Jul / 2025Nationwide Injunctions On Friday of last week, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Trump v. CASA, Inc., which tackled the question... Read More
Jul / 2025Supreme Court Update Rather than summarizing a single procedural or litigation topic in this post, I’ll summarize the recent Supreme Court cases that... Read More
May / 2025Required Parties In this post, I’ll explain how Rule 19, addressing required parties, works. The Rules establish a number of procedures governing... Read More
Apr / 2025Advisory Juries In this post, I’ll explain how advisory juries work. Authorized by Rule 39(c)(1), an advisory jury listens to the evidence... Read More
Mar / 2025Contention Interrogatories In a recent post, I explored requests for admission. This post shifts to a very similar discovery device, contention interrogatories.... Read More
Jan / 2025Requests for Admission Requests for Admission Requests for permission are under-utilized in many cases. They are a uniquely powerful discovery tool, yet many... Read More
Jan / 2025What to Do About a Disappointing Grade At many law schools, including the one where I teach, grading is covered by a mandatory curve. By definition, therefore,... Read More
Dec / 2024Jury Trial Demands This post explains the procedures for making a jury trial demand—the process for a party to advise the court and... Read More
Dec / 2024The Supreme Court’s Assault on Regulations The Supreme Court has entered two rulings that profoundly change the balance of power in our government. These cases involve... Read More
Dec / 2024I have Cancer: Can I Sue Someone? Maybe. If you think you know what caused your cancer (or if a doctor identified a cause of your cancer)... Read More