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Raffi Melkonian
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Big abortion adjacent ruling out from CA5 just now. The Court reverses an injunction preventing Texas from terminating funding to Planned Parenthood. 1/

drive.google.com/file/d/1D8GgST…

* NB: There is a picture in this opinion of what I take to be fetal tissue.
Judge Jones also urges en banc review to hold that Planned Parenthood lacks standing to bring its claims entirely. 2/
Here's the nub of the holding - basically, that the Texas agencies are due deference in their decision to exclude Planned Parenthood. /3
This footnote or something like it keeps popping up. Justice Thomas's observation is clearly getting some traction. /4
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Raffi Melkonian
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I listened to 14 oral arguments in the Fifth Circuit in the last two days while prepping for my own. Of those 14 appellants, 8 or so of them gave the same kind of bad oral argument, and I thought a quick note about what's wrong with it would be interesting. #appellatetwitter 1/
So what's the bad thing? It's the stream-of-consciousness oral argument - where you sort of recite at great length all your many grievances with the district court, interspersed with the points you're actually trying to make. 2/
So I heard the following question maybe 20 times: "Counsel, the thing you just said? Is that part of the case presented to us?"

And inevitably, the answer was something like "No, your honors, but I'm trying to tell you how this all went so wrong" /3
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Raffi Melkonian
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Big CA5 en banc: reversing a $2.3 million judgment where the police hid exculpatory video before a guilty plea, the Circuit refused to reconsider its precedent limiting Brady.

This thing is full of 🔥🔥.

I start with Judge Costa's dissent. 1/
drive.google.com/file/d/1nXMjJO…
Judge Jones concurs in the judgment, but writes separately to suggest that perhaps it was the city that was wronged here, and also to blame the district court for not examining that question /2
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Raffi Melkonian
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This is a hobby horse of mine, so apologies. But - most NFL players aren't rich. They make less than a fancy lawyer for 3-4 years - maybe 10 if they're incredibly lucky - then they're left with injured bodies and a gap in their lives while they figure out what to do.
The Aaron Rodgers' of the world are exceptions, not the rule. The rule is the journeyman lineman who makes 600K for a couple of years then has four back surgeries.
You have to think of them like manual laborers in a really dangerous and difficult job, some of whom win the lottery and some of whom receive life-altering injuries.
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This ruling tonight from the Fifth Circuit is a big deal. Maybe the most important detail: The court noted that the undercover Planned Parenthood videos underwent forensic review and weren’t “deceptively edited.” This torpedoes a central PP talking point. drive.google.com/file/d/1D8GgST…
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1) Before I share my thoughts, I'd like to thank @technocrypto for his years of research. Everything anyone knows about state channels theory he thought of first.

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