Thursday, August 29, 2019

No news on the magistrate interviews yet

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I’m working on getting the list of 5 names being sent to the judges.  If you have a tip, please email me. In the meantime, if you’d like s...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

We're #5...

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... on this ranking for best places to practice law.  Number 1 is Illinois: Our top state for lawyers based on the six metrics we conside...
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Monday, August 26, 2019

Magistrate Judge Interviews this week

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The Magistrate Judge Selection Committee, headed by Jon Sale, will be conducting interviews Thursday of 13 candidates (two have withdrawn th...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019

"Sheesh."

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That's a sentence from this introductory paragraph by Judge Newsom : You can’t make this stuff up. We have hair-pulling, wrist-scratch...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Prosecutor’s use of an agent as an expert witness is plain error

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We’ve all been in trials where the government tries to use a case agent as an expert witness to testify as to why what the defendant was doi...
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Sunday, August 18, 2019

Judges hit "reply all" too

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The DC district court had a bit of a dust-up this week when an email war between judges went public.  From the Washington Post : A clash ...
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Thursday, August 15, 2019

Judge Rudy Ruiz investiture

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It was a really nice event to a packed house (including two overflow rooms) with heartfelt speeches from Justice Robert Luck, Judge Federico...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Raag Singhal officially nominated to the District Court

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Back in May, t he blog reported that state court judge Raag Singhal was being vetted for an open district court seat in the Southern Distri...
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