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Oklahoman in Virginia. Appellate attorney. I talk about federal court decisions. A lot. Sometimes the most you can do is the best you can do. [email protected]
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The flip side of this is an actual power-company employee could visit someone’s house to, say, check on a gas leak, and the frightened people inside won’t answer the doorbell.

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

There’s obviously no animating principle here beyond “they’re not straight white men.” Tubman, Chavez, and Evers all served in the military — as did Harvey Milk.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

Lawgeeks, there's a footnote in here worth considering where Judge Lamberth discusses how BOP's attempt to moot the case by providing care to some plaintiffs is flatly inconsistent with the express terms of Trump's EO, which forbids such care.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

2d Cir. rejects a class action (part of larger litigation) from a New York social worker who tried to file the challenge as the "next friend" to all viable fetuses who face a possibility of abortion in the state. Held: no standing. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Our FDA director has to lie to scare people and encourage covid infections in unvaccinated kids.

submitted 23 hours ago • 16 comments

4th Cir. suggests that the Merit Systems Protection Board, which is supposed to adjudicate federal workplace actions, has been so undermined employees may be able to skip to the federal courts instead. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/232...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

We would take our BB guns with us out into the cattle land and ravines and make forts and just wander all over all day, and the only rule was that we had to be home before dinner or they'd take our BB guns away. Ripped so many t-shirts climbing through barbed wire fences. God bless the tetanus shot.

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Here come the polygraph tests for leaking FEMA employees . . .

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Well, we're all going to die.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

4th Cir. holds that company owner's anti-unionizing message on an internal employee message board, including combative tone, was protected by the 1A—except for the last sentence, which could be construed as a threat and was therefore an unfair labor practice. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/241...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

9th Cir., en banc, holds that it was clearly established law that officer could not continue to shoot knife-weilding suspect after he was on the ground and no longer threatening as a result of her prior shots. No QI. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

2d Cir. upholds 720-month sentence of Larry Ray, the con man who preyed on his college-aged daughter's friends and their families in a bizarre culty extortion scheme. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

1. NEW At least 11 major companies are moving away from doing business with the law firms that caved and signed deals with Trump. Even though some of these companies are led by executives who support Trump, they do not feel comfortable having a law firm that caved to threats representing them.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

This is government waste.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

This is what "anti-DEI" means to the Trump administration. It's not "some corporate DEI measures are pointless or counterproductive," it's "women and people of color are presumptively unqualified for important government jobs"

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

It is literally impossible to *deserve* the murder of civilians. Pick any situation you want. Ukraine. Russia. Palestine. Israel. Literal Nazi Germany. Japan. This isn't something that can be "deserved"

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

So, one time, the DH and his bestie got sucked out into the bay on their paddle boards when the weather turned suddenly, and in truth they would have ended up ashore somewhere eventually, it's Linkhorn, but we had to send the fire department after them and he HATES when I say he got lost at sea.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

The death and misery Rubio, Musk, Trump, and their minions have caused is beyond comprehension.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is an extremely dangerous practice for everyone in the country, and everyone should be paying attention to it.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

This is the kind of thing that would be a full-blown scandal leading to the resignation of multiple officials in any normal administration. Instead, it is completely ignored.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Five year-old nephew once referred to cheesecake as "cheddarcake" -- "can we get cheddarcake again?" -- and we still call it that.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

OMG

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Today was a tough week, but I got off the train today, drove home, and my house was full of my favorite people. The DH, of course, but also sisters-in-law, their husbands, and nephews just tearing the place up. Baseball on the TV, margaritas on demand. I really lucked out.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

In five years after removing fluoride from the water, 8% more U.S. children ages 0-19 would get cavities, affecting 25.4 million additional teeth and costing the country around $9.8 billion. www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f...

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

JUST IN: 9th circuit rejects Trump admin bid to lift the court order that blocked mass RIFs and agency reorganization. Trump violated the separation of powers and usurped congressional authority with hte large-scale reorg, the split 2-1 panel rules. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

"i think junk food should be banned from food stamps" is actually saying "i think the SNAP/WIC programs should only provide ready to eat food to ablebodied people that can afford a home to cook it in and i don't think poor kids should have birthday cakes"

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: Judge orders Trump admin to pay $12.2 million to fund Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Lamberth (Reagan appointee in DC), says Congress has obligated US Agency for Global Media to negotiate an annual contract for funding. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Lawgeeks, here's the PBS 1A complaint, which PBS couldn't be bothered to link in its own post announcing the lawsuit.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I have been in the courtroom when Judge Easterbrook is in a mood, and it is *uncomfortable* for anyone not Judge Easterbrook.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

4th Cir. has a charming and interesting decision about who owns a set of Rockwells that were once lent to the White House and rediscovered when an heir saw them in the background of a Trump interview. Includes an unexplainable Beauty and The Beast quotation. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/232...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment