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Open Thread different event · 95%

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⚖️ leaning not scored 🔴 no claims extracted 📰 publisher trust 66

“The articles have different dates and no specific event details, indicating they are separate open threads.”

Open Thread different event · 95%

Reason · 1.00 cosine similarity

⚖️ leaning not scored 🔴 no claims extracted 📰 publisher trust 66

“The articles are titled 'Open Thread' but have different dates, indicating they are separate threads on different days.”

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"I Will Not Stand for Being Jerked Around … by Any Lawyer Who Practices Before Me"

2026-09-18

New Article: Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections: Bringing Clarity To The Necessary and Proper Clause

2026-09-05

Lawyers' Responsibility for Hallucinations in Briefs That They Sign

Eugene Volokh

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🔮 And since the 1800s, courts have justified the rule, in part, based on the concern that affording every member of a large group a cause of action would threaten to stifle "free discussion" beneath an avalanche of "embittered and boundless litigation."

2026-10-09 · mixed framing · Statement About Maine Lobster Industry as a Whole Can't Be Actionable Group Defamation

🔮 But Michelle Evans could have conveyed her political views without publishing the photo.

2026-10-09 · assertive framing · Kafka's The Trial "Was Not Supposed to Be an Instruction Manual"

🔮 From the Sept. 30 decision in People v. Barraza by California Court of Appeal Justice Richard Huffman, joined by Justices William Dato and Truc Do: [1.] Alberto Jorge Barraza cut off parts of Nikko G.'s hair with a knife as Nikko tried to fight him off. Barraza stabbed Nikko in the leg, severing an artery and killing him.

2026-10-09 · assertive framing · Is Hair on Your Head "Personal Property" for Purposes of Robbery Law?

🔮 In her deposition, [mother-in-law] explained her eye condition as one that could be corrected with reading glasses; she further explained that it made it hard for her to make jewelry, but that she made jewelry more as a hobby and did not support herself by making jewelry.

2026-10-08 · assertive framing · Outlaw vs. In-Law Outlaw

🔮 He will speak about his experience, and his approach to liberty, both in his time as a lawyer and in his time as a judge.

2026-10-07 · assertive framing · Interviewing Justice Clint Bolick (Ariz.) at UCLA School of Law Monday, October 19 at 5:30 pm

🔮 The requirements of paragraph a. shall not apply if compliance would impose an operational or financial burden on the state or local entity and their employees.

2026-10-07 · assertive framing · Alabama Public University Professors Must Now Call Gulf of Mexico "Gulf of America" (Except When Speaking on "Historical" Questions)

🔮 No further extensions will be granted.

2026-10-06 · assertive framing · The "Application for an Extension and the Querulous Opposition Continue the Path of Bikeshedding or … Parkinson's Law of Triviality"

🔮 And, if the decision endures, it will likely be followed by many other such decisions.

2026-10-06 · assertive framing · Amicus Brief Asking Court to Consider Lawyers' Free Speech Rights, in Eastman v. State Bar

🔮 Since 2020, the Department has also collected the names of individual foreign donors while stating that it would not publish them.

2026-10-03 · assertive framing · Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Foreign Donors to U.S. Colleges

🔮 When officers told him he would need to move, Geri refused and threatened to throw one of his explosive devices into the street to demonstrate its destructive power.

2026-10-02 · mixed framing · Red Mass Explosive Man Asked S. Ct. to "Remove Arizona from the United States" and "Declare It a 'Foreign Enemy'"

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