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What Will the Art of Jury Selection Look Like During Trump’s Second Presidency?

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For those of us who select juries in state and federal courts throughout the United States, we wonder out loud how this process will evolve after President Trump’s trials and appeals are all concluded or terminated.  Many of...more

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Judges Wipe Out Business Interruption Policyholders’ First (And Only) COVID Win

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Out of the 1,199 (and counting) trial court rulings addressing Covid business interruption lawsuits, only one of them resulted in a victory for the policyholder. Back in 2022, Baylor College of Medicine won $12 million from...more

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Exploring Procedural Justice | Judge Steve Leben | Texas Appellate Law Podcast

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Judges represent not only their judicial office, but also the legitimacy of the judicial branch as a whole. For many Americans, their only interaction with the legal system may come from a single trip to the courthouse. This...more

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Can Appellate Courts Take Judicial Notice of Facts Not Otherwise in the Record? Sometimes.

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Sometimes oral argument in a case highlights oddities of the work we do. That happened today in the Virginia Supreme Court in LaRock v. City of Norfolk. Can an appellate court in a particular case go outside the appellate...more

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Rehearing revisited: Do some judges CFR more often than others?

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In a recent post, we took a look at data on rehearing petitions—specifically, the timing of calls for responses (CFRs).  Today, we dig further into that data to see if we can identify judges whose panels CFR more often. As...more

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How Often Do Federal Circuit Judges Sit?

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Since we’re all about data at Federal Circuitry, we thought we’d take a quick look at what our data show about how often Federal Circuit judges sit each year.  To quantify that, we looked at how many different panel days each...more

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Voir Dire on Content, Not Effect: Lessons from the Tsarnaev Appeal

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We tend to think of “bias” as it applies to juries, but courts can have their own deep-seated practices. For example, judges will often prefer voir dire questions that focus on the juror’s own assessment of the influence of a...more

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The Appellate Oral Argument

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The Appellate Court: An exciting forum of oral advocacy; a check on the process and the decisions of our trial courts; a second chance for parties to make their case; and a place where novel and important legal principles...more

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The Keys To Preserving Error For Appeal

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During a judicial career that spanned more than 25 years, Carlton Fields Shareholder Peter Webster presided over numerous jury trials as a circuit judge and authored hundreds of appellate opinions following his appointment to...more

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Running Into A Brick Wall Who Wears A Black Robe: Tips For Trying A Case Before A Hostile Judge

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For trial lawyers, hostile adversaries are par for the course. But judges are supposed to be irreproachably impartial, right? That is, after all, the very cornerstone of our judicial system. So when you find yourself trying...more

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