The primary function of the appellate court is to consider errors of law committed by the trial judge. Advocacy in the appellate court is an art unto itself. John W. Davis, Esq., a great appellate ...
So last week was my week for feeling vindicated. First there was President Trump's return, which showed the New York Times to the contrary notwithstanding, that then developer Donald Trump's nearly ...
Today, the Liberty Justice Center and I filed our appellate brief in VOS Selections, Inc. v. Trump, the case challenging Trump's massive "Liberation Day" tariffs. Our litigation team also now includes ...
All appeals involve a theory of the case or argument. Some appeals invite imaginative counsel to go a step further and develop a theme—an overarching idea to connect every aspect of the brief. A ...
In polite society, it is rude not to introduce yourself, but if you are writing a brief to a Florida appellate court, the issue is complicated. The rule describing the required content of a brief does ...
Appellate writing is a distilled product. Because everything in the brief (the preliminary statement, what is included in the record and how the record is organized, the framing of the issue, the ...
CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. September 17, 2021 - Baz Luhrmann's 1992 romantic comedy "Strictly Ballroom" features the tagline, "A life lived in fear . . ...
No matter how good the technology is, a virtual appellate oral argument is different from a live one. No matter how good an oral advocate you are, your virtual argument likely will not be quite as ...
Students in Case Western Reserve’s Appellate Litigation Clinic capped off their semester with two major filings: a 60-page brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in a habeas ...
Two members of the Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals described to attorneys on Friday how and when to submit ...
From an order today in Doe v. Roe 1, by Judges Barry Silverman and Eric Miller (9th Cir.): The motion to intervene filed by Eugene Volokh (Docket Entry No. [22]) for the sole purpose of seeking ...
(Reuters) - The Justice Department wasn’t kidding last year when it said it was going to start exercising its power under the Class Action Fairness Act to police class action settlements. On Monday, ...
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