Feature
by David F. Levi, Amelia Ashton Thorn and John Macy
Vol. 105 No. 1 (2021) | The Courts HeldWe had an extraordinary election in November 2020. More Americans voted than in any other election, even though an infectious virus still stalked the nation. Immediately following election day, we […]
Judicial Honors
Senior Judge MICHAEL M. BAYLSON of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania received the James Wilson Award from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in honor […]
The Storied Third Branch
(Judge Jennifer Elrod is is pictured above with Judge Lake on the day he swore her into the Texas bar in 1992; photo courtesy Jennifer Elrod.) Born on the last Independence […]
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by Daniel Frost
Vol. 101 No. 1 (2017) | Citizen-centered CourtsJudging the performance of Supreme Court Justices is a tricky business. Nearly everyone would agree that the justices should sustain the ideal of “Equal Justice Under Law,” the motto inscribed […]
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by Lee Rosenthal and Gregory P. Joseph
Vol. 101 No. 1 (2017) | Citizen-centered CourtsWhat precisely is American federalism? In their seminal work on federal jurisdiction, Felix Frankfurter and Wilber Katz allude to a “dynamic struggle” between federal and state power, the ebb and […]
Feature
AMENDED RULE 37(e) OF THE FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (“RULE 37(e)”) BECAME EFFECTIVE ON DEC. 1, 2015. It emerged as a pithy and focused restatement of the best thinking […]
Redlines
Start strong. Our writing guru, Joseph Kimble, breaks down an opinion’s first paragraph to show a better way. Original Pending before the Court is a letter motion by plaintiff Amy […]
Judicial Honors
by Emma Roberts
Vol. 104 No. 3 (2020-21) | Judges on the MarchJustice Michelle Keller of the Supreme Court of Kentucky received the Kentucky Bar Association’s Distinguished Judge Award. The award honors a judge who has made outstanding contributions to the legal […]
A Finer Point
The sudden deaths of United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia ignited political firestorms regarding the appropriate timeline for confirming a new justice […]
Point/Counterpoint
by Kyle Hawkins, Clark Neily, Fred Smith Jr. and Jay Schweikert
Vol. 104 No. 3 (2020-21) | Judges on the MarchJudicial doctrine is rarely the subject of public conversation. So it was once for qualified immunity, which rested for many centuries in a kind of lawyerly tomb — largely the […]
