Chris Geidner

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2024-09-11 18:22:58

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Here was the district court's intervention denial: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txed.232527/gov.uscourts.txed.232527.49.0.pdf

2024-09-10 17:27:31

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Anyway, this is a big part of why I started Law Dork: Because sometimes I *do* think that something needs to be said — and sometimes I *do* think that I'm a good messenger for it. If you want to help support my work, today would be a good day to so. https://www.lawdork.com/

2024-09-10 15:01:35

Overnight, I wrote about an appalling CNN report that is premised on the idea that it is a “left-wing cause[]” to provide necessary medical care to transgender people, detained immigrants, or those in prison. https://www.lawdork.com/p/in-search-of-debate-fodder-cnn-pushes

2024-09-09 16:29:21

Time for the quarterly reminder that PACER sucks and should be free, and that, yes, I use RECAP to make docs free for all, BUT ALSO that I pay for the documents when they're not already free, so consider a paid subscription to Law Dork to support that. https://www.lawdork.com/subscribe
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2024-09-07 03:47:52

This is how out of control lower courts are. Even Judge Jeff Sutton, a George W. Bush appointee, feels like he has to explicitly justify … following Supreme Court precedent. https://www.lawdork.com/p/dick-cheney-endorses-kamala-harris

2024-09-03 13:32:03

Where are Trump and the Republicans on abortion? Pretty much the same place they’ve been since July 2022: Boxed in, and on the losing side.
Here’s my look at Law Dork at Trump’s week of flailing about on abortion: https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-gop-no-abortion-answer

2024-09-01 17:19:36

On Friday, a federal judge in Texas expanded nationwide limits placed on HHS's implementation of its healthcare nondiscrimination rule — nearly two months after the rule went into effect.
The judge is a Trump appointee, and the appeal will be heard by the Fifth Circuit.
Read about it at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/texas-judge-expands-nationwide-1557-rule-limits

2024-08-30 18:37:04

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BREAKING UPDATE: Judge Kernodle just issued a nationwide injunction against several provisions of the HHS ACA sex discrimination rule. This is not limited to gender identity on its face, so appears to be more broad than the prior nationwide injunction. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txed.230737/gov.uscourts.txed.230737.41.0.pdf
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2024-08-30 01:45:12

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@npub1t2h…nvc4 That's not why he recused. I've written about this elsewhere. He owns Unilever stock, which is a named party in that case.

2024-08-30 01:44:10

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I can't get over this. Reed O'Connor found personal jurisdiction because two companies that X Corp. wanted to keep as advertisers are based in Texas.
(Those companies are not parties in this litigation, on either side, lest you think I'm missing something obvious.)

2024-08-30 01:37:50

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O'Connor doesn't ignore that case, not exactly. Instead, he finds personal jurisdiction because two of the Twitter/X advertisers mentioned are headquartered in Texas. That is "targeting ... sufficient to establish specific jurisdiction in Texas."
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2024-08-30 00:55:37

NEW: Judge Reed O'Connor (N.D. Tex.) REJECTS Media Matters' effort to dismiss X Corp.'s lawsuit against them, finding personal jurisdiction—it's a doozy—and that venue is appropriate. Also, on the motion to dismiss, he finds that all three claims survive. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.383454/gov.uscourts.txnd.383454.82.0.pdf
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2024-08-28 21:44:53

BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit will NOT reconsider a 2023 panel decision holding that Alabama's ban on gender-affirming medical care is likely constitutional.
The decision means the panel's ruling stands for now.
Background on that ruling: https://www.lawdork.com/p/appeals-court-ruling-alabama-trans-care-ban
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2024-08-28 17:48:06

There are so mant Trump indictments, even the Heritage Foundation has lost track.
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2024-08-28 04:33:35

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Here’s my Law Dork report on the superseding indictment: https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-superseding-indictment-dc-election-case

