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The importance of spell-checking your brief

  • Nexsen Pruet
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 22 2011

The interwebs have been abuzz this week with gleeful snarking about Sanches v. Carollton-Farmers Branch I.S.D., particularly the Fifth Circuit's dressing down of Sanches' attorney for "grammatical errors ... so egregious and obvious that an average fourth grader would have avoided most of them."

Jedi mind tricks in the Fourth Circuit

  • Nexsen Pruet
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 20 2011

Remember Obi-Wan Kenobi waving his hand at some baddie in the first Star Wars movie saying, "There is no droid"?

The Fourth Circuit goes (almost) live

  • Nexsen Pruet
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2011

New Fourth Circuit Internal Operating Procedure 34.3 takes effect today

Is that a statement of facts, or a "fact dump"?

  • Nexsen Pruet
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 19 2011

A friend of mine practices Social Security disability, and hence files quite a few appellate briefs in the U.S. District Court

Error preservation in South Carolina: beware the "two issue" rule.

  • Nexsen Pruet
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2011

Because I am an appellate lawyer, error preservation is the bane of my existence

The appellate code: the many meanings of "per curiam"

  • Nexsen Pruet
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 19 2011

We all know that “per curiam” means “by the court.”