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Don Cruse@doncruse.bsky.social |
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The only appellate lawyer who doesn’t have a podcast. My practice is in Texas state and federal courts. I used to have a real blog.
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Pwnallthethings
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Folks overfocus on the "what if drone strike opponent" question, but it seems to me the more relevant one is "what if President asks CIA to bug opponent's headquarters". Which normal people would correctly identify as a criminal action, and which, as I read this ruling, would be an official act.
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Don Cruse
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“If the player is an Early Qualifying Veteran Free Agent, the new Player Contract must cover at least two (2)
Seasons (not including a Season covered by an Option Year)…”
From page 232 of imgix.cosmicjs.com/25da5eb0-15e...
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Don Cruse
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Citing ChatGPT? “This was once revealed to me in a hallucination.”
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Don Cruse
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Yes. It takes a president elected nationally and Senators from 25 other states to place any single federal judge in Texas.
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Don Cruse
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Unless I’m missing something, their textual argument is so broad that it would also call into question the Legislature’s power to create Houston’s 14th COA. From the petition you cite:
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Don Cruse
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It’s also striking that Gillers is relying on his own (perhaps willful) ignorance of the facts to opine about what a reasonable observer “who has all the facts” would conclude. Obviously, that can’t be right. Covering up an ethics breach does not remove its stench.
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Don Cruse
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Any kids waiting at that bus stop in mid-January 2021 would’ve been standing there a long time. The schools were only beginning to reopen from COVID.
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the Mountain Goats
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You reach a point where a friend dies and you say: sixty-one! that so young. When you are in your twenties and struggling that point is hard to visualize - you feel like forty more years will be too much. May all who struggle today live in the hope of knowing that sixty-one is so young, so young.
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Don Cruse
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I momentarily forgot the name of the "TSA" and, stg, just spelled it out by remembering "tub stacking agency."
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Don Cruse
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“Kasparov lost this round in court because the Timeloop Idiot had already filed and won a restraining order against Kasparov’s lawsuit.”
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Don Cruse
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It was really close to them.
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Don Cruse
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Original recipe, yes. Extra crispy, no.
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Don Cruse
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When you 💀 in TikTok, you die in real life
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Don Cruse
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Billing 0.05 hours every 18 months or so seems like a practice niche I’d really enjoy.
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Don Cruse
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He should consider “abridging” his bad takes
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Big Fat Bartolo's Colon
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another great thing books do is they usually have a brief bio of the person who wrote the things in there, so you can get a sense if they are full of shit or not. more data sources should let you know if they were created by a total cretin.
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Don Cruse
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Is this Navarro opinion by Roberts the first "in-chambers opinion" the Supreme Court has issued in literally years?
SCOTUS has a page for them. It's empty (before this one): www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/in-...
Per, Wikipedia this might be the first in a decade: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-cham...
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Kashmir Hill
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I’ve been lurking in car forums for the last few months and saw reports from drivers of General Motors cars that GM was selling their driving data to LexisNexis. It was resulting in their insurance going up. Can that be true, I thought.
Reported it out. Yes. True.
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/t...
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Andrea Grimes
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it's Friday and this week took absolutely 10000% out of me so I beg you please tell me how your Roomba (or whatever) got its name
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Don Cruse
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“Having resolved the issue before us, we turn briefly to comment on civility in the practice of law. …” I would simply stop reading, walk into the woods, and never be heard from again.
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Helen Rosner
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Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...
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Don Cruse
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Popehat Divorce Law would be a *very* specialized practice.
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Don Cruse
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Had they taken this extreme legal position earlier in the process? (The state’s argument that “appearance of impropriety” is irrelevant without also proving some apparently high degree of actual bias?)
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Dr Lena H
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First day of orientation I’m hanging around Batts Hall (no relation to actual bats!) and see this large-ish shiny black bird squawking and attacking another bird for its meal. I go “wtf is that thing?” and a classmate responds, “oh, that’s a grackle.” I swear I nearly fell over! GRACKLES WERE REAL?!
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Don Cruse
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The “that’s why it’s the FIRST amendment” arguments always flip the bozo bit for me.
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Don Cruse
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This is "The Giuliani Gambit." May it end as well.
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Don Cruse
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Let that sink in
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Don Cruse
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The president can’t be an office-r because he works from home
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Don Cruse
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“Certifiction” is an unbelievably good typo
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Helen Rosner
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When I filed I expected my editor (whom I love) to be like Helen you cannot spend 1000 words talking about your weirdly Jungian diner feelings and instead she was like sure, fuck it, let’s run it all
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Don Cruse
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Have you tried rebooting the year and starting over?
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Don Cruse
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A fun thing you may not have focused on is that the rules don't require exactly 14-point, but just "no smaller than 14-point." So when you're trying to fine-tune, you can start with a font that renders too small (like TNR) and then define your styles to 14.5-point body text and 12.5-point footnotes.
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Don Cruse
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I don't know what led you to Century, but other members of that family (esp. Century Supra) look better in legal writing. I've sometimes used Century Supra at 14 point, and it works. When things don't look right, the other two knobs to turn are line spacing ("exact") and margins (go wider than 1").
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Don Cruse
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Paul Hollywood handshake dot gif
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Don Cruse
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With respect (and fond memories of bankruptcy class), I think it works the opposite of how you are imagining. A debt being non-dischargeable does not give that creditor priority to be paid before other creditors. The stay ensures that all creditors with equal priority will get proportionate payment.
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John Elwood
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I think we can all agree that the biggest news of the day is that Relist Watch was hyperlinked in a New York Times cover story.
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J.J.
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Y'all. It happened AGAIN. Stop relying on generative AI for legal research. Or don't, but then I'm going to use you for my CLE.
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Don Cruse
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“Esq. LLM” was full disclosure all along
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Megan E. Zombi
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Wait wait wait people "obsessed" with Hitchikers are mad that a program designed to answer a question for them is not giving the answer they want? I want to enjoy this moment more...
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Don Cruse
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I can’t see a Patriots ring without thinking of this.
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Raffi Melkonian
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I guess “look, none of these kids are gonna be grandmasters” is not the thing to say at chess class?
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Don Cruse
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Why not both?
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Don Cruse
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Twitter clearly has a deep understanding of its advertisers' businesses. All *checks notes* three of them.
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Don Cruse
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Do we know if bluesky has relaxed its policy against allowing heads of state to join during the beta? bsky.app/profile/bsky...
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Don Cruse
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And (thinking ahead) since anyone other than a private party wouldn't be a voter and thus wouldn't have an injury for constitutional standing... it's all been a dream, Michael. The past five decades of voting-rights litigation never happened. You'll be amazed how much it never happened.
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Don Cruse
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We’ll get ALL the emails when this becomes the FTC test case for vertical integration between big cloud compute providers and AI services that depend on them.
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Don Cruse
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Having a camera you love is a big part of the fun.
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Don Cruse
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Mr. $8-a-month is Big Mad at someone else asking $3-a-year.
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Don Cruse
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My old SCOTXblog account feels your pain.
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Don Cruse
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No, they can (and do) vote for people not nominated
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