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Baltimore insurance coverage and appellate attorney. Nothing here is a Firm opinion; it's rarely even a firm opinion. @LafCol & @ColumbiaLaw.
Nov 4, 2023 25 tweets 3 min read
#AJEI2023 Break-out 5:
The Supreme Court and
the American Constitutional SystemProf. Eric J. Segall @espinsegall
Prof. Stephanie Barclay
Prof. Samuel Moyn
Prof. Steven Vladeck @steve_vladeck
Hon. Christopher J. McFadden Moyn: Reform is in order.

On rights, Eric makes a.powerful case that the Court’s record is mixed. So is Congress’s, but Congress has historically been more reliable. On race, 1883 civil rights cases are grotesque. Today, voting rights, disability rights, etc. are Congress.
Nov 3, 2023 41 tweets 6 min read
#AJEI2023 Panel 5: Rebuttal
Hon. Shirley Troutman, N.Y. Ct. App.
@DanGeyser
@KannonShanmugam
Gaëtan Gerville-Réache We start with what rebuttal lawyers don't want to hear:
Nov 3, 2023 40 tweets 6 min read
#AJEI2023 Panel on A.I. Chatbots
Mark Davies, Orrick
Prof. Joshua A.T. Fairfield, Washington & Lee
Emily Colbert, ThompsonReuters
Hon. Herbert Dixon (ret.)* Judge Boggs of #CA6 asks ChatGPT to name his three of his most famous cases. ChatGPT hallucinates two cases and mis-describes the third.

Judge Dixon relates a story of ChatGPT hallucinating a judicial ethics rule, no wait it was a comment, no wait ERROR...
Jul 12, 2023 23 tweets 6 min read
Guys. Guys! GUYS! There is a published insurance coverage opinion from the Fourth Circuit. THERE IS A PUBLISHED INSURANCE COVERAGE OPINION FROM THE FOURTH CIRCUIT! It's time for a @RMFifthCircuit-style read through! https://t.co/T33g34nqwMca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/19149…
@RMFifthCircuit And it's absolute #AppellateTwitter catnip. Oh goody!
Aug 16, 2021 15 tweets 3 min read
With some prompting from @espinsegall and @hannnahmmarie, I give you: Our class-action jurisprudence is built on piles of academic dishonesty by one Antonin Scalia, a thread: In 2005, @Cato published a list of legislative priorities for changes to class-action law:

Mike Moller, Controlling Unconstitutional Class Actions: A Blueprint for Future Lawsuit Reform (Cato Institute
2005) available at cato.org/publications/p…
Aug 14, 2021 6 tweets 1 min read
I'm going to tell you the one thing Akhil Amar deeply convinced me of about what the Founders thought:
1/6 England was a historical marvel. A huge sea channel separated the island from its worst foes. Just a little sea military dominance could keep the entire island safe without much of a standing army.
2/6