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Ellie Margolis

@elliemargolis.bsky.social
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Law professor @TempleLaw, suburban gardener, avid reader. Happy to nerd out about legal writing anytime.

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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cool, cool
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
3d Cir. has ruled in favor of Thompson Reuters, finding that a competitor infringed their copyright in the headnotes on Westlaw, which the competitor partially used to train its AI. But the opinion is currently sealed so the parties can make redactions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT No. 25-2153 THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBH; WEST PUBLISHING CORP v. ROSS INTELLIGENCE INC, Appellant _____________________________ On Appeal from the U.S. District Court, D. Del. Judge Stephanos Bibas*, No. 1:20-cv-00613 Before: RESTREPO, MONTGOMERY-REEVES, and BOVE, Circuit Judges Argued: June 11, 2026 _____________________________ JUDGMENT This cause came to be considered on the record from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and was argued on June 11, 2026. On consideration whereof, it is now ORDERED and ADJUDGED that the District Court’s order entered on February 11, 2025, is hereby AFFIRMED. Costs will be taxed against the Appellant.  All of the above in accordance with the Opinion of this Court. ATTEST: s/Patricia S. Dodszuweit Clerk
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney
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Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A woman’s lifetime of suffering is weighed against a potential temporary setback in a man’s career, and the man’s self-induced plight always carries more weight.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.
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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What riches
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/09/2026
Ah yes, the function was fine, it was just the FORMAT that people objected to.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yikes
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
who once what
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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Whew, scathing is right.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"In Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, people said their opposition [to AI and data centers] stemmed less from a fear of tech and more from a sense that they were being lied to by elected leaders who were at best too weak to stand up to or at worst in cahoots with wealthy industry."
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Peter Orlowicz @peterorlowicz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is like the example a textbook author makes up to illustrate various ethics violations.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
her original essay really shaped the way i have thought about public/private education and how resources are distributed unequally. i respect the intention a lot and really, really respect this public grappling with what she got right and wrong. integrity, and really heartbreaking.
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Monica @jolemamels.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
THAT THROW THAT CATCH
Eagles Man sipping drink through straw
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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Okay, here we go! Pennsylvania State University v. Vintage Brand LLC, live at the Third Circuit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXpp...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Last week, I told you how local cops have partnered with ICE to bring tons of arrests and spread fear in small towns and rural areas like Schuylkill County, Pa. Now, I am asking Gov. Shapiro and others why PA can't ban 287(g) like NY, NJ, and MD have My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
inquirer.com
Next-door states banned ICE-cop deals. Why not Pa.? | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, the threat to human civilization that isn’t AI.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
OK - Coming attractions time. I found this wonderful paragraph in a federal court filing (specifically, in a motion to dismiss). It's one of the most amazing string cites (kinda) I've seen. The full case is amazing; I'll do a litigation disaster tourism thread tomorrow.
Hundreds of years before the Common Era, Herodotus wrote of the Neuri, a
tribe northeast of Scythia that would reportedly transform into wolves for several days once a year.
Herodotus, The Histories, 4.105 (circa 440 BCE). Werewolves continued to appear in folklore from
antiquity through modern times, and across a wide range of cultures. See, e.g., Pausanias, Description of
Greece, 8.2 (circa 160-180 CE); Ovid, The Metamorphoses, I 219-239 (circa 8 CE); Pliny the Elder,
Natural History, VIII.34 (circa 77 CE); Augustine, The City of God, XVIII.17 (circa 426 CE); King
Canute, Ecclesiastical Ordinances, c. 26 (circa 1020 CE); Anonymous, The Tale of Igor’s Campaign (circa
late 1100s) (Slavic folklore); Marie de France, Bisclavret (circa 1200); Völsungasaga, ch. 8 (circa 1250
CE) (Nordic folklore). Bram Stoker depicted Dracula as a werewolf in Dracula’s Guest. Werewolves came to the silver screen first in Werewolf of London (1935) and then Lon Chaney’s definitive
performance in The Wolf Man (1941), and have essentially never left it since. And animal
shapeshifting has not been limited to wolves. Greek mythology is replete with humans (or humanshaped gods) who transform into animals or monsters. In Tlingit folklore, Kóoshdaa are wereotters. Celtic mythology includes selkies (were-seals) and kelpies (shape-shifting water-horses that
live in lochs). DC Comics has featured numerous shark-human hybrids since its Silver Age,
including Guppy (a small-time criminal in Nightwing’s rogues’ gallery, first appearance in 2018),
King Shark (the son of a shark god and a human mother, first appearance in 1994), and Karshon (a
mutated shark, first appearance in Green Lantern 24, October 1963). Other examples abound.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over public dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito, #SCOTUS *denies* the Trump administration’s request for a stay in the mail-in ballots case. The USPS Rule will remain blocked—almost certainly through the midterms.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
jessica.substack.com
BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In rebuttal to “legal? ai is getting there” I offer www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
damiencharlotin.com
AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
The most comprehensive database of AI hallucination cases in law: legal decisions from courts worldwide, searchable by country, party, AI tool, and outcome. Updated daily.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
respect to Google Gemini for getting me a 2020 Hugo nom for a story that doesn't exist published in a magazine I've never sold to
Award-Nominated Short Stories"And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" (2019): Published in Strange Horizons, this powerful historical fantasy story was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. It is set in Bengal during World War II under British rule and deals with art, rebellion, and grief."The Inaccessibility of Castles" (2020): Published in Clarkesworld Magazine, this story was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2021.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This piece by Colson Whitehead is one of my favorite things ever written. I've shared it many times with folks over the years. It was published two months after 9/11, and I believe it's one of the greatest things ever put to pen about grief, memory, and time. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...
