Already moved to YouTube TV. Oh well…

Please tell me I can switch to YouTubeTV. I really want to watch TV.

Taking a break from The Horrors tonight, thanks

It feels like the First Amendment might prevent you from doing that.

Mississippi wants you to scan your license to access BlueSky. Meanwhile, in the UK you scan your face and it “estimates” your age.

I have one hour of work to do before I leave to go on vacation. I know I should do it today and leave my laptop at home. But I am incapable. I know there’s no universe where I’m not furiously typing away in an airport tomorrow.

I have billed 2400 hours before. I’ve actually done it more than once. It’s totally unsustainable even when the market is good. It’s a professional death sentence if the market is bad. Maybe in big law you can focus on one, single matter that takes up that much time.

Getting in the mood for my UK trip.

I’d like to congratulate me on making it through a four day week, so I can now go on a 10 day vacation.

I can attest @matthewstiegler.bsky.social was tremendously helpful, just like @carlcecere.bsky.social has been in the past.

Maybe I should post on BlueSky more. Obviously trying to save the dwindling post count.

The Fourth Circuit’s circuit mediator wants a mediation statement. This was not part of the deal. No one told me that I would have to go back to drafting mediation statements.

So Bondi is obviously misrepresenting § 546. But let’s not miss the fact that she fired the FAUSA, but that doesn’t seem to nullify her appointment, which is kind of a hilarious outcome.

Thom Tillis can’t even get this right. You can’t congratulate the team that beat the Hurricanes.

Going to start demanding $10,000,000,000 in every case regardless of actual damages.

Them: what did you and your wife give each other for your anniversary? Us:

No. She’s not. What’s she swinging between? The status quo and conservative grievance? That’s not a swing vote. Next question?

The airport at 4:30 AM is a feral place. Who plays corn hole at 4:30?

How many advanced degrees does it take to book a flight with my Delta companion pass? Wife and I have been at it for half an hour with no success.

In today's Federal Circuit dump: A case where The Broad Institute challenges the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Filing a brief about "Broad's challenge to the Board" is a proofreading nightmare, and I'll dream about this for a week.

I’m late to the party, but I just listened to the Mahmoud argument. What’s the point of an argument like that anymore? It’s just the justices playing cat and mouse with the lawyers.

So does the American pope get to vote in the 2026 or 2028 US elections?

Using Word’s “Read Aloud” function to finish out a brief. It keeps mispronouncing my client’s name, and that’s causing me a lot of distress.

I wanted a subscription to Nintendo Power so bad

Judge Wilkinson uses a lot of flowery prose. And I usually don’t mind. But I don’t think I like this? It feels…weird.

1: Hey, why'd you know about that case? Me: Well I read them all for fun. 1: I see.

Opening his spot on Judiciary is huge, especially since the Democrats insist on staffing committees in the dumbest way

Opening some Kerrygold to put on bread like we are Vanderbilts.

Finally listening to yesterday's free exercise clause case. it's going to be 6-3, but in any other area the case would be an unremarkable denial of a PI for failure to carry the burden. Weird how rules get thrown out when the topic is "interesting" enough

I have a story about due process in a mass adjudicatory setting. A while back, there was this group called the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints that had a compound in rural Texas. Well these FLDS folks dressed funny (like bonnets and long dresses and suspenders and corncob pipes funny).

New collateral order just dropped

Honestly not sure how I wrote before I could ask ChatGPT to spice up my verb choice.

Discover: what if your American Express came with no perks?

The North Carolina Supreme Court resolves the Griffin election protests…but not the election. The “incomplete registration” voters, of which there were 60,000, get to stay in. Military and overseas voters have 30 calendar days to cure. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...

Wasn’t the 104% price increase going to pretty much accomplish the same thing?

It’s wild what turning a brief over to a fresh set of eyes can do.

I had ChatGPT turn my headshot into a muppet. I am obviously the most creative person alive.

Only speaking to my wife after I’ve had a chance to run what she says through AI to determine if she’s threatening me.

Pro tip: If stocks go down 10% then up 10% then down 10% then up 10%, they’re still down 2% because most people don’t know how math works.

Bold to think that the Treasury will be around in 10 years

Same

So I got up from my desk after a stressful day and told my wife I was going to grab a beer to decompress and disassociate. Then I opened the news. I think I need to disassociate from my disassociating time.

Fair…to…whom? The…government?

So, the invitations to the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference went out today. Yet, somehow, most of the rooms are already sold out?

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: The Fourth Circuit UPHOLDS Judge Xinis’s order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US by midnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I went to bed during the second half of the Duke/Houston game last night, assuming Duke had it in the bag. I am now desperately trying to find a way to replay the last 11 minutes.

NEW: As the Fourth Circuit today considers whether to block her order, Judge Paula Xinis releases a strong opinion defending it, calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia's detention "wholly lawless" and her order "the narrowest, daresay only, relief warranted." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NC Supreme Court with a big preservation case. JNOV motions must match the specific grounds raised at directed verdict. General arguments aren’t enough—issues not clearly preserved are waived. How was this not settled? appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=... #appellatepractice #civilprocedure