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Just got my 17,000 word brief under the required 11,000 words. #LawFedi #AppellateMastodon
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Just got my 17,000 word brief under the required 11,000 words. #LawFedi #AppellateMastodon
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Just got my 17,000 word brief under the required 11,000 words. #LawFedi #AppellateMastodon
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Just got my 17,000 word brief under the required 11,000 words. #LawFedi #AppellateMastodon
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Updated introduction. I'm a criminal defense lawyer from Salem and Boston, Massachusetts. I’ve argued cases from small local courts to SCOTUS. I post about criminal law, prisons, policing, climate change, and my dog.
Vegan since 1989. Drive an EV (a Bolt). Grew up a punk and metal kid, but listen widely esp funk and hip hop.
I try to boost Indigenous voices, not talk over them.
#Introduction #CriminalLaw #SalemMA #mapoli #prisons, #bail #appellateMastodon #appeals #vegan #punk #metal
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Updated introduction. I'm a criminal defense lawyer from Salem and Boston, Massachusetts. I’ve argued cases from small local courts to SCOTUS. I post about criminal law, prisons, policing, climate change, and my dog.
Vegan since 1989. Drive an EV (a Bolt). Grew up a punk and metal kid, but listen widely esp funk and hip hop.
I try to boost Indigenous voices, not talk over them.
#Introduction #CriminalLaw #SalemMA #mapoli #prisons, #bail #appellateMastodon #appeals #vegan #punk #metal
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Updated introduction. I'm a criminal defense lawyer from Salem and Boston, Massachusetts. I’ve argued cases from small local courts to SCOTUS. I post about criminal law, prisons, policing, climate change, and my dog.
Vegan since 1989. Drive an EV (a Bolt). Grew up a punk and metal kid, but listen widely esp funk and hip hop.
I try to boost Indigenous voices, not talk over them.
#Introduction #CriminalLaw #SalemMA #mapoli #prisons, #bail #appellateMastodon #appeals #vegan #punk #metal
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Updated introduction. I'm a criminal defense lawyer from Salem and Boston, Massachusetts. I’ve argued cases from small local courts to SCOTUS. I post about criminal law, prisons, policing, climate change, and my dog.
Vegan since 1989. Drive an EV (a Bolt). Grew up a punk and metal kid, but listen widely esp funk and hip hop.
I try to boost Indigenous voices, not talk over them.
#Introduction #CriminalLaw #SalemMA #mapoli #prisons, #bail #appellateMastodon #appeals #vegan #punk #metal
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I've just used the word "participle" in an appellate brief. This is either a huge loss or a flawless victory. #AppellateMastodon
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The MA SJC issued an important opinion yesterday in Commonwealth v. Dew. A defense lawyer repeatedly posted racist and Islamophobic comments on Facebook, including from the courthouse and including comments about his clients. The Court held that this was an actual conflict of interest. Where there is an actual conflict of interest, the defendant need not show how it specifically affected his case.
[And as to that attorney, good riddance.]
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The MA SJC issued an important opinion yesterday in Commonwealth v. Dew. A defense lawyer repeatedly posted racist and Islamophobic comments on Facebook, including from the courthouse and including comments about his clients. The Court held that this was an actual conflict of interest. Where there is an actual conflict of interest, the defendant need not show how it specifically affected his case.
[And as to that attorney, good riddance.]
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The MA SJC issued an important opinion yesterday in Commonwealth v. Dew. A defense lawyer repeatedly posted racist and Islamophobic comments on Facebook, including from the courthouse and including comments about his clients. The Court held that this was an actual conflict of interest. Where there is an actual conflict of interest, the defendant need not show how it specifically affected his case.
[And as to that attorney, good riddance.]
