Slave cases are still cited as good law across the U.S. This team aims to change that.
#NPR #Law #LawFedi #citation #BlueBook #slavery #courts #AppellateFedi #Westlaw #LexisNexis #LegalAuthority #CaseLaw
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1181834798/slave-cases-precedent-us-legal-system
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Slave cases are still cited as good law across the U.S. This team aims to change that.
#NPR #Law #LawFedi #citation #BlueBook #slavery #courts #AppellateFedi #Westlaw #LexisNexis #LegalAuthority #CaseLaw
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1181834798/slave-cases-precedent-us-legal-system
#caselaw #legalauthority #lexisnexis #westlaw #appellatefedi #courts #slavery #bluebook #citation #lawfedi #law #npr
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/
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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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I've got oral argument Friday, and I am at the point in prep where my brain is so full/fried, I am like
"May it please the Court." [awkward pause] [looks at notes]. "Eric Brignac for the appellant . . ."
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The Oregon Supreme Court just held, in Watkins v. Ackley, that Oregon criminal convictions based on non-unanimous jury verdicts can be reversed, even if those convictions were final before the U.S. Supreme Court decided Ramos v. Louisiana (requiring unanimous jury verdicts in criminal proceedings) in 2020. #lawfedi #criminallaw #appellatefedi
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Remember, there’s only 4 more ex parte TRO days left before Christmas. #lawfedi #appellatefedi
Is all of #LawFedi and #appellateFedi ready for Santa Clause and his helper Elfspresio Unius?
The natural successor to #AppellateTwitter is #AppellateFedi is it not?
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Hmmm...what do we have here? *gasps* A small claims case about a vacuum cleaner that went all the way to the #Nebraska Court of Appeals! Analysis of sole proprietorships & pro se appeals.
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Schmunk v Aquatic Solutions - https://law.justia.com/cases/nebraska/court-of-appeals/2021/a-20-642.html
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Hmmm...what do we have here? *gasps* A small claims case about a vacuum cleaner that went all the way to the #Nebraska Court of Appeals! Analysis of sole proprietorships & pro se appeals.
#LawFedi #AppellateFedi #ProSe #SmallBusiness
Schmunk v Aquatic Solutions - https://law.justia.com/cases/nebraska/court-of-appeals/2021/a-20-642.html
#smallbusiness #prose #appellatefedi #lawfedi #Nebraska