JURIST
DECEMBER 16, 2021
This tit-for-tat directive against Texas SB8 is the latest of the bold moves Newsom has taken and responds directly to the Supreme Court decision last week. SB8, signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in May, bans abortion when an ultrasound can detect a “heartbeat,” which is often before a woman even knows she is pregnant.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Share The Supreme Court rejected a request from Texas inmate Stephen Barbee to postpone his execution, scheduled for Wednesday evening, after a judge ruled that the state was not adequately protecting inmates’ religious rights in the execution chamber. In March, in Ramirez v. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.
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SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its statutory interpretation, deal with cases about Native American tribes, which traditionally have depended on historical and contextual understandings only weakly linked to the text of the statute.
Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 3, 2022
That paper contains a detailed discussion of the most common interpretive issues—whether the clause selects the tort laws of the chosen jurisdiction in addition to its contract laws, for example—that arise in litigation. I argued for the laws at the time of litigation. This post is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog.].
LawSites
AUGUST 30, 2022
Out of that voluminous record, you need to find the evidence that supports your arguments, then draft your brief citing to that evidence, and then double-check and mark your citations against the record and build a table of authorities. For the lawyers, it is an enormous amount of work on a tight deadline.
LawSites
JUNE 7, 2021
A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%. Ethics Guide Honored for Innovation.
LawSites
OCTOBER 4, 2021
At the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference today in Austin, Texas, NetDocuments is unveiling a powerful knowledge management product to automatically add legal research intelligence to litigation documents, through a partnership with LexisNexis. Enhancing Litigation Documents.
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