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NEW: For Washington lawyers, or anyone with an interest in appellate precedent, I've got a new piece out in the Wash. St. Bar News. I examine how appellate precedent is playing out in our state courts five years after our Supreme Court's rejection of horizontal stare decisis in the Court of Appeals: https://wabarnews.org/2023/06/12/when-precedent-lacks-power-make-the-judge-want-to-decide-in-your-favor/
#LawFedi #LegalWriting #AppellateFedi #AppellateMastodon #WSBA -
NEW: For Washington lawyers, or anyone with an interest in appellate precedent, I've got a new piece out in the Wash. St. Bar News. I examine how appellate precedent is playing out in our state courts five years after our Supreme Court's rejection of horizontal stare decisis in the Court of Appeals: https://wabarnews.org/2023/06/12/when-precedent-lacks-power-make-the-judge-want-to-decide-in-your-favor/
#LawFedi #LegalWriting #AppellateFedi #AppellateMastodon #WSBA -
NEW: For Washington lawyers, or anyone with an interest in appellate precedent, I've got a new piece out in the Wash. St. Bar News. I examine how appellate precedent is playing out in our state courts five years after our Supreme Court's rejection of horizontal stare decisis in the Court of Appeals: https://wabarnews.org/2023/06/12/when-precedent-lacks-power-make-the-judge-want-to-decide-in-your-favor/
#LawFedi #LegalWriting #AppellateFedi #AppellateMastodon #WSBA -
If the Third Circuit wants to promote work/life balance the response should be to have liberal extension policies, not to shorten electronic filing deadlines from midnight to 5 pm. #AppellateMastodon https://press.coop/@Reuters/110306903507146634
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If the Third Circuit wants to promote work/life balance the response should be to have liberal extension policies, not to shorten electronic filing deadlines from midnight to 5 pm. #AppellateMastodon https://press.coop/@Reuters/110306903507146634
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If the Third Circuit wants to promote work/life balance the response should be to have liberal extension policies, not to shorten electronic filing deadlines from midnight to 5 pm. #AppellateMastodon https://press.coop/@Reuters/110306903507146634
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This is the kind of scholarship that I'm here for. The authors take the long-settled criminal legal concepts of felony murder and accomplice liability and expose them for what they are: racist in application and in conception. Quote follows. /1
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This is the kind of scholarship that I'm here for. The authors take the long-settled criminal legal concepts of felony murder and accomplice liability and expose them for what they are: racist in application and in conception. Quote follows. /1
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This is the kind of scholarship that I'm here for. The authors take the long-settled criminal legal concepts of felony murder and accomplice liability and expose them for what they are: racist in application and in conception. Quote follows. /1
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This morning, I woke up from a dream involving a law review article about Griffith retroactivity and Eugene Ionesco. How is your morning going? #AppellateMastodon
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This morning, I woke up from a dream involving a law review article about Griffith retroactivity and Eugene Ionesco. How is your morning going? #AppellateMastodon
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This morning, I woke up from a dream involving a law review article about Griffith retroactivity and Eugene Ionesco. How is your morning going? #AppellateMastodon
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An important decision from the MA Supreme Judicial Court today. They limit the "horizontal knowledge" doctrine. In determining reasonable suspicion, the knowledge of fellow officers may not be imputed to the officer unless they are in "close and continuous communication."
The doctrine had been criticized as allowing police to create justifications for pretextual arrests after the fact.
#AppellateMastodon #StopAndFrisk #MApoli
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An important decision from the MA Supreme Judicial Court today. They limit the "horizontal knowledge" doctrine. In determining reasonable suspicion, the knowledge of fellow officers may not be imputed to the officer unless they are in "close and continuous communication."
The doctrine had been criticized as allowing police to create justifications for pretextual arrests after the fact.
#AppellateMastodon #StopAndFrisk #MApoli
https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2023/03/28/t13248.pdf -
An important decision from the MA Supreme Judicial Court today. They limit the "horizontal knowledge" doctrine. In determining reasonable suspicion, the knowledge of fellow officers may not be imputed to the officer unless they are in "close and continuous communication."
The doctrine had been criticized as allowing police to create justifications for pretextual arrests after the fact.
