Fri.Oct 02, 2020

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Improving FTA/FTP Processes with Better Policy and Tech

CourtTechBulletin

FTA or Failure to Appear and FTP, or Failure to Pay is the source of a great percentage of warrants issued by courts along with giving great stress to those involved. I have been thinking about the civil unrest earlier this year and the place that failure to appear warrants seems to be involved. In this post, I will share some recent thinking about these warrants and some tech that can help?

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An Update: Dinosaur Fossils as “Minerals”

OilandGasLawyer

In 2018 I commented on a case in the 9th Circuit court of Appeals, Murray v BEJ Minerals, LLC , holding that fossils of two “dueling dinosaurs”, a 22-foot-long theropod and a 28-foot-long ceratopsian, “engaged in mortal combat” when “entombed under a pile of sandstone,” were “minerals” under Montana law. Well, not so fast. The federal court decided to ask the Montana Supreme Court to weigh in on the question.

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Sixth Circuit Practice Tip: You Can’t Renew a Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law Never Made in the First Place.

SquirePattonBoggs

The bar exam, so the saying goes, is like fording a river that is a mile wide but only an inch deep. Cliché though it may be, the analogy serves as a useful reminder that the exam tests candidates largely on settled, black-letter law rather than novel questions typical of law school exams. Most readers, I assume, will have had at least one experience preparing for and taking the bar exam, and most, I further assume, will have at least one line of questioning forever burned into their brains, r