Lawyer, veteran. Ex-baby historian, current litigator, lapsed social scientist, still playing TTRPGs. Unabashedly pro-cat because cats are awesome. Various thoughts, some well articulated in 🇺🇲/🇩🇪.
📍Chicago, IL, Vereinigte Staaten, Terra
Don Dechert
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I made a Firefox add-on that lets you find the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story in one click. Using @free.law's CourtListener and RECAP of course. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... (this is a personal project)
The rule against viewpoint discrimination is one of the most imptl in First A law. But as I show in a new paper, forthcoming in the U Penn Law Review, the test of viewpoint discrimination has changed a LOT in the past few decades, in good ways and bad. 🧵
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Fabulous idea.
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<p><span>The prohibition against viewpoint discrimination is one of the oldest and most important principles of First Amendment law. But what it means to viewpo
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Download The Missing Link for Firefox. Find the case the article didn't link. Claude identifies the U.S. court case discussed on the page and links you straight to it on CourtListener. Bring your own ...
I made a Firefox add-on that lets you find the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story in one click. Using @free.law's CourtListener and RECAP of course. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... (this is a personal project)
TIL 2 things on Bluesky:
1. Some people think citation management software is the same thing as AI.
2. Some people still think James O’Keefe videos are a reliable source.
I’m not saying there’s any relationship between these groups of people, just that I found both discoveries odd.
So a weird writing thing.
A lot of my articles revolve around the same set of themes. I like to think each is different, but they start from a set of similar premises. And that means, as a drafting matter, I'm always trying to decide how to explicate the background. And in particular -
