When U.S. District Judge Richard W. Story observed a nationwide trend showing that a troubling percentage of citizens are unaware of their rights and the role of the Judiciary, he decided to take action to address this civics deficit.
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This post comes from the non-Butler Snow side of the blog.
The Bair Hugger MDL has an up and down history. First, we lauded the district court’s Rule 702 rulings that led to summary judgment across the board for the defendant. But then the Eighth Circuit reversed. The cases came back to the district court and the litigation has hobbled along since. That’s all about the substance of the cases. On procedure, the defendant is now batting two for two. … Read the rest
The federal Judiciary is taking additional steps to strengthen protections for sensitive case documents in response to recent escalated cyberattacks of a sophisticated and persistent nature on its case management system. The Judiciary is also further enhancing security of the system and to block future attacks, and it is prioritizing working with courts to mitigate the impact on litigants.
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Why is there so little information about this Harvard IP project?
The public deserves full transparency, but they do not seem to offer this?

In the first episode of our new mini-series on the Chancellor’s Mansion House speech and Leeds Reforms, Jonathan Herbst, Hannah Meakin and Simon Lovegrove look at the big picture, including the key themes behind the government’s reforms and the latest on the Berne Financial Services Agreement.
Listen to our podcast here.

On July 24, 2024, John tested positive for Listeria, while in the ICU. John’s sample was genetically linked, by Whole Genome Sequencing, to a cluster of Listeria associated with potatoes from Mexico.
Here are the prior investigations by States, FDA and CDC:
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/files/2025/08/2025-3195-CARA-656-_Redacted-4.pdf
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/files/2025/08/2025-3195-CARA-775-_Redacted-1.pdf
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/files/2025/08/2025-3195-CARA-918-_Redacted-1.pdf
Figure: SNP-tree of sequences of REP strain uploaded to the public sequence repository at
NCBI as of July 2025

On July 16, 2024, John was admitted to the hospital with a headache, facial drooping, … Read the rest
Personal and business bankruptcy filings rose 11.5 percent in the twelve-month period ending June 30, 2025, compared with the previous year.
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The program that pays court-appointed private attorneys to represent indigent federal criminal defendants has run out of money, starting the clock on a painful three-month delay in paying these attorneys and their related service providers for constitutionally mandated legal work.
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