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Law School Canons: You can’t always “have it your way!”

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Editor’s Note: Avery Welker is a rising 2L at Mizzou and likely a future patent attorney. He authors a series linking law school canonical cases with intellectual property counterparts. is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California (in the Northern District of California). By Avery Welker.

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Kafka in America: When Judges Don’t Know the Law

The Crime Report

That sets up a situation in hundreds of civil legal cases involving small claims suits, evictions and other minor disputes, where the only individual in the courtroom who is aware of the law is the attorney for the prosecution, say the authors of the paper, Sara Sternberg Greene and Kristen Renberg, both of the Duke University School of Law.

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Hunter Comes Up A Donut Short of a Defense in Delaware

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the conviction of Hunter Biden in Delaware and how his nullification strategy may have backfired. Here is the column: The conviction of Hunter Biden on all of the federal gun counts created a surprising new precedent in Delaware … for Hunter Biden. It is, again, an open-and-shut case.

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Despite Some Progress, State Supreme Courts Still Slow to Diversify

The Crime Report

The National Center for State Courts wants to build an online job application portal for state court positions, similar to the portal federal courts around the country use to fill law clerk and staff attorney vacancies.

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Path To Well-Being In Law: Episode 19 – Matt Thiese

ALPS

In terms of law specific, all of my interactions with lawyers have been really positive. I know a lot of people who went to law school and decided not to actually go practice law and a lot of reasons that they cited were because of the mental challenges, the stress, the depression, that type of stuff. How are we doing?

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Hon. Judge Stark to be Appointed to the Federal Circuit

Patently O

Delaware was already a popular venue for patent cases before the Supreme Court’s 2017 venue decision in TC Heartland. Delaware particularly been seen as a fair jurisdiction where both plaintiffs and defendants receive a full and fair hearing. from Yale Law School in 1996., by Dennis Crouch.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

SCOTUSBlog

Wade just a few years out of law school. While attending Rutgers Law School in the 1960s, Frank Askin was a student of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Seven years later, Askin helped win Delaware v. Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. The woman who argued Roe v.

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