2024-08-27 21:29:06

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The superseding indictment in DC, relating to Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, maintains the same four charges against Trump as in the original indictment, which I covered here: https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-indicted-on-four-counts-in
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2024-08-27 21:22:03

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Jack Smith added "private" to all of the co-conspirators, to highlight their clearly non-official roles — and got rid of Jeffrey Clark, the DOJ guy who was willing to be acting AG and pursue Trump's fake election fraud claims if Trump let him.
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2024-08-27 14:17:48

Two Trump appointees on the Eleventh Circuit allowed Florida’s extreme law governing gender-affirming medical care — containing a ban on care for minors & first-in-the-nation restrictions on adult care — to go into effect during the state’s appeal of a loss below.
Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/florida-anti-trans-law-eleventh-circuit-stay

2024-08-26 17:52:34

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2024-08-20 15:27:54

Following Friday’s SCOTUS order, you might have heard, from some corners, that it was a unanimous ruling against the transgender protections in the Title IX rule.
It was not.
I explain that and much more at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-order-on-the-title-ix-rule-explained

2024-08-19 16:01:17

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2024-08-19 15:51:18

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Where does that leave us?
The SAVE Plan is blocked, nationwide, under the 8th Circuit's order, as is similar relief—apparently on any basis—for anyone subject to income-contingent student loan payment plans.
DOJ is asking SCOTUS to block or limit that order during appeals.

2024-08-19 15:46:52

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Related: The response to DOJ's request at SCOTUS is due by 4p today: https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24a173.html

2024-08-15 16:11:56

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I am an independent legal journalist who has been writing about LGBTQ legal news for more than 20 years now.
Subscribe to Law Dork to support my work and keep up with the latest. https://www.lawdork.com/

2024-08-11 17:56:46

Let’s go! Overnight, Law Dork hit 35,000 total subscribers — free and paid combined. Thanks so much for making my independent legal journalism possible and for trusting me to do this work. If you haven’t subscribed, now’s your chance! https://www.lawdork.com/
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2024-08-09 20:22:34

BREAKING: The Eighth Circuit blocks the Biden administration from implementing the SAVE student loan forgiveness program. The court previously issued an administrative stay blocking the program. https://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/24/08/242332P.pdf
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2024-08-09 19:18:41

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And, yes, I know it’s a little thing, but, since this wasn’t up on the docket yet, I uploaded this so that people would be able to have the filing right away. That’s the Law Dork way, and another reason why you should consider supporting my work. https://www.lawdork.com/subscribe

2024-08-09 17:42:51

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To highlight that, I went through and detailed actions of a handful of the groups — showing you who they are and what they do with links. https://www.lawdork.com/p/project-2025-is-everywhere
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2024-08-09 17:02:41

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Here was that Thursday request: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.209.0_3.pdf

2024-08-09 03:01:52

Abortion is back on the SCOTUS docket.
Read about it at Law Dork — and subscribe now: https://www.lawdork.com/i/147489108/a-new-abortion-question-at-scotus
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2024-08-08 01:17:54

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Update: Texas has killed Arthur Burton. (Via Maurice Chammah, Marshall Project)
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2024-08-06 23:01:14

Tim Walz: A public school teacher who was in the military and supported queer students in the 1990s while coaching a winning football team who talks about his own family's experience with IVF and can lay out attack line after attack line against his opponents while still talking about the importance of joy.
What a moment. What a pick.

2024-08-05 18:59:42

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I am an independent legal journalist, tracking cases all across the country — and telling you about what I find. Support my work here and at Law Dork with a subscription today: https://www.lawdork.com/subscribe

2024-08-05 18:49:20

NEWS: A Utah city's attempt to moot out a case pending against it for trying to block a drag show (which took place under court order) by repealing the challenged ordinances fails. The drag group, Southern Utah Drag Stars, can continue their lawsuit. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.utd.139943/gov.uscourts.utd.139943.102.0.pdf
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2024-08-04 02:33:13

Purity tests. Control. Policing of bodies. That’s what that has always been about, and the outright hate and absurd weirdness that this boxing situation is bringing out this week is making that undeniably clear as people just flat-out lie and goalpost shift by the minute.

