The DJ has retired PJ Gilbert’s column: Beware! — The growing use of artificial intelligence in law and the courts risks replacing essential human judgment and interaction, while California’s appellate retention process offers voters a chance to evaluate the justices
Fear of Flying: Review for Civ Pro with Videos on LexisNexis
If you’re looking for more help as you’re studying for civ pro, you can find a series of videos on the subject on LexisNexis, under their Resources page. The Fear of Flying: Civil Procedure video series is presented by James
Alito’s Climate Recusal Exposes New Supreme Court Pressure Point
Justice Samuel Alito’s recusal from a closely watched climate liability case has renewed attention on how Supreme Court recusals can alter the makeup of the Court and potentially influence the outcome of major disputes. The case also highlights the challenges
Disqualification and Recusal — Disqualification Ripples and Review, Supreme Recusal in Climate Case
David Kluft asks: “If I know the judge should recuse herself, but I don’t want her to, can I keep my mouth shut?” —
- “Judges may be disqualified from a case for a number of reasons, including a
Juzgado o «Plaza» contencioso-administrativo, no cabe recurso de casación directo frente a sus resoluciones
Los Juzgados de lo contencioso-administrativo se han reconvertido nominalmente en «Plazas de la Sección del Tribunal de Instancia…». Un cambio mas estético que material y que no parece aportar nada nuevo, mas que confusión para los que estábamos familiarizados con
Virginia: Takings Claim Survives After City Burns Down Blighted Shopping Center, But Sovereign Immunity Wipes Out Everything Else
In City of Hopewell v. Shree Arihant Motel, Inc., No. 251193 (Va. July 16, 2026), the Virginia Supreme Court held that a municipality which demolished an abandoned shopping center by burning it down is immune from the owner’s tort and
Josh Blackman: Trump is Hostile to the Constitution and Uniquely Unsuited to Be President
A word about Fifth Circuit nominee Todd Butler–well, a few words, with the reassurance that this won’t turn into a deluge of posts.
I found one piece of Josh Blackman’s ongoing series of posts lamenting Butler’s nomination odd. (And I
Supreme Court: Compromise Decree Obtained Without Impleading Necessary Party Is Nullity
Having heard and considered the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the parties and after going through the impugned order, we are of the opinion that the view taken by the High Court is erroneous and unsustainable in the eyes
Incomplete Chain of Circumstantial Evidence Cannot Sustain Conviction: Supreme Court
A child is missing, a man is accused of raping and killing her, and there is no eyewitness. The pressure to find someone responsible is intense in such a case. The Supreme Court’s judgment in Santosh Gurung v. State of
PA Supreme Court: Judges Do Not Have to Terminate DUI ARD After a Violation
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided Commonwealth v. Worzel, holding that a trial judge retains discretion to keep a DUI defendant in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) program even after finding that they violated a condition of the program. The