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Showing posts with label appellate practice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appellate practice. Show all posts
Monday, February 27, 2023

Judge chides attorney for not wearing coat

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An Arkansas Supreme Court justice earlier this month called out a professor-attorney for not wearing a coat in a Zoom argument. Associate J...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Sullivan publishes on ethics, criminal appeals, and seeking Supreme Court certiorari

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My friend and colleague Professor J. Thomas Sullivan has published, Ethical and Aggressive Appellate Advocacy: The Decision to Petition for...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Law prof joins 'Taps Across America,' honors Texas soldier, attorney, Justice Floyd A. Shumpert

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My longtime colleague, mentor, and friend, Professor J. Thomas Sullivan , joined Monday's "Taps Across America" remembrance (...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Appeals court reviews fundamentals of multiple liabilities in remanding business tort case

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A Massachusetts Appeals Court decision Friday reaffirmed the rule against double recovery, the finality of settlement, and other fundamenta...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Scharf laments executive disrespect for courts in immigration enforcement

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My friend and colleague Irene Scharf has written for the Human Rights At Home blog on "mid-case deportations" by Immigration a...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Teaching and learning speech and advocacy: Is online as good?

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The National Communication Association met in downtown Baltimore, Md. (All photos by RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0.) UMass Law offers or...
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Thursday, November 7, 2019

Gruesome bone-in-burger case: verdict remanded for reconsideration of 'reptile,' 'golden rule' arguments

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Willis Lam CC BY-SA 2.0 Reversing and remanding an order for new trial in a personal injury-product liability case over a $5 Wendy'...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Mass. App. remands textbook 'keys-in-ignitions' case on foreseeability analysis

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Today the Massachusetts Appeals Court published a clean and concise opinion on negligence, focusing on foreseeability as an aspect of duty. ...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Mass. appellate courts render two wrongful death opinions in attenuated duty and causation

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Massachusetts appellate courts have rendered two wrongful death opinions in the last two days, both favoring plaintiffs. In Dubuque v. Cum...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Brief argues public interest in social science research, FOI, while managing privacy risk

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Representing the National Association of Scholars , UCLA Professor Eugene Volokh , UALR Professor Robert Steinbuch , and I filed an amic...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Mass. App. upholds $2.9m 'actual malice' verdict over 'bitter feud' in local politics

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The Range Feud (Columbia Pictures 1931) The Massachusetts Appeals Court today rejected appeal of a defamation verdict.  The case is Van ...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Exemplary court decision pries open 50-year-old murder investigation

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Transparency (FOIA, open records, sunshine) advocates, public information officers, and judges hearing FOIA cases throughout the United...
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