Lucky to have had him (thrice) at @auwcl.bsky.social. Amazing professor and great hire for @gwlaw.bsky.social. Congrats @profferguson.bsky.social!
Posts by Reed Widdoes
Maybe it’s because I’m fresh out of law school, but we were taught that you cannot use “id.” for a string cite. I would use a full citation for all.
Historical SCOTUS question for @stevevladeck.bsky.social:
Before the Court started taking fewer cases, was it still the practice of the SG’s office to argue all the cases themselves? Or did other parts of DOJ argue cases that the SG either didn’t want to or couldn’t handle?
I have a strange feeling that sign will continue to be useful.
The symmetry on that cite is pleasant, regardless of the typo!
My entire corpus as an attorney—all of it, apparently—is the work of AI.
#appellatesky, who are your go to accounts for circuit-specific updates? When I clerked on the Fifth Circuit, I set alerts for each @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
post.
@drfine.bsky.social and @matthewstiegler.bsky.social are both good for CA3.
Excited to share the link to my oral history of legal giant Ted Olson, undertaken on behalf of the D.C. Circuit Historical Society. dcchs.org/judges/olson...