jonson, Ben, 133, 228
“Judges and Democracy” (moderated discussion), 300–301
“Judicial Interpretation of Legal Texts” (Scalia), 273–74
judicial pay, 20
Juilliard School, 107n24
“Justice Scalia” (Boston Legal episode), 118
Kavanaugh, Brett M., 223n
Kaye, Judith, 67
“Keep the Briefs Brief, Literary Justices Advise” (Liptak), 73n20
Kelley, David E., 118
Kennedy, Anthony, 17, 33, 191, 195
Kennedy, John F., 8
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 4, 94, 96, 97, 98, 121, 124, 126
Kerber, Angelique, 299
kill-me-first joke, 142
Kim, Christopher, 243, 286
King Lear (Shakespeare), 321
Kozinski, Alex, 12, 63, 191, 221, 222, 223n
Kuby’s Sausage House (Dallas), 256, 257–59
Lady Gaga, 181
Lamb, Brian, 90, 187
Latin language, 36, 103, 122, 131, 133, 153, 162, 168, 169, 179, 237, 276, 325
law, teaching, 102, 111, 204–5
law clerks, 17, 18, 20, 28, 161, 172, 180, 197, 231, 272, 275
Law of Judicial Precedent, The (Garner et al.), 220–22, 223n
law reviews, 111