The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and many state counterparts impose “word limits” on briefs and similar documents. Rule 32(a)(7)(B) requires that a principal brief contain no more than 13,000 words, a reply brief, no more than 6,500. Briefs that comply can exceed the respective...
explicit reference to the state, formats vary. Some conform to the pattern employed for federal rule citations and adapted by the ALWD guide to state rules. Some do not. What advice should a citation reference provide about this important category of primary legal material, advice that will ass...
a federal judge on tuesday granted the lawyer for a man charged with helping the islamic state group maintain an online presence almost a year to prepare for a complicated trial involving classified information. hawazen sameer mothafar, whose trial had been scheduled to begin tuesday in portlan...
The lead House sponsors of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act and a dozen other House lawmakers on Thursday urged the Federal Maritime Commission to quickly begin forging a new rule on shipping exchanges to prevent China from manipulating the global shipping market. House Transportation and Infrastructure ...
A federal court appears poised to pause litigation by the landfill industry against EPA’s recent updates to greenhouse gas reporting rules for the sector, after the agency filed an unopposed motion to do so because of officials’ decision to formally reconsider the rule’s default estimates about...
A judge is deciding whether to sanction two lawyers who blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. The lawyers apologized at a hearing Thursday in Manhattan federal court for their roles in written submis
A federal appeals court vacated the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Interstate Rule July 11, finding "more than several fatal flaws in the rule" (North Carolina v. EPA, D.C. Cir., No. 05-1244, 7/11/08).rnThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ...
The rule change has already sparked criticism, even as the rules begin to filter down to airline staff at various airports across the Middle East. "There would be a huge disadvantage to having everyone put their electronics in checked baggage," said Jeffrey Price, a professor at Metropolitan S...
“The Trump administration and Secretary Pompeo have shown a gross disregard not only of basic ethics, but also a blatant willingness to violate federal law for political gain,” Castro said in a statement Tuesday. “Congress has a responsibility to stand...
A federal district court judge in Arizona has granted a request from six tribes to vacate the Trump-era definition of waters of the United States (WOTUS), citing precedent from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and potential environmental harms from leaving the rule in place, ...