#AppellateMastodon #StopAndFrisk #MApoli
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I ❤️ de novo review. #AppellateMastodon
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I ❤️ de novo review. #AppellateMastodon
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I ❤️ de novo review. #AppellateMastodon
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I ❤️ de novo review. #AppellateMastodon
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Wishing Justice Whitener a successful surgery and a quick recovery!
https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/?fa=newsinfo.pressdetail&newsid=50043
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Wishing Justice Whitener a successful surgery and a quick recovery!
https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/?fa=newsinfo.pressdetail&newsid=50043
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Wishing Justice Whitener a successful surgery and a quick recovery!
https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/?fa=newsinfo.pressdetail&newsid=50043
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Updating this thread to note that the draft is now posted on SSRN.
“Supreme Court Litigators in the Age of Textualism” examines 35 years’ worth of #SupremeCourt briefs to see how litigators’ use of interpretive tools has changed over time and how their practices compare to the Court’s practices.
Link here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4339838
#appellatetwitter #appellatemastodon
Abstract:
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Updating this thread to note that the draft is now posted on SSRN.
“Supreme Court Litigators in the Age of Textualism” examines 35 years’ worth of #SupremeCourt briefs to see how litigators’ use of interpretive tools has changed over time and how their practices compare to the Court’s practices.
Link here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4339838
#appellatetwitter #appellatemastodon
Abstract:
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Updating this thread to note that the draft is now posted on SSRN.
“Supreme Court Litigators in the Age of Textualism” examines 35 years’ worth of #SupremeCourt briefs to see how litigators’ use of interpretive tools has changed over time and how their practices compare to the Court’s practices.
Link here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4339838
#appellatetwitter #appellatemastodon
Abstract:
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Updating this thread to note that the draft is now posted on SSRN.
“Supreme Court Litigators in the Age of Textualism” examines 35 years’ worth of #SupremeCourt briefs to see how litigators’ use of interpretive tools has changed over time and how their practices compare to the Court’s practices.
Link here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4339838
#appellatetwitter #appellatemastodon
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In a significant ruling, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held today that the Springfield police dept's policy of detaining witnesses in locked police cruisers "for safety and security" in the wake of a shooting "constitutes flagrant police misconduct." As a result the witness/defendants' non-Mirandized statements were suppressed. Great work by appellate counsel. Springfield's police dept is an ongoing constitutional violation. #mapoli #AppellateMastodon Opinion: https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2023/01/18/y21P0881.pdf
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In a significant ruling, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held today that the Springfield police dept's policy of detaining witnesses in locked police cruisers "for safety and security" in the wake of a shooting "constitutes flagrant police misconduct." As a result the witness/defendants' non-Mirandized statements were suppressed. Great work by appellate counsel. Springfield's police dept is an ongoing constitutional violation. #mapoli #AppellateMastodon Opinion: https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2023/01/18/y21P0881.pdf
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In a significant ruling, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held today that the Springfield police dept's policy of detaining witnesses in locked police cruisers "for safety and security" in the wake of a shooting "constitutes flagrant police misconduct." As a result the witness/defendants' non-Mirandized statements were suppressed. Great work by appellate counsel. Springfield's police dept is an ongoing constitutional violation. #mapoli #AppellateMastodon Opinion: https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2023/01/18/y21P0881.pdf
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In a significant ruling, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held today that the Springfield police dept's policy of detaining witnesses in locked police cruisers "for safety and security" in the wake of a shooting "constitutes flagrant police misconduct." As a result the witness/defendants' non-Mirandized statements were suppressed. Great work by appellate counsel. Springfield's police dept is an ongoing constitutional violation. #mapoli #AppellateMastodon Opinion: https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2023/01/18/y21P0881.pdf
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what a great piece by slate. thank you, this is straight facts. #publicdefender #mentalhealth #appellatemastodon
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/public-defender-mental-health-trauma.html
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what a great piece by slate. thank you, this is straight facts. #publicdefender #mentalhealth #appellatemastodon
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/public-defender-mental-health-trauma.html
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what a great piece by slate. thank you, this is straight facts. #publicdefender #mentalhealth #appellatemastodon
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/public-defender-mental-health-trauma.html
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Yesterday I had the privilege of presenting research at a virtual workshop organized by the AALS Legislation section and @jessecross. I discussed an empirical project on #SupremeCourt briefing practices. In particular, I've studied how litigants have changed their approach to arguing statutory cases during the era of the rise of textualism.
