Talk:Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association

Naming convention
Hello MZMcBride -- The Court uses Christie v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. Rhadow (talk) 15:57, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Rhadow. I think using "Assn." in a Wikipedia page title would be ugly and unconventional. A redirect from that title makes sense, though. The docket uses "Association" exclusively, it looks like. --MZMcBride (talk) 14:29, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello MZMcBride, you are absolutely correct. The full style of the case is Christopher J. Christie, Governor of New Jersey, et al., Petitioners v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, et al. Looking at the stack of documents (the docket) will lead you occasionally to other names -- in this case, for example, to NJ Thoroughbred Horsemen v. NCAA. Even in the Court's own summaries, for example the link to the oral arguments, it is Christie v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. Ugly as the abbreviation may be, it may end up in the history record, like this one, Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Bd. of Elections. Rhadow (talk) 15:38, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Rhadow. Looking at WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases/Reports/E, I guess it would be "NCAA" in this case, if we continue to follow these awful naming rules. The alternate form would be "National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n" I guess, but we don't do that because "NCAA" is considered common enough or something? --MZMcBride (talk) 01:36, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

6-3 v 7-2
With Breyer's mixed opinion, we need to somehow clarify that the decision to make PASPA unconstitutional was only 6-3 (Breyer did not concur on those parts), but the decision to reverse the Third Circuit's ruling that blocked NJ from removing the gambling bans was 7-2. --M asem (t) 16:44, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Legoktm was also asking about this. I suppose saying it was 6.5–2.5 would be too cute? :-) It's probably best that we avoid the "score" entirely in this case and simply describe how the opinions came out. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:50, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * We could mention both vote counts? Something like... "ruled in a 6-3 opinion that PASPA was unconstitutional and 7-2 to reverse the Third Circuit's prior ruling about New Jersey..."? Legoktm (talk) 05:16, 15 May 2018 (UTC)