Filling Seats on the Fifth Circuit
Sep 22, 2014 By: Jason Steed
Although President Obama has created Democratic majorities in eight circuits since taking office, the Fifth Circuit remains held by a Republican majority … for now?
Sep 22, 2014 By: Jason Steed
Although President Obama has created Democratic majorities in eight circuits since taking office, the Fifth Circuit remains held by a Republican majority … for now?
Jun 26, 2014 By: Jason Steed
The Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has ruled that Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. This is the first federal appellate court to issue such a ruling.
Jun 25, 2014 By: Jason Steed
In its Riley v. California ruling today, the Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless searches of cell phones of arrestees
Jun 10, 2014 By: Jason Steed
Here’s a good reason to avoid excessive abbreviations: judges don’t like them. And when you do things judges don’t like, bad things happen.
May 6, 2014 By: Jason Steed
Justice Thomas’s solo concurring opinion in yesterday’s Town of Greece v. Galloway decision asserted that individual states may establish their own religions.
Apr 23, 2014 By: Jason Steed
Here are a few tips for lawyers on comma usage in your writing!
Feb 21, 2014 By: Jason Steed
My fellow blogger, Jeremy Byellin, has a post today about Justice Kennedy’s opinion in Windsor. I don’t have time to respond carefully, with demonstrative quotations from Windsor, but I do want to throw something out there for people to chew on.
Feb 13, 2014 By: Jason Steed
It appears at least five states have taken steps toward passing what are being called “Turn the Gays Away” laws, which allow business owners to deny service to gays on “religious” grounds.
Jan 29, 2014 By: Jason Steed
Over the last several weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court has made two decisions that might seem somewhat at odds with one another.
Jan 29, 2014 By: Jason Steed
Bryan Garner has just published an article exhorting lawyers and judges everywhere to “cut the clutter” in their legal writing by moving their case citations out of the body and into the notes. And as a practicing attorney, I have to say: I think this is bad advice.