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CourtsFormer Biglaw Partner Ty Cobb Skewers Judge Aileen Cannon In No-Holds-Barred Interview
You can feel the judge's bias in her orders. -
CourtsMAGA Mask Mandate Opinion Vacated By Grown Ups On Circuit Court
You could say they sanitized the record. 
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GovernmentFL AG Takes Victory Lap After Eleventh Circuit Dropkicks The State's Ridiculous Social Media Law
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Morning DocketMorning Docket: 03.18.22
* In memoriam: A son remembers a legal giant. [The Pulse]
* Gagging the 1st: 11th Circuit considers the constitutionality of a law that imposes heightened penalties on a class of protesters. [CBS 12]
* The police are called on Yale students who protested a Federalist Society lecturer. What happened to fighting speech with speech? [New York Post]
* Texas is locking up folks without filing charges or giving them lawyers. No way this is legal. [The Texas Tribune]
* Turns out Pepe does not go to the moon: 500k lawsuit follows after an NFT buyers faces the power of ctrl + v. [Notebook Check]
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11th Circuit11th Circuit Rejects Sidney Powell's Latest Filing -- But Not For The Reason You Think
Paperwork is a real beast (like maybe a Kraken, for example). -
CourtsCourt Tosses Florida's Felon Disenfranchisement Law As Illegal Poll Tax
Your move, Eleventh Circuit! -
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TechnologyThe 3 Biggest Data Security Takeaways From The 11th Circuit Decision In FTC v. LabMD
What does this ruling mean with respect to your company (or your client)? -
CourtsMore Judicial Nominations From President Trump -- And More Judicial Emergencies
April brought not one but two waves of new nominees from the White House. -
CourtsPresident Trump's Eleventh Wave Of Judicial Nominees
Look for more confirmations in the very near future. -
Federal Judges, Politics16 New Judicial Nominations From President Trump
Who are the latest legal luminaries possibly headed for the federal bench? -
Federal Judges, PoliticsFederal Judicial Nominations: A Quick Recap
The August recess offers a good opportunity to evaluate the state of play in judicial nominations.
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Federal Judges, PoliticsCircuit Court Nominees In The Trump Administration: The Latest News And Rumor (Part 2)
These highly qualified women and men should be swiftly confirmed to the federal bench. -
Federal Judges, TelevisionFederal Appellate Judges -- They're Just Like Us! They Love 'Game Of Thrones,' Too!
How many other federal judges love watching GoT? -
Constitutional Law, Federal JudgesBattle Brewing Over The Privileges Or Immunities Clause -- Wait, Really?
Libertarians aren't happy with this Trump judicial nominee. -
Non-SequitursNon-Sequiturs: 05.19.17
* Holy smokes! What subject just led the en banc Eleventh Circuit to issue almost 300 pages worth of opinions? [How Appealing]
* I’m all in favor of anonymous blogging, but there’s no denying that it can be hazardous to one’s Article III ambitions. [BuzzFeed]
* It’s not just President Donald Trump’s handshakes that can be dangerous (just ask Justice Neil Gorsuch); he’s weaponized the hug as well, as James Comey learned. [Althouse]
* A high-profile visitor over at the Volokh Conspiracy: renowned First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams will be blogging about his new book, The Soul of the First Amendment (affiliate link). [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* Speaking of books, here’s Professor Lisa Pruitt on J.D. Vance’s (critically acclaimed, bestselling) memoir, Hillbilly Elegy (affiliate link): “I knew Yale law degrees were valuable, but Vance’s seems to be working miracles.”
* And here are some reflections from Professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on whether fear should be part of the law school experience. [PrawfsBlawg]
* Mark your calendars: June 14 in San Francisco, Battle of the (Law Firm) Bands! [Family Violence Appellate Project]
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11th Circuit, ATL Redline, Justice, Racism, Sexism, Women's IssuesWherein I Defend That Facially Racist Hairstyle Decision From The 11th Circuit
But make no mistake, this was a racist decision. -
11th CircuitCircuit Gives Us Bible, Star Trek, And Bourbon... And Really What More Is There To Life?
Drunk trekkies invade the courts. -
Morning DocketMorning Docket: 06.21.16
* Only two firms issued raises yesterday. Congrats to associates at Alston & Bird and K&L Gates. [Above the Law / 2016 Salary Increase]
* A profile of James Hamilton of Morgan Lewis whom Hillary Clinton recruited to find her running mate. As the story notes, he led the searches that picked Joe Lieberman and John Edwards so… yeah. [Washingtonian]
* Concerns over the looming Brexit vote leads UK attorneys to register in Ireland in big numbers. So much for St. Patrick driving all the snakes out. [Law360]
* Judge sentences elderly woman to prison who billed the government millions in hospice care for people who weren’t dying. In a way, aren’t we all always in the process of dying? [Courthouse News Service]
* The Eleventh Circuit will hear arguments over Florida’s “Docs vs. Glocks” law in an en banc hearing later today. Expected to rule that it’s the coolest name for a law. [CBS Miami]
* A look at the wild events sponsored by D.C. summer associate programs. [National Law Journal]
