I need to chew on this a bit, but broadly speaking, the whole thing is gross.

Onosato looking very bulldozery lately

I would say this was a time-traveler making a pretty good joke, except that 1379 in Yorkshire is literally one of the worst places/times I would choose to go back to.

Kudos to whoever it was that showed up at the mediation center in a pair of matching lime green McLarens.

When @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social news hits my inbox.

This is 100% correct, and my summer research project on BigLaw & PE might need a new timeline. Aside from the various issues raised below, it's worth thinking about how legal services to portfolio companies would be priced. [N.B. I don't think that McDermott will follow through on this].

They got the pope’s message, I guess

1. BREAKING The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement admonishing the Trump administration’s immigration actions. The last time they issued such a statement was in 2013 in response to contraception mandates.

I think - just at a gut level - that giving law firm ownership to private equity firms is probably a bigger threat to associates' jobs and happiness than AI.

Wise counsel? What about that paragraph of total gibberish is wise counsel?

ChatGLP: a chatbot that Convinces me not to have these snacks.

I love (c).

Judge Oldham has emerged as CA5's main diversity jurisdiction hawk. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

Do enough litigation and you realize that most people are positively moronic about what they put in their emails.

The crazy thing is that he’s the one who is right in this exchange

So much of what Musk says is what you might understand if someone else summarizes science fiction novels for you (this is literally the slap-drone from Iain Banks' Culture novels).

Aonishiki (the Ukrainian on the left) is really good at sumo.

Time for one of my random gripes, which is that Veteran's Day should have some focus on the end of World War I in popular culture.

It’s one of the only cold days we’re going to get this year, so it’s time for a favorite stew of mine from when I lived in New York and Boston: carbonnade du nord: the great French stew of beef, dark beer, and onions.

Supreme Court did not seem very receptive to the idea that a Rastafarian man should be able to seek damages under a federal law called RLUIPA from Louisiana prison officials who cut his locks in violation of his religious rights: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

I'm a little surprised that Gorsuch was the primary justice arguing against a recovery in this case

Vaguely amused that the SG cited Politico rather than, I don't know, the Congressional record or some primary source.

Basically, the putsch ultimately succeeded, which is galling to say but that's what happened.

The whole point of insurance is that most people don't make a claim. It doesn't work otherwise.

This case has one of my favorite non-dispositive facts of all time - that the prisoner showed up to jail with a Fifth Circuit decision saying dreadlocks could not he cut, and the guards threw it out and shaved him anyway

Lamest opposition party ever

A 50 year mortgage would just cause house prices to increase, right?

Don’t get me wrong, this is nuts, but it’s also far more cogent than I’d expect, so I doubt he wrote it.

Pay down the debt by televising ripping these garish things off the wall in 2028 on pay per view

On a whim I picked up a role playing magazine from the early 80s, and enjoyed this letter to the editor complaining about an oped saying that computer games would never really be art. At the end, the author says “I know what computers can do, and you’ll find out soon.” Prescient!

I’ve realized one thing I’ve given the Kid by where we live is that he doesn’t exist under the constant threat of having to go Colonial Williamsburg if the weather is even ok

Listening to the Bankman-Fried appeal on my morning walk, and merits aside, that is very much a New York City style Appellants’ argument. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

Nice to see a per curiam win from SCOTX this morning for our firm on a Rule 702 issue. Could be useful for anyone fighting about expert admissibility. www.txcourts.gov/media/146151...

FTW

The jury trial, ladies and gentleman teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...

The funniest thing happening in Houston is that the personal injury Pusch-Nguyen has broken up in spectacular fashion,and Pusch replaced Nguyen with a guy named Wynne.

No. It's not time for aspics. Not today. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/d...

Got an email this morning with an article about AI potentially hallucinating metadata. Now here's a thread about a lawyer who used AI that hallucinated statements in an affidavit. Everyone should be aware, it's not just about fake authorities.

My thread for my not-so-live skeet of the tariff arguments. /1

I've been saying the Pope is just saying standard catholic teaching on immigration, and he is, but at this point I have to admit he's repeating it a little more & with more force than can be attributed to "he's just Popeing."

So that's a really good question.

Right. This is the thing Sauer doesn't get, in part because he's performing for an audience who doesn't care about that sort of persuasion (imo).

I'm to listen to the tariff argument eventually. But it's truly a zoom-out case: does it make any sense that the President has the power to institute any kind of tariff based on any kind of insane whim? And the answer to that must be no. Whether that's what SCOTUS will say I don't know.

The only person who has been seizing private companies through the power of the state is Trump.

I’m sorry but Cuomo losing after running that odious campaign is very funny.

Ok well, “I’m not gonna” is not usually a thing you can tell a judge in response to an order

Just a writing point, I hadn't seen this version of the cart/horse thiing before.

A case I litigated in the Court of Appeals is at SCOTUS today: I think it’s fascinating. Assume a plaintiff sues a Texas and non-Texas entity. The defendants remove to federal court. The district judge keeps the case on improper joinder grounds: the Texas entity shouldn’t have been sued. /1