Benchslaps
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Benchslaps, Litigators, Pornography
Benchslap Of The Day: Your Client Is Winning Despite Your Best Efforts To The Contrary
You can see the judge's patience wearing thin as he is writing the words. -
Benchslaps, Jury Duty, State Judges
Judge Earns Scolding Benchslap For Weaseling Out Of Jury Duty
Federal judge lays into state judge for completely blowing off jury summons... and then hiring a hyper-aggressive lawyer to threaten the Chief Judge. - Sponsored
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Benchslaps, Richard Posner, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Judge Posner Defends His Benchslap Of Chief Justice Roberts
Judge Posner's harsh critique of the Supreme Court raised eyebrows; what does His Honor have to say for himself?
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Benchslaps, Legal Ethics
You Won't Believe How Far These Lawyers Went To Win A Big Case
The adage is "quitters never win," but maybe these folks should have quit when they were ahead. -
Benchslaps, Richard Posner, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Reverse Benchslap Of The Day: Judge Posner Smacks Chief Justice Roberts
Judge Posner does not have a high opinion of Chief Justice Roberts's dissent in the same-sex marriage case. -
Benchslaps, Depositions
Stinging Benchslap For Fortune 50 CEO And His Attorney
This is what happens when a judge just wants a party to suck it up and deal. -
Benchslaps, D.C. Circuit, Laurence Silberman
Bad Briefing Begets Brutal Benchslap
This D.C. Circuit judge doesn't suffer subpar briefing gladly. -
Benchslaps, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court
Samuel Alito Gets A Supreme Benchslap
Uh oh. What kind of trouble has Justice Alito gotten himself into now? - Sponsored
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Benchslaps, Fabulosity, Technology
Judge Shames Lawyers Over Midnight Filings In Awesomely Sarcastic Order
Sometimes putting pleadings off until the last minute will come back to bite you in the ass. -
Benchslaps, Department of Justice
Why The DOJ Got Benchslapped In Austria: A Conversation With FCPA Blog's Richard Cassin
Columnist Zach Abramowitz chats with Richard Cassin of the FCPA Blog about how the DOJ got benchslapped -- for fabricating evidence. -
Benchslaps, Crime
Lawyer Arrested... Mid Trial
Practice pointer: do not appear as a client's defense attorney at trial when there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest. -
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Benchslaps, Canada
The View From Up North: Judge Benchslaps The Cops For Beating A Black Man
Police abuses against minorities don't happen only in America, as Canadian columnist Steve Dykstra explains.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Benchslaps, Rudeness, State Judges
Benchslap Of The Day: A Judge's 'Retarded' Remarks Result In Reversal
A state high court benchslaps a trial judge for making impartial and derogatory remarks in a child custody dispute. -
Benchslaps, D.C. Circuit, Television
The One Where The D.C. Circuit Benchslaps The Federal Government
A federal judge cites the TV sitcom "Friends" to kick off her latest opinion. -
Benchslaps, Legal Ethics
Judge Throws The Book At Patent Troll
What kind of shenanigans do you have to be up to for every single member of your in-house legal department and outside law firm to be disqualified from a case? -
Benchslaps
These Guys Ticked Off The Wrong Bankruptcy Judge
He tried to be a patient man. And then they pushed him too far. -
Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Funny Headlines
Federal Judge Benchslaps Litigant For Acting Like An Ostrich
Pull your head out of the sand, unless you want to lose your appeal. -
Benchslaps, State Judges Are Clowns
Judge Benchslaps Fellow Jurist In Awesomely Feisty Footnote
Whoa, these judges probably shouldn't sit next to each other on the bench at court. -
10th Circuit, Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Neil Gorsuch
Benchslap Of The Day: No More Mr. Nice Guy
"At some point, this court has a duty to do more than observe, record, and warn. It has a duty to act."