2024-08-02 19:44:02

"There are no trans athletes at the Paris Olympics.
So bigots manufactured them."
Thank you, Katelyn, for writing this.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-boxer-imane-khelif-anti-trans-rcna164721

2024-07-31 21:56:15

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Beyond that question, the Eleventh Circuit just blocked a federal rule with no reasoning, 24 hours after a Trump appointee issued a 122-page ruling denying that request.
With this ruling, the Title IX rule — due to go into effect on Thursday — is currently blocked in at least 26 states:
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2024-07-31 17:38:40

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UPDATE: DOJ filed its opposition to the Eleventh Circuit request sought by Alabama et al. for an "administrative injunction" after being denied an injunction by the district court in their Title IX rule challenge. DOJ basically says, "Uh, no?" https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.87955/gov.uscourts.ca11.87955.13.0.pdf
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2024-07-31 04:03:15

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Here's my Law Dork report on today's Title IX rule ruling out of Alabama: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-axon-title-ix-ruling

2024-07-31 03:59:00

NEW: Judge Annemarie Axon, a Trump appointee, became the first judge to reject a request to block the Biden administration's Title IX sex discrimination rule on Tuesday. She did so in a ruling that harshly critiqued the arguments made by the Alabama-led plaintiffs. https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-axon-title-ix-ruling

2024-07-29 03:14:35

Just a few thoughts on the emptiness of JD Vance tonight. https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-emptiness-of-jd-vance

2024-07-25 20:32:29

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Sippel, a senior judge and Clinton appointee, more or less writes, "Well, all of these other judges are blocking the rule, so that, in and of itself shows that the challengers have a 'fair chance' of winning."
This is reasoning that no Trump appointee would ever use.
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2024-07-24 18:49:25

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This is, essentially, the Reagan and Trump appointees against the GWB and Dem appointees. (A not-irregular occurrence.) Judge Elrod was the only GWB appointee to join the far-right 9-7 majority.
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2024-07-24 17:11:06

We have a new entrant in the "district court judges mad at the Fifth Circuit due to its judges' treatment of district court judges regarding transfer orders" genre of district court orders. This one comes in SpaceX's NLRB challenge and includes ALL CAPS. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.1946370/gov.uscourts.txsd.1946370.131.0.pdf
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2024-07-19 20:01:39

Over the past week, I've brought you a lot at Law Dork — following the Title IX rule challenges unlike anyone else, as well as tracking Trump cases, the death penalty, and voting rights litigation at all levels of our courts. Subscribe now: https://www.lawdork.com/
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2024-07-19 17:26:59

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tl;dr: Broomes's injunction blocks the Title IX rule in nearly 700 colleges across U.S. — https://www.lawdork.com/p/kansas-title-ix-injunction-colleges — and any K-12 schools with Young America’s Foundation, Female Athletes United, or Moms for Liberty members. But it will not extend to the full counties, as MFL sought.

2024-07-18 19:17:45

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Yes, as others have pointed out, Part II.B comes pretty close to the merits, but I don’t think it addresses the full scope of the complaint or definitively resolves the merits.
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2024-07-18 19:02:32

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Mathis, a Biden appointee, dissents, arguing the panel failed to follow SCOTUS and Sixth Circuit precedent.
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2024-07-18 14:42:50

BREAKING: The full Fifth Circuit, on a 13-6 vote, upholds Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting by those convicted of any of a number of felonies. A prior three-judge panel had held that the ban violates the 8th Amendment. The full court rejected that. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.190884/gov.uscourts.ca5.190884.307.1.pdf
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2024-07-17 22:39:27

Also at Law Dork today, more on Tuesday's stay of execution from SCOTUS: https://www.lawdork.com/i/146722290/stay-of-execution
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2024-07-17 19:55:16

