We’re especially pleased that the panel includes Women's Bar Association of DC's 1996 Woman Lawyer of the Year recipient Marcia Greenberger, along with Katherine O’Neil and LaDoris Hazzard Cordell.
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@wlgactionnetwork.bsky.socialWe’re especially pleased that the panel includes Women's Bar Association of DC's 1996 Woman Lawyer of the Year recipient Marcia Greenberger, along with Katherine O’Neil and LaDoris Hazzard Cordell.
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@wlgactionnetwork.bsky.socialSexual harassment persists at every level of the legal profession.
Reporting systems too often fail—or even harm—those they should protect, while harassers frequently face few or no consequences.
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@debbieshrager.bsky.socialHappy First Monday! #SCOTUS #Appellatesky
@kendylhanks.bsky.socialI’m reading the comments and wonder if science people are as perplexed when they read comments to #appellatesky skeets
@ryanmccarl.bsky.socialWriting tip: Keep the main subject and verb close together.
My latest Elegant Legal Writing post diagnoses the sentence’s other flaws, including ambiguity in “carries the burden” and the nesting of a negative assertion within a positive one, and offers tips for avoiding them.
@wlgactionnetwork.bsky.socialOur president & cofounder, Cory Amron, will introduce kickoff speaker @skyeperryman.bsky.social, CEO of @democracyforward.org orward, followed by a panel featuring Laura Brill, Rachel Homer & Ryan Snow.
#appellatesky #SkyLaw #VotingRights
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@wlgactionnetwork.bsky.socialThe rule of law does not depend on whether those in power agree with it.
As lawyers, when our institutions and the laws protecting them are threatened, we have a responsibility to speak up and demand that the law be followed.
#appellatesky #appellatetwitter
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@ericbrignac.bsky.socialAbout to e-file my brief.
The typo gremlins are assembled and ready to start inserting as soon as I hit send.
@adambonin.bsky.socialFor #AppellateSky, fun intro to a 1st Cir opinion on whether a mega-lottery winner can proceed pseudonymously to enforce an NDA regarding his identity as a mega-lottery winner...in which the authoring judge muses about writing pseudonymously. (Via Short Circuit.)
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
![ROE, Circuit Judge.1
Hitting the jackpot isn't always everything it's cracked
up to be. Just ask "John Doe," today's appellant.
Doe won 1.35 billion (yes, billion with a "b") dollars
in the Maine State Lottery. And then he made "Sara Smith," the
mother of his child, sign a non-disclosure agreement ("NDA")
swearing her to secrecy about the win and his identity. But Smith
may have spilled about Doe's lotto win anyway, thus violating the
1 Just kidding -- Judge Thompson authoring here.
But wouldn't it raise eyebrows if the parties and the public
didn't know who was deciding the case? Thankfully, even if the
panel opted to publish a per curium opinion so that the identity
of the authorizing judge was not disclosed, we've still got all
our names on the cover page to let the public know the judicial
arbiters.
As you'll see throughout today's opinion, we believe our
precedent makes paramount the principle of transparency as a
bulwark of the effectiveness of our judicial system and the
public's trust in it. As Chief Justice of the United States Warren
Burger once said, "People in an open society do not demand
infallibility from their institutions, but it is difficult for
them to accept what they are prohibited from observing." See Adam
Liptak, Secrecy in Lawsuits Has 'Run Amok,' Scholars Say, N.Y.
Times, Aug. 27, 2026. (cleaned up). And increased secrecy in the
courts has not gone unnoticed. In the view of one recent New York
Times article, "[s]ecrecy in lawsuits has 'run amok'" in federal
courts, and studies show that "judges are not doing enough to
protect the public interest in openness." See id. If true, some
would view this as troubling. So putting spotlight on the problem
via a creative little formatting tweak in our opening line is an
easy thing we can do to remind the public of the historical
scaffolding that undergirds our judicial framework of transparency
and public access.
All that's to say: that eye-grabbing opener isn't just for
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