Seth P. Waxman

Private practice · Washington, D.C. · Attorney · argued OT 2010–2025

34arguments since OT 2010

18–16record (side argued for), 53%

39Justice remarks faced per argument (open period; all advocates 47)

59%of those remarks read as doubt by Jev (all advocates 63%)

Arguments by term

Side wonSide lostPending / unclear

Arguments

Term	Case	Side	Role	Result	Remarks faced	Doubt (Jev)
OT 2025	John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith	Respondent	Attorney	Won	71	38%
OT 2024	Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, LLC	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	27	32%
OT 2024	Glossip v. Oklahoma	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	56	39%
OT 2022	Twitter v. Taamneh	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	104	47%
OT 2022	Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	85	51%
OT 2021	Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v. Davita	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	50	58%
OT 2020	National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston	Petitioner	Attorney	Lost	42	–
OT 2020	Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	28	45%
OT 2018	The Dutra Group v. Batterton	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	29	65%
OT 2018	Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	37	72%
OT 2017	Mccoy v. Louisiana	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	53	49%
OT 2016	Sca Hygiene Prods. Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Prods., LLC	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	32	79%
OT 2016	Samsung Electronics v. Apple	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	29	43%
OT 2016	Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc.	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	44	–
OT 2016	Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp.	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	26	74%
OT 2015	Hurst v. Florida	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	31	49%
OT 2015	Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company	Respondent	Attorney	Won	27	75%
OT 2014	Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc.	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	30	84%
OT 2014	Jesinoski v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	39	88%
OT 2014	Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission	Respondent	Attorney	Won	28	69%
OT 2014	Gelboim v. Bank of Am. Corp.	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	45	89%
OT 2013	Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc.	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	29	57%
OT 2013	Pom Wonderful LLC v. Coca-cola Co.	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	21	44%
OT 2013	Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	11	31%
OT 2013	Hall v. Florida	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	40	48%
OT 2012	Oxford Health Plans LLC v. John Ivan Sutter	Petitioner	Attorney	Lost	31	70%
OT 2012	Vernon Hugh Bowman v. Monsanto Company et al.	Respondent	Attorney	Won	34	57%
OT 2012	Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc. et al.	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	43	73%
OT 2012	Amgen Inc. et al. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds	Petitioner	Attorney	Lost	46	65%
OT 2011	Federal Communications Commission et al. v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. et al.	Respondent	Attorney	Won	27	61%
OT 2011	Michael Martel, Warden v. Kenneth Clair	Respondent	Attorney	Lost	48	57%
OT 2010	Microsoft Corporation v. I4I Limited Partnership et al.	Respondent	Attorney	Won	20	67%
OT 2010	Michael D. Turner v. Rebecca L. Rogers et al.	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	40	60%
OT 2010	Chase Bank USA, NA. v. James A. Mccoy, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated	Petitioner	Attorney	Won	26	50%

Names, roles and sides from each transcript's list of appearances; results from the Supreme Court Database (did the side argued for win). Remarks faced: Justice turns of five words or more right after this advocate spoke, open period only. Doubt: TypeSafe's Jev reading of those remarks (an experiment, available where our research run covered the case).