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The only good news here, to the extent there is any, is that the merits appeal of the preliminary injunction is going to a different panel. Even as to that, though, the "expedited" appeal won't even be heard until October.
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2024-07-16 00:28:59

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Here’s my report at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/cannon-dismisses-mar-a-lago-case

2024-07-12 22:27:48

BREAKING: Far-right extremist group Moms for Liberty seeks order blocking federal LGBTQ school protections nationwide.
New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/moms-for-liberty-seeks-order-blocking
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2024-07-10 16:16:59

There's no one doing what I'm doing at Law Dork.
That's because I've spent the past 20+ years working to build up my expertise — and also gaining credibility with you all by telling you directly what I'm seeing and thinking (and posting the documents).
Subscribe now to support this essential work: https://www.lawdork.com/

2024-07-10 16:06:42

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I have been covering the Title IX rule challenges in depth at Law Dork. Please check out my coverage and subscribe to Law Dork to support my independent legal journalism.
I collected my reports here: https://www.lawdork.com/t/title-ix-rule

2024-07-09 16:52:15

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Subscribe to Law Dork to keep up with what happens here: https://www.lawdork.com/

2024-07-04 22:35:24

Judge John Broomes, a Trump appointee, issued a nationwide Title IX rule injunction covering all children of "Moms for Liberty" members this week. That's bad enough, but the procedural/notice mess he made of it is also really absurd: https://www.lawdork.com/i/146289012/the-latest-title-ix-rule-ruling
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2024-07-04 03:46:32

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Here's the 2-1 panel opinion, which was vacated with this evening's en banc grant. Duncan had dissented back in June, and Mitchell represents Llano County: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.213042/gov.uscourts.ca5.213042.164.1.pdf

2024-07-02 19:30:03

NEW: "Even where the court appears to give power to someone else, be sure to look behind the curtain and see if Chief Justice John Roberts still has his hands on the strings."
This afternoon, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-declaration-of-independence

2024-07-02 15:25:22

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In today's orders and as expected, SCOTUS GVR'ed — granted, vacated, and remanded — a bunch of cases for reconsideration, mostly in light of Loper Bright (Chevron), Rahimi (Second Amend.), or Erlinger (ACCA). This is what those look like:
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2024-07-02 02:16:58

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Here is my first. https://www.lawdork.com/p/robertss-majority-backs-trump-in

2024-07-01 15:29:40

It’s not good, folks!
I’ll have more at Law Dork, but first, you can catch me at noon on NewsHour and at 1:25p on the Georgetown Law SCOTUS Term in Review panel.
Thanks for following along these many mornings. Subscribe to Law Dork if you haven’t yet! https://www.lawdork.com/

2024-07-01 15:00:40

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From Sotomayor's dissent:
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2024-07-01 14:55:36

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Sotomayor is reading from her dissent. You cannot hear it because, despite having the capacity to do so, the Supreme Court does not livestream opinion announcements.

2024-07-01 14:43:36

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As to Trump:
- Absolutely immune from prosecution for DOJ discussions.
- Presumption of immunity for efforts to pressure Pence, but could be rebutted on remand.
- Discussions w state actors and Jan. 6 comments must be determined if they are official or not on remand.

2024-07-01 02:06:33

This is the 15th year I've been in DC during SCOTUS opinion season, sharing my analysis on social media and for various publications.
On Monday, we're expecting the final SCOTUS decisions of the term — including Trump immunity, NetChoice, and APA cases.
Subscribe to Law Dork now: https://www.lawdork.com/
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2024-06-29 14:27:31

Pleasantly surprised at how many people on C-SPAN Washington Journal wanted to talk about Loper Bright and Chevron this morning. Of course a self-selecting audience, but I expected the callers to be otherwise-focused.
Here’s my Law Dork report on the decision: https://www.lawdork.com/p/forget-the-imperial-presidency-john
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2024-06-28 13:56:50

It's a two-box day at SCOTUS, so we are expecting between two an four decisions.

2024-06-27 13:57:07

It's a two-box day at SCOTUS, so we will be getting a maximum of four decisions.

