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Judge disciplined for requiring COVID-19 vaccination for parents in custody case
{mag_summary} A Texas judge was publicly admonished last week for requiring that parents in a family law custody dispute receive the COVID-19 vaccination or produce…
Break the Supreme Court law clerk cartel
This is the eighth and final piece in a series on what I believe the court can, and should, do better.***Every year, each justice hires four law clerks. Under the current practice, the justices will hire young lawyers with sterling credentials who secured two or three...
Coast Guard commissions fifth fast-response cutter bound for Guam
USCGC Jeffrey Palazzo, named for a Coast Guard reservist killed on 9/11, entered service as Guam’s fifth Sentinel-class fast-response cutter.
The Produce Industry’s Own Association Just Closed Its Cyclospora Page. It Says a Food Was Identified, That the Finding Rested on Epidemiology and Traceback, and That No Positive Sample Was Ever Needed. Taylor Farms Should Read It.
On Sunday and Monday I posted about this outbreak. One post showed that FDA already answered the argument Taylor Farms is making, in a 2020 warning letter to another salad company. The other walked through every public version of the theory that...
NATO shoots down drone over Lithuania as Baltic tensions mount
NATO fighter jets shot down a drone over Lithuania, the latest airborne security incident along the alliance’s increasingly tense northeastern flank.
When Plaintiff’s Experts Ghost Their Own Depositions
This case is from the non-Butler Snow side of the blog.It’s a relatively new term (at least for us Gen Xers) – but we have all been ghosted. A second date that never gets confirmed. A contractor who quotes the job and then vanishes. A group text that just...
Pompeii monument honors 9/11 victims, symbolizes US-Italy unity
A twisted steel fragment from the Twin Towers embedded in volcanic rock near ancient Italian ruins honors the victims of 9/11 while symbolizing the strength of U.S.-Italy relations, officials say.
Deficiency Fees Paid for Pipeline Are a Post-Production Cost
Source: YouTubeSummaryCo-author: David PruittIf a Texas operator commits to minimum throughput volumes to secure pipeline capacity and ends up paying “deficiency fees” when production falls short, can it deduct those fees from overriding royalty interest...
Destroyer named for Navy Corpsman who earned Medal of Honor hits milestone
Former Marine Joseph Barna carried the memory of the Navy corpsman who saved his life and the lives of many other Marines during vicious fighting in the Korean War. In interviews and a book he later wrote on corpsmen who served in the war, Barna told the story of a...