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(Image via Getty) Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “What the Supreme Court left unsaid about Trump’s criminal immunity: The federal election case has returned to the trial…
(via Image Generator) Another day, another federal judge reading the Supreme Court for filth. This time it’s Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee and former chief judge of the US District Court of Massachusetts, calling out how “a six-member majority, eschewing historical analysis sought fundamentally to redesign the relationship between the sovereign people and the…
(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It’s high time that a prominent nonlawyer take a turn at this critique of the Roberts court, and it’s clear that [Tim] Walz may succeed where all of us polite eggheads have failed. The Supreme Court supermajority represents a…
Judge Whitaker is tidying up loose ends before the jury returns on Monday. She finally got to the small matter of Judge Glanville’s secret meeting with the prosecution and Mr. Copeland where they tried to bully him into testifying against Jeffrey Williams & co. Brian Steel decided that this is one of the hills he…
(Photo by Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images) We’ll have to wait a little longer to see how thoroughly SCOTUS boned Trump’s election interference case, as the government is still working out how to reconcile the Court’s July 1 ruling with actual law as we’ve all understood it since the founding of…
Congratulations to Elon Musk for successfully threatening a litigant out of business. Earlier this week, Musk sued former Twitter advertisers for failing to put aside their financial best interests and gleefully shower cash upon the man who publicly told them, “go fuck yourself.” He’s been on quite a journey from that display of hubris to…
The ILTACON conference will set attendance and other records this year, and our ILTA on ATL channel will be the top place to follow the event. Starting on Monday, Above the Law and ILTA will be bringing you daily updates from the conference, along with profiles of the sponsors you’ll be meeting, including: After ILTACON…
When attorneys go from outside counsel to in-house counsel, do they remember their old friends? The post Stat(s) Of The Week: Goodbye, Stranger appeared first on Above the Law. #Stats #Week #Goodbye #Stranger
(Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) As we reported earlier this week, lawyers across the United Kingdom have been put at risk due to the ongoing anti-immigration riots that have swept through the country. The groups rallying these violent protests have published online a target list of legal professionals, including their addresses. In the wake of…
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Aug 9, 2024 at 10:57 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Friday, August 9, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 9, 2024, 10:57 AM),…