Sunday, March 30, 2025

News & Notes

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1. Justice Sotomayor speaks out. Via NY Times : “Judicial independence is critical to everyone’s freedom, because arbitrary power is just t...
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Friday, March 28, 2025

FBA Goes to Washington

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 By John R. Byrne Yesterday, members of our local chapter of the Federal Bar Association—myself included—hit Capitol Hill in D.C. to encoura...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

"Blindfolded Juries, Coerced Convictions: Why Prosecutors Often Win Before Trials Even Begin"

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 That's the title of this new Clark Neily article , which is worth a read and starts this way: The Bill of Rights dedicates more words t...
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Monday, March 24, 2025

Bet the law-firm time

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You all know the story. Trump has issued executive orders against Perkins Coie and Paul Weiss. Perkins has decided to fight. Paul Weiss h...
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Friday, March 21, 2025

Chief Judge Pryor Issues Order on Misconduct Complaint

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By John R. Byrne There’s been a trend in multidistrict and class action litigation of federal district judges expressly seeking diversity in...
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

CA9 Judge Lawrence VanDyke dissents in an 18-minute YouTube video

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 Here's the video dissent , after a 147 pages of en banc opinions "This is the first video like this I've ever made." -- J...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Chief Justice Roberts tries to lower the temperature

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President Trump and a number of his surrogates have called for impeachment of Judge James Boasberg, one of our great judges.  Boasberg is sm...
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Monday, March 17, 2025

Big Opinion on Firearms

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 By John R. Byrne The Eleventh Circuit just dropped another major opinion on constitutional law, this time upholding Florida’s ban on firear...
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