Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Judge Paul Huck's Court Observer Program a success

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Every summer, Judge Huck holds a really cool seminar for summer interns/clerks.  Here are some pictures from this year's event: ...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Lighthouse = wet foot (UPDATED w opinion)

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UPDATE -- here's the 35-page opinion . Some good stuff.  Here's the conclusion: “We acknowledge, as a widely-accepted truth, that ...
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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Supreme Court to end Term on a whimper (UPDATED)

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It's partly because there's only 8 Justices (see, e.g., the immigration case).  It's partly because the Court didn't have as...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

En banc argument in Docs v. Glocks

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You remember the case.  It's the law Judge Cooke struck down and then the 11th Circuit reversed 2-1 (the opinion was amended 3 times be...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Copy-gate resolved (UPDATED)

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The parties worked out their differences in the middle of the litigation (background here ).  The defense already had presented Rossana Arte...
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You gotta read this dissent

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It's by Justice Sotomayor in Utah v. Strieff .  It's a good reminder of why the Supreme Court really needs diversity so that it diff...
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Monday, June 20, 2016

Monday morning (UPDATED)

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UPDATE -- the Court decided Taylor .  Not such a b iggie after all : "The prosecution in a Hobbs Act robbery case satisfies the Act’sco...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

Get those Johnson motions in!

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If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you probably don't have a client who has been enhanced under the Armed Career Cri...
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