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		<title>New Merits Brief Filed by Cockle Legal Briefs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cockle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brief for Petitioners in Sandifer v. U.S. Steel Corp., No. 12-417, filed on May 13, 2013]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Practice Under The 2013 Rules Revisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 21:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Bradley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Court’s revised Rules will go into effect on July 1st. (See the revisions here, and the new complete rule book here.) There are no blockbuster changes, but certain key aspects of Supreme Court practice will change. I will be discussing some of the changes over at Cockle Legal Briefs website. My first post previews the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Merits Brief Filed by Cockle Printing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cockle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brief on the Merits for Appellant Republican National Committee in McCutcheon v. FEC, No. 12-536, filed on May 6, 2013]]></description>
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		<title>How To Write Prison Grievances</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 19:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shon R. Hopwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently learned about a new book on how prisoners can write grievances complaining about their conditions in prison. The book, written by Terri LeClercq, is called &#8220;Prison Grievances: When to Write, How to Write.&#8221; The reason why this book is so good for prisoners is because it is written in a simple, and easy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Worst Torture: Solitary Confinement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shon R. Hopwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the worst form of torture? I&#8217;ve been thinking about this subject for the past two weeks after reading an article written by William Blake, a New York State prisoner who has been housed in solitary confinement for the past 26 years because he murdered a sheriff&#8217;s deputy. Although I read the article two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Merits Brief Filed by Cockle Printing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cockle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reply Brief in Metrish v. Lancaster, No. 12-547, filed on April 16, 2013]]></description>
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		<title>The Need for Prosecution Clinics in Ending Mass Incarceration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shon R. Hopwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a debate fermenting at my law school, the University of Washington, over whether the school should fund a criminal prosecution clinic. I weighed in on the debate, and to the surprise of many, I said that I favor a prosecution clinic. I favor it because I think such a clinic, if done properly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write An Effective Appellate Brief: Lessons from Judge Richard Posner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shon R. Hopwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge Richard Posner, of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, recently laid out his view of appellate briefs (you can read the article on the ABA website here). Judge Posner writes: So, my essential advice to the appellate brief writer is to put yourself in the judge’s shoes all the way, as it were. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Special Requirements for Petition-Stage Amici</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Bradley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Chandler over at SCOTUSblog recently posted this update of his earlier work on the influence of petition-stage amici. Chandler notes that in the last five years, the number of petition-stage amicus filings has increased 35%, and the total number of amicus filers has increased by almost 65%. “In short: more, more, more,” he writes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Merits Brief Filed by Cockle Printing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cockle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brief for Respondent in Univ. of Texas Sw. Med. Ctr. v. Nassar, No. 12-484, filed on April 3, 2013]]></description>
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