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Posts by Raffi Melkonian

Democratizing the Judiciary: Why Judges Should Engage “We the People” Through Social-Media Platforms

I am truly grateful that over 2,200 of you have downloaded my new article. Thank you so much for the incredible support. I really do appreciate it. journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/appellate/ar...

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It’s apparently real, which is… not great.

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Sitting here in my house with no Medusa mosaic like a chump

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The Apple is dead, long live The Apple.

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So weird that you would write a sheet about how american cities are especially congested and not ask why that might be so.

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YES! And lebanese armenians like me and your wife use French loan words, which are (a) better and (b) not at all Russian!

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Deep cut version of the dream: I do have a full legal vocabulary in Armenian, but the panel all speaks Eastern Armenian and I have no idea what they’re saying.

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50% chance I dream tonight that I need to deliver my oral argument next week in Armenian (which I speak, but not with legal words!)

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Ha!

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Trump says his life was better before he became president.

Dude, everyone's lives were better before you became president…

Everyone’s.

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Presumably also a member of the third amendment interest group

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Their annual report presumably:

“Our Board is made up of Nine Members, who we call the Nazgûl, headed by the chairman, the Witch-king of Angmar.”

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I’ve come to the conclusion they know and they’re fine with it

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I’m guessing korematsu is on the other side?

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Plessy AND dred scott.

New idea, mug with all the cases holding that rules are claims processing and not jurisdictional rules.

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The 2024 election, if ducks were bad

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Yes. She’s now married to former Texas SG Keller.

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The return of Londonophobia Reflections on an ancient prejudice

“London is not a liberal city. It is liberalism. The place itself-with its non-linear streets, its architectural farrago, its chalk-and-cheese neighbourhoods-is what happens when lots of individual choices accrue over centuries…The result is, and always has been, a city with all the right enemies.”

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Of course no one tells Alito anything, but I can imagine the lawyer/Justice Jackson kind of frowning.

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JUSTICE ALITO:
Suppose a company
Heritage Reporting Corporation
Official - Subject to Final Review
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structures its delivery drivers so that Driver
1 drives 10 hours on an intrastate leg. Then
Driver 2 drives one minute across an interstate
border.
Then Driver 3 completes the journey
with another 10-hour intrastate drive. Each
driver uses a different vehicle.
Is Driver 2 the only person covered by
the exemption?

JUSTICE ALITO: Suppose a company Heritage Reporting Corporation Official - Subject to Final Review 18 structures its delivery drivers so that Driver 1 drives 10 hours on an intrastate leg. Then Driver 2 drives one minute across an interstate border. Then Driver 3 completes the journey with another 10-hour intrastate drive. Each driver uses a different vehicle. Is Driver 2 the only person covered by the exemption?

A few minutes later Justice Alito jumps in. He too has a really good hypo. But it is literally the same hypo Justice Jackson just posed. /3

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Under your rule, says Justice Jackson, worker 2 is exempt from the FAA, the other two aren’t. Weird!

So the lawyer answers and we move on. /2

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I was reading the Flowers arbitration argument during the chess tournament, and I found this very funny.

Justice Jackson asks a really good hypothetical question:

Let’s say Worker 1 drives bread in Kansas. Worker 2 drives bread across border. Worker 3 drives bread in Colorado. /1

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Scene: a kid has somehow incurred a physical injury. Coach consoling them

Coach: “are you ok son?”

Kid: I’m good I’m good.

Coach: “the more important question. Can YOU PLAY CHESS!”

Kid: “I can do it!”

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No all ages, and the number can’t be counted.

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I’m fairly confident this day will live on in legend in this hotel’s collective memory, if the hotel somehow survives literally 600 crazed children. Just getting the Chikfila nugget crumbs out from under the carpets….

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It would help if this thing had a catchy name.

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lol, just overheard from a group of parents “she’s bringing the Prosecco now.”

Madame, you are doing chess tournaments differently than I am.

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Like it’s hard to describe how beloved HEB is here, but it’s as if a folk hero were a grocery store.

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Fighting with HEB is like fighting with the Pope, except HEB might have more moral authority in Texas.

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Wow, just saw the scotus story. That’s something else.

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