Beth Thornburg

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Emeritus law professor, civil procedure nerd. Hoping to find my old friends from #LawTwitter

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Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

What with #Chevron biting the dust and the temptation of judges to play expert, maybe it’s time to re-up my article on the problem of independent judicial fact research. scholar.smu.edu/law_faculty/...

The Curious Appellate Judge: Ethical Limits on Independent Researchscholar.smu.edu Appellate judges in the twenty-first century find themselves in a world in which litigation - both civil and criminal - involves a vast array of complex and technical factual disputes. These lawsuits,...

Paxton’s attack on Title IX (filed in Amarillo of course) includes claims of two UT professors who hypothetically want to penalize students for absences to get abortions. See paragraph 184, p 43. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...

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Come on, NDTx, you can do better. www.reuters.com/legal/texas-...

Judicial Conference makes it a little harder to get desired result by filing in single-judge federal districts. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Three cheers to @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and Slate for this pivot on coveting SCOTUS, and highlighting the extreme 5th Circuit (and its single-judge right wing district courts). slate.com/news-and-pol...

This Supreme Court Term’s Grimmest Cases Share One Thing in Commonslate.com They emerged from the depths of the 5th Circuit.

SCOTUS refuses to hear case of Trump lawyers sanctioned for making frivolous claims. #inherentpower #vexatiouslymultiplying www.reuters.com/legal/us-sup...

US Supreme Court rebuffs lawyers punished after 'woeful' suit backing Trump | Reuterswww.reuters.com The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by two lawyers contesting a $187,000 financial sanction imposed on them by a judge who found they made recklessness and frivolous claims in ...

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The Fifth Circuit casts “animate dead” on a case by doctors who say they were injured by the FDA’s tweets urging people to knock it off with the ivermectin. The doctors might still lose on standing. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vbZ_QnddcaG_cGNu55-ypNTUa13NPBrQ/view?usp=drivesdk

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A remarkable order in the $6B 3M ear plug MDL: plaintiffs' counsel must disclose any third-party funding agreements within the next 30 days. Sadly for those of us wanting to know more about such agreements, they are to be filed under seal. pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/41/103797/04...

#Discovery in the news: DC Circuit won’t block Trump deposition in ex-FBI employees’ suit. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Giuliani’s loss in case re Georgia poll workers is a discovery sanction, including spoliation and e-discovery. Court’s teachable opinion here: www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

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