Author: Pogeaux

The Roberts Court sets a new standard. Removal of rights for anyone not like me.

303 Creative LLC v. Elenis

Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392, 597 U.S. ___ (2022)

Feel free to add your own.

After the last 5 years and the last week, why? What exactly is there here that would draw me here if I weren’t already here? There are airplanes out there that will take me to places that don’t seem to suck as much. Maybe you, my friends, can explain it to me. I don’t get it.

Wapo

A lawsuit that could test the constitutionality of the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban was filed in Texas on Monday against a doctor who admitted to performing an abortion considered illegal under the new law.

The details of the civil suit against Alan Braid, a physician in San Antonio, are as unusual as the law itself, which empowers private citizens to enforce the ban on abortion oncecardiac activity has been detected — often as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

The plaintiff is a felon serving a federal sentence at home in Arkansas, with no connection to the abortion at issue. He said he filed the claim not because of strongly held views about reproductive rights but in part because of the $10,000 he could receive if the lawsuit is successful. A second suit filed Monday —just four paragraphs long — came from a man in Chicago who asked a state court to strike down the abortion law as invalid.

Since the Texas ban took effect Sept. 1, advocates on both sides of the abortion debate have been anticipating such lawsuits, though perhaps not from a “disbarred and disgraced former Arkansas lawyer,” as Oscar Stilley described himself in his complaint.
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Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

Looks like Judge Parker in Michigan wasn’t fooled by Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, et al. all of whom are in deep do-do.

Law licenses in jeopardy, paying attorney’s fees of the other side …It doesn’t get much worse for lawyers.

Fuggem.

The lovely NY AG announced that her office is joining Cy Vance in his criminal investigation of the Dumbass administration. Sorry Donnie. You’re on the fast track to screwed. Enjoy the trip.