November 10, 2014 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Over the weekend I attended a conference in which one of the most interesting presenters was a New Yorker reporter who has written a fascinating article on why people falsely confess: http...
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November 4, 2014 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
The Maine SJC issued a slew of interesting opinions today, including some on my favorite topic of administrative land use appeals. But to mix it up and be au courant, first let's talk about...
November 3, 2014 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Per my last entry, I toddled off to Rockport for the biannual federal judicial conference. There were excellent programs and it was a great opportunity to catch up with many folks I hadn't...
October 30, 2014 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
A faithful reader has explained to me that the problem of footnotes not appearing in ipad versions of briefs (see earlier blogs) occurs only when the court rules require something other than...
October 29, 2014 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
The next session at the AAAL conference was on the state of the appellate courts and appellate practice, with a panel of two judges from the Florida district courts of appeals and a judge fr...
October 24, 2014 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
I am back from more peripatetic wanderings and at long last it is time for my download from the latest AAAL conference. The first session was on amici briefs, discussed by a panel incuding...
October 18, 2014 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
We are going to get to my download of the AAAL conference (starting with an interesting discussion of the use of amici briefs), but first, a shout out to Louise Thomas, honored as a "legend"...
October 14, 2014 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
So I am back from my appellate conference and was going to blog on all the interesting things I learned (which I will anon), but this morning I received a tiny little notice from Cleaves in...
October 7, 2014 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
So I read in the paper this morning that USM was going to stop offering French as a major. I was a French major (at Northwestern), so I got to thinking about what, if anything, helped in ha...
October 6, 2014 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
First, following up on my blog a few days ago (Genius!), the Supremes have decided not to take any of the cases striking down state mini-DOMAs. This was contrary to what the pundits were th...
