#appellatetwitter — Public Fediverse posts

Friends from #AppellateTwitter may remember the personal jurisdiction appeal noted in this footnote. #CivProMatters

As of today, I have more followers here, after about of month of active engagement, than I ever had on the Other Site after years and years. And my sense is that the #AppellateTwitter and #LawTwitter communities are still making the #AppellateSky and #LawSky migrations. We still need more judges!

As of today, I have more followers here, after about of month of active engagement, than I ever had on the Other Site after years and years. And my sense is that the #AppellateTwitter and #LawTwitter communities are still making the #AppellateSky and #LawSky migrations. We still need more judges!

As of today, I have more followers here, after about of month of active engagement, than I ever had on the Other Site after years and years. And my sense is that the #AppellateTwitter and #LawTwitter communities are still making the #AppellateSky and #LawSky migrations. We still need more judges!

As of today, I have more followers here, after about of month of active engagement, than I ever had on the Other Site after years and years. And my sense is that the #AppellateTwitter and #LawTwitter communities are still making the #AppellateSky and #LawSky migrations. We still need more judges!

We need a name for the property-protecting canon the Supreme Court used in Sackett, the recent Clean Water Act case, and I propose calling it the Sagebrush Canon.

The name is inspired, of course, by the Sagebrush Rebellion, which admittedly more involved public lands as opposed to public regulation of private lands. But the vibes line up.

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#LawProfs #SupremeCourt #AppellateTwitter #Legislation

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RT @EllieMargolis
Crowdsourcing a question for #AppellateTwitter: in a party brief (not amicus) do you ever cite non-legal information (empirical data, economic theory, etc.) in support of your legal argument? If so, please indicate type of case (patent, civil rights, etc.) in the comments
https://twitter.com/EllieMargolis/status/1648031170527916035

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:

@RMFifthcircuit #AppellateTwitter

"Do you do trial work?

A: Barely.

Q. Do you know how to take a deposition?

A. No. I have no trial skills, and I know nothing about juries.

Q. Well, you must know something?

A. Well, I know what I like and what I don't like. And I'm *decisive* about what I like and what I don't like.

Q. So, what are you being paid for?..."

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.

#AppellateTwitter #AppellateMastodon #LawProfs

I have been seeing some handles with appellate.social. If I want one, do I have to create a whole new account? How does this site work? #AppellatMastodon #AppellateTwitter help me out 😂

@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

#legalwriting #lawprofs #lawtwitter, #appellatetwitter, I'm putting together a team. Who wants to work with me on exploring @[email protected] for #lawschool and #lawpractice writing? Statement of Facts for a case, a memo, briefing! #AppellateMastadon #AppellateTooter #appellatesocial

@aramsinn this is very exciting! I'm going to start working on getting it to write a Statement of Facts for a case. Then a full memo! Then on to briefing! #legalwriting #AppellateMastadon #AppellateTooter #lawprofs #appellatesocial #appellatetwitter

I'm late posting an introduction, so here goes.
I am a lawyer in my hometown of #MarshallTexas - married w/3 boys #autism . My wife and I enjoy traveling, and especially #Cruising .

Education - BA at #TAMUC (was ETSU) & law school at #BaylorLaw. Have a masters degrees in public affairs from the #LBJSchool at #UTAustin, and in World War II Studies from Arizona State University #ASU and the National World War II Museum #WWIIMuseum #WWIIStudiesMA . Currently working on an executive LL.M. in litigation management at Baylor Law School #BaylorLawLLM .

I practice mainly in U.S. federal courts litigating and trying to juries intellectual property cases, and blog at EDTexweblog.com #EDTexweblog #MCSLaw . Devoted follower of #AppellateTwitter . #LawTwitter #patentlitigation #EDTX #WDTX .

I enjoy #reading , including #WorldWarII #UrbanFantasy #ScienceFiction #LOTR #StarTrek #Hornblower #Archaeology as well as #ArchaeologicalPorn (which in this context refers to Dan Brown/Steve Berry type books - not the paintings in Pompeiian brothels). Also enjoy #LandscapeArchitecture and our beloved #DallasCowboys but my principal hobby is #ScaleModeling with an emphasis on #ShipModeling usually WW II or #NavalHistory subjects. Have written two books on aircraft carriers and have a particular interest in #EssexClassCarriers .

I post on all of this on my personal weblog Puttering in the Study at www.mcsmith.blogs.com #PutteringInTheStudy .

I'm late posting an introduction, so here goes.
I am a lawyer in my hometown of #MarshallTexas - married w/3 boys #autism . My wife and I enjoy traveling, and especially #Cruising .

Education - BA at #TAMUC (was ETSU) & law school at #BaylorLaw. Have a masters degrees in public affairs from the #LBJSchool at #UTAustin, and in World War II Studies from Arizona State University #ASU and the National World War II Museum #WWIIMuseum #WWIIStudiesMA . Currently working on an executive LL.M. in litigation management at Baylor Law School #BaylorLawLLM .

I practice mainly in U.S. federal courts litigating and trying to juries intellectual property cases, and blog at EDTexweblog.com #EDTexweblog #MCSLaw . Devoted follower of #AppellateTwitter . #LawTwitter #patentlitigation #EDTX #WDTX .

