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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 2d

Some of my favorite examples

Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 2d

Why does DC consistently elect awful politicians who remain in office for decades with little support? Because every Tracey Flick in DC feels compelled to run against each other and ensure a split vote.

Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 3d

NEWS: Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto announces that she’s running for D.C. delegate to Congress, becoming the second member of the D.C. Council looking to replace longtime Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. (At-Large Councilmember Robert White is also running.)

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe allowing law professors to engage with each other on social media was a bad thing

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 7d

Signing off for the fast, but it seems like this may be relevant
jewishcurrents.org/the-adl-cann...

The ADL Cannot Lead on Civil Rights

At its annual conference, the organization's Trump-aligned, right-wing Israel advocacy eclipsed its liberal agenda.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 8d

But pundits on social media said it was amazing!

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 8d

Call me old fashioned, but I tend to think rambling opinions with extraneous musings are bad even when I agree with the holding.

Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10d

I don't think her aggressive style in argument is remotely comparable to getting up and ranting about the legitimacy of the Court and morality of other opinions.

Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10d

No no, the Supreme Court justices are just one more sick burn from a law professor podcast or slate think piece from changing their minds

Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10d

I have attended a Lisa Blatt argument, thanks.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10d

At best, the client is ok with you converting an oral argument into an opportunity for you to make the case about you and your smug self satisfaction

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10d

How would this benefit the client at all?

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10d

Which isn't just a personal loss, but a loss for the causes you believe in in which you can actually effect change as a litigator

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10d

I've had a lot of people ask me if I'd just rant at Justices of the Supreme Court in oral argument. But my duty is to a client, and shouting at Supreme Court justices wouldn't help the client, me, or anything else even if it would make me famous on social media

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10d

There has got to a be several cases this term w a pre-determined conservative win.

In one, a lawyer should pull a Sen Whitehouse, who ignored a nominee at a hearing to just lecture abt FedSoc influence.

The lawyer should just quote Kav, and then read one ex after another of that being wrong.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11d

18 days later, Justice Kavanaugh would write: “If the person is a U. S.
citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10d

Law professor who lacks strong predictive abilities as to political outcomes mocks political commentator for same thing, tonight at 10.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10d

When people show you who they are, believe them

Ad from Ted Frank, who has dedicated his life to his view that class actions are a threat to America, saying that class actions hurt Trump

Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 12d

A reminder that if you are seeing a rash of decisions from long-pending motions in federal courts this week and next, it's because of the 9/30 cut-off for reporting deadline under the Civil Justice Reform Act www.uscourts.gov/data-news/re...

Civil Justice Reform Act Report

Gives data for civil cases in the district courts, by judicial officer, on motions pending more than six months, bench trials submitted more than six months, civil cases pending more than three years,...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 13d

Apropos to my recent vitality, I met with law students last week who couldn't believe I try to at least skim every published federal civil appellate decision, and do not listen to a single legal podcast or subscribe to any legal newsletters.

Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 13d

In a concurrence in a Title VII case today, one judge looks to ChatGPT in assessing whether a term is racially hostile. What could go wrong? www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 15d

if you're a law professor it should be in your labor contract that you're not allowed to become a public intellectual

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 16d

Second, in one of the rare challenges to a Biden-era pro-worker rule that the Administration is not collusively settling- an amicus brief explaining why a rule that protects migrant workers from unscrupulous employers is not vague or retroactive www.citizen.org/litigation/f...

Federation of Employers and Workers of America v. Noem - Public Citizen

The H-2A and H-2B visa programs allow employers to petition the Department of Homeland Security for visas on behalf of…

www.citizen.org

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 16d

What sexy topics you may ask? First, removal and immunity under the Federally Supported Health Care Assistance Act and Federal Officer Removal Statute. Where's the podcast on *that*? www.citizen.org/litigation/b...

Bradford v. Asian Health Services - Public Citizen

After a data breach exposed some of his protected personal information, Ira Bradford brought a class action against Asian Health…

www.citizen.org

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 16d

Have filed two briefs already today, so making sure 5785 goes out with a bang!

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 20d

But Raffi, I thought winning at the Supreme Court was the only thing that matters in law

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 20d

Bold: a party ordered to pay attorney's fees argued that years spent as a judicial law clerk do not count as legal work experience. Neither the magistrate or the district judge agreed:
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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