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Boasberg strikes Plaintiff’s entire brief over “excessive footnotes”
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:51 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,. https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1914769969583100045?s=46
The offending brief: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278806/gov.uscourts.dcd.278806.18.1_1.pdf |
Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:56 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, what do you think? the footnotes didn't strike me as gamesmanship at all. seemed pretty normal. it's not like they were burying entire legal arguments in the footnotes to avoid page limits. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48873960) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:59 PM Author: internet g0y Wtf? The FNs are just citations, not additional commentary. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48873967) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:03 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48873983) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:00 PM Author: internet g0y Local rule says: All pleadings shall appear in 12-pt. font and shall be double-spaced. Footnotes, which shall not be excessive, shall also appear in 12-pt. font. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:54 PM Author: Diamond Dallas Trump Absolute insanity...both the vagueness of the "rule" and the arbitrary enforcement. This asshole is completely drunk with power. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874212) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 2:34 PM I thought you were flaming but that is indeed the rule (bottom of page 22). https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/local_rules/Local%20Rules%20Jan_2024.pdf
wtf. How am I supposed to know how many footnotes are excessive. and ljl @ the court making up a number and line limit for just this case out of thin fucking air. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:00 PM Author: Kenneth Play oh what a majestic profession (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48873975) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:00 PM Author: internet g0y Also LOL at that Tweet "BIG WIN"
No dumbass the plaintiff has leave to refile |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:04 PM Author: hung stud Boas Bros cheering and high fiving in Greenpoint bars (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48873992) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:06 PM Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa Thugs in black robes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874000) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:08 PM It took longer for the court clerk to be a catty fag about this than it would have to just ignore the footnotes they deem "excessive" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874006) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:45 PM Author: internet g0y (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874163) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:17 PM Author: Ass Sunstein Dat too many footnotes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874025) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:49 PM Author: nu metal turntablist (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874186) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 2:49 PM Author: confusion of the highest order u gon haf 2 do dat one agin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874520) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:56 PM Author: richard clock 180, lawyers go way overboard on footnotes. law review articles being the biggest offenders. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874222) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 2:52 PM Author: .- .-. . .-. . .--. - .. .-.. . And this is why the first people to be replaced by AI will be judges. They are horrible little tyrants. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874522) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 4:38 PM Author: ceci n'est pas un avocat I feel personally attacked (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874879) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 4:40 PM Author: confusion of the highest order libs, who prioritze form over substance at all turns, will surely lionize snakeburg for this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715063&forum_id=2:#48874885) |