I enjoy #reading , including #WorldWar2 #UrbanFantasy #ScienceFiction #LOTR #StarTrek #Hornblower #Archaeology as well as #ArchaeologicalPorn (which in this context refers to Dan Brown/Steve Berry type books - not the paintings in Pompeiian brothels). Also enjoy #LandscapeArchitecture and our beloved #DallasCowboys but my principal hobby is #ScaleModeling with an emphasis on #ShipModeling usually WW II or #NavalHistory subjects. Have written two books on aircraft carriers and have a particular interest in #EssexClassCarriers .

I post on all of this on my personal weblog Puttering in the Study at www.mcsmith.blogs.com #PutteringInTheStudy .

I'm late posting an introduction, so here goes.
I am a lawyer in my hometown of #MarshallTexas - married w/3 boys #autism . My wife and I enjoy traveling, and especially #Cruising .

Education - BA at #TAMUC (was ETSU) & law school at #BaylorLaw. Have a masters degrees in public affairs from the #LBJSchool at #UTAustin, and in World War II Studies from Arizona State University #ASU and the National World War II Museum #WWIIMuseum #WWIIStudiesMA . Currently working on an executive LL.M. in litigation management at Baylor Law School #BaylorLawLLM .

I practice mainly in U.S. federal courts litigating and trying to juries intellectual property cases, and blog at EDTexweblog.com #EDTexweblog #MCSLaw . Devoted follower of #AppellateTwitter . #LawTwitter #patentlitigation #EDTX #WDTX .

I enjoy #reading , including #WorldWarII #UrbanFantasy #ScienceFiction #LOTR #StarTrek #Hornblower #Archaeology as well as #ArchaeologicalPorn (which in this context refers to Dan Brown/Steve Berry type books - not the paintings in Pompeiian brothels). Also enjoy #LandscapeArchitecture and our beloved #DallasCowboys but my principal hobby is #ScaleModeling with an emphasis on #ShipModeling usually WW II or #NavalHistory subjects. Have written two books on aircraft carriers and have a particular interest in #EssexClassCarriers .

I post on all of this on my personal weblog Puttering in the Study at www.mcsmith.blogs.com #PutteringInTheStudy .

I'm late posting an introduction, so here goes.
I am a lawyer in my hometown of #MarshallTexas - married w/3 boys #autism . My wife and I enjoy traveling, and especially #Cruising .

Education - BA at #TAMUC (was ETSU) & law school at #BaylorLaw. Have a masters degrees in public affairs from the #LBJSchool at #UTAustin, and in World War II Studies from Arizona State University #ASU and the National World War II Museum #WWIIMuseum #WWIIStudiesMA . Currently working on an executive LL.M. in litigation management at Baylor Law School #BaylorLawLLM .

I practice mainly in U.S. federal courts litigating and trying to juries intellectual property cases, and blog at EDTexweblog.com #EDTexweblog #MCSLaw . Devoted follower of #AppellateTwitter . #LawTwitter #patentlitigation #EDTX #WDTX .

I enjoy #reading , including #WorldWar2 #UrbanFantasy #ScienceFiction #LOTR #StarTrek #Hornblower #Archaeology as well as #ArchaeologicalPorn (which in this context refers to Dan Brown/Steve Berry type books - not the paintings in Pompeiian brothels). Also enjoy #LandscapeArchitecture and our beloved #DallasCowboys but my principal hobby is #ScaleModeling with an emphasis on #ShipModeling usually WW II or #NavalHistory subjects. Have written two books on aircraft carriers and have a particular interest in #EssexClassCarriers .

I post on all of this on my personal weblog Puttering in the Study at www.mcsmith.blogs.com #PutteringInTheStudy .

I'm late posting an introduction, so here goes.
I am a lawyer in my hometown of #MarshallTexas - married w/3 boys #autism . My wife and I enjoy traveling, and especially #Cruising .

Education - BA at #TAMUC (was ETSU) & law school at #BaylorLaw. Have a masters degrees in public affairs from the #LBJSchool at #UTAustin, and in World War II Studies from Arizona State University #ASU and the National World War II Museum #WWIIMuseum #WWIIStudiesMA . Currently working on an executive LL.M. in litigation management at Baylor Law School #BaylorLawLLM .

I practice mainly in U.S. federal courts litigating and trying to juries intellectual property cases, and blog at EDTexweblog.com #EDTexweblog #MCSLaw . Devoted follower of #AppellateTwitter . #LawTwitter #patentlitigation #EDTX #WDTX .

I enjoy #reading , including #WorldWarII #UrbanFantasy #ScienceFiction #LOTR #StarTrek #Hornblower #Archaeology as well as #ArchaeologicalPorn (which in this context refers to Dan Brown/Steve Berry type books - not the paintings in Pompeiian brothels). Also enjoy #LandscapeArchitecture and our beloved #DallasCowboys but my principal hobby is #ScaleModeling with an emphasis on #ShipModeling usually WW II or #NavalHistory subjects. Have written two books on aircraft carriers and have a particular interest in #EssexClassCarriers .

I post on all of this on my personal weblog Puttering in the Study at www.mcsmith.blogs.com #PutteringInTheStudy .

I never did an #introduction post. I am an #appellate federal #publicdefender. Previously a proud DC resident who practiced in the Eastern District of Virginia, now living in Los Angeles and working in the CDCa. #appellatetwitter #appellatemastodon #DCstatehood #abolishprisons

Appropos of today’s #SCOTUS orders list, I have only this to say:

Repeal the #AEDPA. It is an abomination.

And it enables the worst aspects of the justices’ biases against criminal defendants.

#AppellateMastodon #AppellateTwitter