2024-06-26 14:15:16

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Here is the Snyder decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-108_8n5a.pdf

2024-06-26 13:51:05

As we await SCOTUS decisions, read my report on the near-immediate effect of SCOUTS's cert grant in the Tennessee gender-affirming care case. The first fallout is in Alabama. https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-trans-care-case-alabama-stay-request

2024-06-26 02:34:36

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We don't know yet whether SCOTUS will issue all of the remaining decisions and finish this week, but it is a very real possibility. So, get ready for a lot over the next three days.
And subscribe to Law Dork to support my independent legal journalism today! https://www.lawdork.com/subscribe

2024-06-25 05:57:12

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While I sleep, you subscribe to Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/

2024-06-25 05:55:45

OK, I got up at 7:30 a.m. CT, covered SCOTUS's news-y orders, went to an all-day hearing, came out of the hearing to learn we have W-Th-F opinions at SCOTUS this week, wrote, had a delayed flight home, wrote on the plane, edited, and published at 11:59 p.m. ET.
tl;dr: I must sleep.

2024-06-24 20:25:36

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — U.S. District Judge Liles Burke held the first two of nearly a dozen sanctions hearings on Monday in a judge-shopping investigation into LGBTQ civil rights lawyers. No resolution was reached. Law Dork will have a full report: https://www.lawdork.com/
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2024-06-24 13:48:40

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Prior coverage at Law Dork of the Biden administration’s petition: https://www.lawdork.com/p/biden-doj-scotus-trans-care-case-review
Prior coverage at Law Dork of the Sixth Circuit decision being reviewed: https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-jeff-sutton-ignores-anti-trans-reality

2024-06-21 03:31:04

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Here is this altogether as a Law Dork note: https://substack.com/@chrisgeidner/note/c-59631445

2024-06-21 03:19:25

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Burke also denied, for a second time, multiple requests to have expert testimony submitted on ethics — in response, recall, to a two-year inquiry that lacked procedural safeguards because the judges conducting it said it was “not adversarial.” https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.almd.77755/gov.uscourts.almd.77755.577.0.pdf
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2024-06-21 02:43:30

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The other two judges on the panel are Dem appointees: Judge Pillard is an Obama appointee and Judge Garcia is a Biden appointee.
Bannon's lawyers previously said they would go to SCOTUS if necessary. So, they could either seek an en banc order or go to SCOTUS now.

2024-06-20 12:01:26

OK, let’s do this.

2024-06-19 03:08:39

Shock! The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is treated substantially differently by today's federal court system than families with trans kids.
Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/two-courts-two-justice-systems

2024-06-18 15:31:35

Yesterday I read the Title IX opinions from Doughty, then Nalbandian, and finally Reeves. No one should do that to themselves.
And yet, if you had ever told me that a Danny Boggs dissent would be the opinion I would be shouting yes to, I wouldn’t have believed you.
But, here we are. https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-heavy-courts-biden-title-ix-rule

2024-06-16 21:26:49

🚨 My latest on the disturbing Alabama judge-shopping “inquiry” that has been targeting LGBTQ civil rights lawyers for more than two years, only at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-liles-burke-appears-eager-and

2024-06-15 23:23:32

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Then you should read this: https://www.lawdork.com/i/145471662/whats-next-in-alabama
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2024-06-14 22:29:03

BREAKING: Judge Liles Burke gives four lawyers in the Alabama judge-shopping inquiry until 5p Tuesday to turn over a Q&A document that they say is privileged. I expect a filing at the Eleventh Circuit well before then.
Background at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/i/145471662/the-q-and-a-document-show-cause-order
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2024-06-14 14:22:38

That is it today. With that, 22 SCOTUS decisions remain from this term's cases, including Trump immunity — which was now heard 50 days ago with no resolution by the justices — and several other key cases. The next opinions are Thursday, June 20. Subscribe to Law Dork in the meantime: https://www.lawdork.com/

2024-06-13 13:57:16

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It's a two-box day at SCOTUS, so we're expecting three or four opinions (or two very long opinions).

