I agree! I throw this article at my Contracts class when I teach the Statute of Frauds. It really makes them think.
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I agree! I throw this article at my Contracts class when I teach the Statute of Frauds. It really makes them think.
I remember hearing that. Has it gotten worse in Winter/Spring 2026, do you know?
Can anyone corroborate this?
Hello friends. I’m hearing from some wonderful junior folks that this a horrible submission cycle. Is anyone noticing something strange or aware of a shift? Thanks for anything you can share here or via DM.
We analyze this and other cases in a new paper available on SSRN, "The Hidden Law of the Adamant Contemnor." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Professor Scott and I understand that Tommy Thompson was released from federal prison yesterday. Thompson, the finder of the historic wreck of the S.S. Central America, was imprisoned for over 9 years for civil contempt and served 2 years for criminal contempt.
Most cited articles of all time and in last five years from @FloridaLawRev — neat to see it from this perspective. Great group of editors if anyone is considering working with them.
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Seriously.
"Just kidding, we don't want to dismiss our appeals voluntarily." - Trump's DOJ
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=538... [fin]
You can read the analysis from @elisebmaizel.bsky.social and me on SSRN or the California Law Review Online. We are still pursuing our rights to review the settlement agreements in our FOIA case [3/4]
Now, the Trump Administration has abandoned its appeals, perhaps because it recognized the EOs were unlawful in the first place -- or perhaps because the EOs accomplished the chilling effect they were designed to have [2/4]
Early in his second term, Donald Trump issued unprecedented Executive Orders against half a dozen private law firms. Four of them -- including my old law shop, @WilmerHale, sued and won in federal district court [1/4]
Crowdsourcing something … my Contracts class wants to know if Zac from North Carolina actually picked up the Liquid Death jet. Does anyone know Zac?
Inflation has gone up enough that we should just rename the dollar stores back to the old “five and ten.”
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=543... (coming soon to the Washington & Lee Law Review Online)
Also "The Spirit of Jubilee" papers.ssrn.com/abstract=510... (coming soon in the BYU Law Review) [fin]
I remind readers that there's a long history, tracing back to Roger Williams and others, that the Establishment Clause is not just to protect the state from religious influence, but actually helps protect communities of faith from the corrupting influence of secular power [4/5]
I point out in a forthcoming Essay that the text of the Ten Commandments that Louisiana and other states are using is not the biblical text, and strips away the narratives of Slavery, Exodus, and Jubilee that frame the Decalogue. [3/5]
Judge Ho would allow the sacred text on the merits, five other judges would not. A big dispute brewing, likely headed to the Supremes. [2/5]
Take a break from that boring tariffs case to look up the Fifth Circuit's opinion in Roake v. Brumley. Louisiana requires school districts to post the Ten Commandments, and the appeals court in a per curiam opinion thinks it's too early for a preliminary injunction [1/5]
I'll add here, as we did in a footnote in our complaint, that our research and litigation is in our personal capacities and not as agents or representatives of our respective institutions.
🚨 Law360 picked up on our FOIA lawsuit. ⚖️ @elisebmaizel.bsky.social and I want to read the Trump/Big Law contracts. 📑 In part so we can analyze them, as we did, in short form, here: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=538....
www.law360.com/employment-a...
Thanks to Bill Rochelle for alerting me to this new opinion. And I agree with Ralph Brubaker that this issue is growing into a circuit split and likely heading to the Supreme Court. [fin]
Judge King, who dissented in the Bestwall cases, expressed concern that the Fourth Circuit is becoming a "'safe haven' for ultra-wealthy corporations seeking to evade asbestos-related civil tort liability under the guide of the Bankruptcy Code." [3/4]
Can a entity file for bankruptcy without financial distress? The majority says that good faith pervades the entire Code but when a debtor is properly making use of the tools of bankruptcy, it is acting in good faith. Since this debtor was facing asbestos liability, 524(g) gave the answer. [2/4]
Important new bankruptcy decision by the Fourth Circuit in DBMP (No. 24-2109) -- relates to my manuscript "Bankruptcy Abstention, available at papers.ssrn.com/abstract=619... (looking for a law review home!). [1/4]
As always, enjoyed chatting with Angelica Serrano-Roman of @bloomberglaw.com about bankruptcy. I don't think a pardon goes as far as Nikola's founder thinks it does. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...
And here’s the link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Had a great time presenting on Adamant Contemnors at @nusl.bsky.social -- great feedback and now I have even more literatures to review and incorporate into our paper! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/abstrac...
