Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases relating to the Texas abortion law, S.B. 8 (covered earlier here and here).One case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, presents the question “whether a State can insulate from federal-court…

Today on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Linda Mullenix’s essay, Recasting the Corporate Bias of Civil Procedure: A Neoliberal Theory. Linda reviews Luke Norris’s article, Neoliberal Civil Procedure, 12 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).  

The judicial saga surrounding Texas’s S.B. 8 continued today with a 113-page order from U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, which concluded with the following preliminary injunction:IT IS ORDERED that the State of Texas, including its officers, officials, agents, employees, and…

Now on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Steve Vladeck’s essay, Hiding Behind Habeas’s Hardness. Steve reviews Jonathan Siegel’s recent article, Habeas, History, and Hermeneutics, 64 Ariz. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).   

Yesterday the Supreme Court granted certiorari in several cases—two of which may be of particular interest…Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue presents the following question:Section 6330(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code establishes a 30-day time limit to file…

Below is a hiring announcement from UC Hastings College of Law:The University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco is conducting an open-rank search to hire one lateral tenured or tenure-track faculty member to begin July 1,…

Now that the calendar has officially turned to fall, we have two new installments of the Unavailability Civil Procedure Workshop to announce.  This semester, they’re happening on Tuesdays at 3:00pm ET / 2:00pm CT / 1:00pm MT / 12:00pm PT.…