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The “Solo Practitioner”: Pro Se Litigants and Their Obstacles to Justice A panel discussion hosted by the Fordham Law Review On January 25th, I will be speaking about pro se litigation at the Fordham Law Review Symposium. My esteemed co-panelists will include: Judge James C. Francis, a federal Magistrate for the Southern [...]
This is the first of many posts covering a legal issue that is very important to me, to 2 million of its members, and to many more millions of the members’ families: prisoner news. A former inmate at the Nassau County Correctional Center in Long Island, New York, filed a law suit [...]
We filed three Petitioner's briefs this week in the following cases: McComish v. Bennett, No. 10-239 Arizona Free Enterprise v. Bennett, No. 10-238 Fowler v. United States, No. 10-5443
65 is one of those magic ages here in the U.S. We drive at 16; we vote at 18; we drink (legally) at 21; we retire at 65. Why? Because that was the age at which full Social Security benefits traditionally kicked in. As a result, 65 became the age at which [...]
Last week I wrote about a case that Cockle Contributor Jacob Huebert and I are involved with that is before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case involves a Lawrence v. Texas/due process challenge to the application of a state sodomy statute. Today, Adam Liptak at the New York Times continues the discussion--the article is entitled, "A Place on [...]