Former president Donald Trump has thrust the Supreme Court into the center of his legal problems. The US Supreme Court should ...

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Most appellate lawyers have some writing pet peeve, but there is one failing deserving of universal condemnation! No, not usin...

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In these hyperpartisan times there's a temptation to criticize censorship only when exercised by the opposite political party....

Many attorneys see appellate judges as ATM’s in black robes. Just insert the precedent, type in a few facts, apply the precede...

A year and-a-half after the Supreme Court of the United States sent shockwaves with its Viking River Opinion, we do kno...

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