2024-06-12 03:36:28

It’s been a week since I started publishing my report on the Alabama judge-shopping “inquiry” that’s threatening LGBTQ civil rights lawyers with sanctions. It’s a huge story that could blow up any day.
Here’s my big report at Law Dork explaining it all: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-judges-lgbtq-lawyers-inquiry-part-1

2024-06-10 04:03:16

Does the story Alabama judges told about why one judge transferred a challenge to Alabama’s anti-trans law to another judge stand up to scrutiny? A recent filing certainly raises questions. https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-shopping-claims-texas-versus-alabama

2024-06-09 17:45:09

FYI: I added Part 2 of my Alabama judge-shopping report to the bottom of Part 1 — clearly delineated — so that the whole story is available at one link.
(Part 2 still has its separate link if you previously linked to that, but I just wanted link ease!) https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-judges-lgbtq-lawyers-inquiry-part-1

2024-06-07 01:57:39

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Last thing here: Subscribe to Law Dork. Tell your friends. Seriously. This shit is too serious, and there's a free option, so, please, if you're not already there, get on it. https://www.lawdork.com/

2024-06-06 22:48:28

NEW: The seven-justice, all-Republican-appointee Florida Supreme Court, including five Ron DeSantis appointees, expanded DeSantis’s power to overturn the will of the voters on Thursday. https://www.lawdork.com/p/desantis-worrell-florida-supreme-court

2024-06-06 18:58:04

Horrible anti-democracy ruling out of the Florida Supreme Court today, with the 6-1 majority effectively ending the right of the state’s residents to be at all secure in the election of their prosecutors. https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2435518/opinion/Opinion_SC2023-1246.pdf
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2024-06-06 16:07:56

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Santos motion: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.497086/gov.uscourts.nyed.497086.82.0.pdf
DOJ opposition: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.497086/gov.uscourts.nyed.497086.83.0.pdf

2024-06-06 14:38:13

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With that, 28 decisions remain (27-29, depending on how you count the Chevron cases and the NetChoice cases).
The next opinion day is next Thursday, June 13, meaning no opinions before then. They could, though, still add Friday for additional opinions next week.

2024-06-06 13:25:51

Federal judges in Alabama have been investigating lawyers challenging the state’s anti-trans laws for more than two years on “judge-shopping” allegations. If you haven’t heard about this, that’s not surprising. The lawyers were gagged and the filings were sealed. At the end of March, they were unsealed. Now, I have this in-depth report at Law Dork.
1: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-judges-lgbtq-lawyers-inquiry-part-1
2: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-judges-lgbtq-lawyers-inquiry-part-2

2024-06-05 17:20:51

NEW: LGBTQ advocates fight sanctions threat in wake of federal judges' slanted report.
Part 2 of my in-depth Law Dork look at a two-year, secretive investigation into the lawyers who brought lawsuits challenging an anti-trans law in Alabama. https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-judges-lgbtq-lawyers-inquiry-part-2

2024-05-30 18:09:59

BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts responds to Sens. Durbin and Whitehouse, writes that Justice Alito responded regarding recusal questions and that a meeting with Durbin and Whitehouse “would be inadvisable.”
Background on Alito’s letter: https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-believes-you-and-perhaps
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2024-05-30 14:13:25

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Breaking: The Supreme Court unanimously holds that NY's Dept of Financial Services potentially violated the NRA's First Amendment rights by threatening financial institutions. Sotomayor writes. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-842_6kg7.pdf
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2024-05-29 15:10:54

In 3 months, our video discussions at Law Dork have covered six major case topics at SCOTUS this term: mifepristone access, EMTALA & abortion, Trump immunity, gun restrictions, internet content moderation, & the administrative state. Check them out: https://www.lawdork.com/p/law-dork-video-scotus-rahimi-netchoice-chevron
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