The U.S. Courts website features lots of helpful info on what it calls, grandly, The Federal Judiciary.
Here you can get, for instance, Statistical Reports on all manner of data. One such report, Judicial Business of the United States Courts, tries to order all the facts so as to give you an idea — a
Kevin "They" Trudeau.
Kevin Trudeau must like getting strangers to buy stuff . . . with claims that defy belief. He seems to have done well at drawing money from people who want to believe more than they do believe. So well that, since 1998, the Federal Trade Commission has tried to shut him up.
Today the Seventh
Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009).
For those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
Edward M. Kennedy, Address to the Democratic National Convention, August 12, 1980.
Blawgletter adores people who ponder, and write about, Things That Really Matter.
One of those we admire most, Charles Darwin, told about natural selection. He wrote, when Queen Victoria ruled, that flora and fauna evolve in ways that fit them to endure the cold cruelness of our world — else other plants and critters will defeat them in the millenia-long battle
Today the Federal Circuit held en banc that a statutory ban on end-running U.S. patent law doesn't apply to "method" patents.
Congress passed the ban, which you'll find at 35 U.S.C. 271(f), in 1984. It aimed to void Deepsouth Packing Co. v. Laitram Corp., 406 U.S. 518 (1972), in which the Court held that the export of
The newest justice on the U.S. Supreme Court gets last choice of the 13 Circuit Justice spots.
Today the Court assigned Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor to ride herd over the Tenth Circuit, which covers Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming.
Former Associate Justice David Souter's spots went to Associate Justices Stephen Breyer (First Circuit) and Samuel
The nuts and bolts of motion practice often baffle new lawyers. Perhaps their profs felt that lifting the veil on so mundane a thing would demean both pedant and learner. Or maybe they themselves never tried to learn.
In any case, a key nut or bolt — Blawgletter forgets which — involves proving up the realness of
Blawgletter has tried in the last few weeks to use words that have just one or two beats. We hope you will do the same in the next week.
You will find, we think, that short words pack a lot of punch. You will see as well that you can go on and on and yet
Blawgletter toils on cases all across this, the greatest nation on the face of the, Earth. Some of them pend in, federal courts. ,Many, of those involve things that, took place in towns far from the court, house where we'll try the lawsuit,,. And ergo we, often find ourselves, — , , , — or
5 + 11 = Former Fifh Circuit.
The Fifth Circuit once ran from El Paso to Palm Beach Shores. On October 1, 1981, Congress sliced off Alabama, Georgia, and Florida and donated them to the birthling Eleventh Circuit. Fourteen of the 26 judges stayed with the old. The other dozen went with the new. And, as