We don't have much systematic data on briefs.
A few key findings and figures are in the posts below.
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Yesterday I had the privilege of presenting research at a virtual workshop organized by the AALS Legislation section and @jessecross. I discussed an empirical project on #SupremeCourt briefing practices. In particular, I've studied how litigants have changed their approach to arguing statutory cases during the era of the rise of textualism.
We don't have much systematic data on briefs.
A few key findings and figures are in the posts below.
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Yesterday I had the privilege of presenting research at a virtual workshop organized by the AALS Legislation section and @jessecross. I discussed an empirical project on #SupremeCourt briefing practices. In particular, I've studied how litigants have changed their approach to arguing statutory cases during the era of the rise of textualism.
We don't have much systematic data on briefs.
A few key findings and figures are in the posts below.
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Yesterday I had the privilege of presenting research at a virtual workshop organized by the AALS Legislation section and @jessecross. I discussed an empirical project on #SupremeCourt briefing practices. In particular, I've studied how litigants have changed their approach to arguing statutory cases during the era of the rise of textualism.
We don't have much systematic data on briefs.
A few key findings and figures are in the posts below.
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@rbphillipsjr I've settled in here. It takes a little time. Mastodon was already a fully inhabited and functioning social network—with lots of communities—before #AppellateTwitter started to arrive. The folks living here worked on the messy details for years. The complexity of what they built (post visibility levels, the federation system, letting hashtags control which words are searchable) is designed to foster those communities.
Oh, and there's an "edit" button. #Appellate #AppellateMastodon
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@rbphillipsjr I've settled in here. It takes a little time. Mastodon was already a fully inhabited and functioning social network—with lots of communities—before #AppellateTwitter started to arrive. The folks living here worked on the messy details for years. The complexity of what they built (post visibility levels, the federation system, letting hashtags control which words are searchable) is designed to foster those communities.
Oh, and there's an "edit" button. #Appellate #AppellateMastodon
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@rbphillipsjr I've settled in here. It takes a little time. Mastodon was already a fully inhabited and functioning social network—with lots of communities—before #AppellateTwitter started to arrive. The folks living here worked on the messy details for years. The complexity of what they built (post visibility levels, the federation system, letting hashtags control which words are searchable) is designed to foster those communities.
Oh, and there's an "edit" button. #Appellate #AppellateMastodon
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@rbphillipsjr I've settled in here. It takes a little time. Mastodon was already a fully inhabited and functioning social network—with lots of communities—before #AppellateTwitter started to arrive. The folks living here worked on the messy details for years. The complexity of what they built (post visibility levels, the federation system, letting hashtags control which words are searchable) is designed to foster those communities.
Oh, and there's an "edit" button. #Appellate #AppellateMastodon
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The defender urge to tell the truth and make the brief about the evil of racial capitalism. #AppellateMastodon
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The defender urge to tell the truth and make the brief about the evil of racial capitalism. #AppellateMastodon
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This morning I felt like it should have been Friday, but then I checked the #SCOTX website and didn't see any new orders or opinions issued today. #lawfedi #appellatemastodon
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This morning I felt like it should have been Friday, but then I checked the #SCOTX website and didn't see any new orders or opinions issued today. #lawfedi #appellatemastodon
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This morning I felt like it should have been Friday, but then I checked the #SCOTX website and didn't see any new orders or opinions issued today. #lawfedi #appellatemastodon
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This morning I felt like it should have been Friday, but then I checked the #SCOTX website and didn't see any new orders or opinions issued today. #lawfedi #appellatemastodon
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An introductory post —
I am a #LawProf at William & Mary Law School. I write about statutory interpretation, legislative process, and appellate procedure.
My most recent work concerns the interaction of interpretive methodology and choice of law. Also, I recently wrote an analysis of the proposed Supreme Court Review Act, which would eliminate the filibuster for bills responding to SCOTUS decisions. SSRN link in my profile.
#LawProfs #introduction #AppellateMastodon #LawFedi