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Justice Bedsworth, Homeland Security, and the Peter Principle Collapse in a Heap of Ice Chips
If U.S. Supreme Court Justices can rise above their Green Bag bobblehead replicas, and state court judges survive becoming piñatas, then surely the Department of Homeland Security can survive…
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“Survey: [State Court] Judges Split on Their Use of Social Media”
Robert Ambrogi, at his Law Sites blog, writes on 10/28/10, about the interesting (to put it mildly) results of a survey of state courts and judges: Survey: Judges…
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U.S. Supreme Court Sentencing Decisions (2007-8 Term)
This post is primarily for reference purposes (mine!): One day, in about 8.17 months, someone’s going to ask for the names of these cases, “you now, those cocaine…
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U.S. Supreme Court Imposes Word Limits on Briefs
You (!) are now limited to 15,000 words in your merits briefs (rule 33.1). See 10/10/07 post at Wayne Schiess’s Legal Writing blog. What can I say (and…
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Baby-Names and Detecting Dubious Data
You’ll find lots to laugh and wonder about in the May 15th, 2012, Gallagher blogs posting: “Names, Popular and not So Popular“…
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Motion to Strike!
From the Oregon Supreme Court: “For those reasons, effective April 1, 2007, the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals on the court’s own motion will strike any motion…
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Tyler Goes to Court to Avenge a Videogame-Controller Wrong: A Judicial Civics Lesson Coloring-Book
Visit the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) Justice Case Files website to read this hilarious coloring-book story: Justice Case File 4: The Case of the Broken Controller is…
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Error in the Court Report: Legal Publishing
A Law Librarian Blog July 27, 2010, post was interesting on several counts: It May Be Just One Letter But … When West Refuses to Correct Scopes v….
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Précis of Court Rejection of the Google Books Settlement
“A Guide For the Perplexed Part IV: The Rejection of the Google Books Settlement ,” by Jonathan Band, LLRX , April 11, 2011 LLRX is…