I started building my New York on the uptown No. 1 train. My first city memory is of looking out a subway window as the train erupted from the tunnel on the way to 125th Street and palsied up onto the elevated tracks. It's the early 70's, so everything is filthy. Which means everything is still filthy, because that is my city and I'm sticking to it. I still call it the Pan Am Building, not out of affectation, but because that's what it is. For that new transplant from Des Moines, who is starting her first week of work at a Park Avenue South insurance firm, that colossus squatting over Grand Central is the Met Life Building, and for her it always will be. She is wrong, of course -- when I look up there, I clearly see the gigantic letters spelling out Pan Am, don't I? And of course I am wrong, in the eyes of the old-timers who maintain the myth that there was a time before Pan Am.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
more of this energy, please
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As I keep explaining to my students: federal judges have law clerks who pull the motion and immediately begin pulling the cites to read them. So, you will find an AI cite pretty quickly. The same thing is happening in law review land as well.
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ALJ Dredd @unionsaltbae.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Coyote v Acme is the first movie since My Cousin Vinny to capture the essence of what it means to be a lawyer. In this essay I will
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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is a big deal. Don’t treat your people like this.
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is an insane detail in this report on cheating! nymag.com/intelligence...
In the meantime, many schools have turned to surveillance.
Owen, a junior at Princeton
familiar with its Honor Committee, says the school often catches AI cheats by spying on internet use. Students' browsing histories are pulled from the campus network and scanned for recent visits to ChatGPT or Claude. If you whipped out your phone during a quiz, accessing a model on the building's Wi-Fi, you will likely be busted. While every case requires multiple pieces of evidence, and Princeton says it does not pull students' search histories unless they are already under investigation, Owen says the network logs have become critical in proving academic dishonesty. Every case he's been aware of lately has leaned on them.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I felt I couldn't ignore the big 9/11 anniversary but the thing I felt most is rage over Islamophobia that gets more extreme and more embedded in our politics and in half-ass news coverage every year GOP turns to Muslim hate because it's all they got My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
inquirer.com
Islamophobia: a 9/11 legacy that refuses to die | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, a cowardly response to the U.K.’s masked thugs.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Veteran TV journalist Jennifer Schulze says: Don't watch "60 Minutes" because you just can't trust it. @newsjennifer.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
vimeo.com/1224659811/7... Thrilled that I finally had the chance to watch this moving and inspiring documentary by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. Among many standout moments was archival footage of Fred Hampton saying "If you are afraid of socialism, you are afraid of YOURSELF!" 🙌🏽🔥
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Who wouldn’t want to pay $3500 to be featured in a magazine nobody has heard of? Seems like a great career move. 🙄🙄🙄
We are currently curating our upcoming global edition titled "The 10 Academic Leaders Redefining Excellence in Education, 2026"
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Based on your professional journey and accomplishments, we believe you would be an excellent fit for this distinguished edition.
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• One Guest Article in a Future Issue
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I always think this is why originalism is a mummer’s game: it takes away the notion that the Constitutions should be amended.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As many large firms succumb to greed and fear, scrappy groups of lawyers are taking Trump’s lawlessness and winning. They deserve our thanks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Legal veterans lead fightback against Trump’s ‘full-out assault on democracy’
Advocacy groups expand legal challenges and condemn president’s ‘self-serving attempts to take over midterms’
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What has struck me the most in the last two years is that journalists might understand constitutional law, but they might also want to understand administrative law too.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Order more specials — or, better, a series — or we send Animal to the Disney corporate suites.
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Muppet Animal Looking Around
ALT: Muppet Animal Looking Around
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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW: A US judge blocked the Postal Service from enforcing new limits on mail-in voting through the Nov. 3 midterms, extending a short-term pause as North Carolina began sending ballots on Friday and the Justice Department was urging the Supreme Court to intervene www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As @victorerikray.bsky.social says, "University leaders should make it clear that it’s their right to address historical inequities & help students from historically marginalized racial groups, & that they will fight this authoritarian escalation with everything they can." www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
ms.now
Opinion | Trump’s next high education target: schools that help Black students
Victor Ray: American universities must stand up to Trump's plan to re-segregate higher ed
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“behind closed doors, the first-term senator shows little interest in doing the job beyond cultivating relationships with conservative media figures and advocating for Israel” - Fetterman is the absolute worst, utterly betrayed those who voted for someone different www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a Senator
The first-term senator, poised to be a possible swing vote, churns through staff as he alienates fellow Democrats and defends Israel.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 03/09/2026
I wrote about Google and Apple's enthusiastic support of Trump's pointless and wildly-unpopular attempt to rename Lake Ontario.
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Never Forget How Eagerly Apple And Google Coddled Fascism
The US slide into autocracy has been enabled at every step by pathetic tech executives that enthusiastically embraced a complete lack of ethics.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.
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Peter Orlowicz @peterorlowicz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is also true for legal writing, of course (appellate and otherwise). @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social @smmarotta.bsky.social @elliemargolis.bsky.social @djsziff.bsky.social @aznchew.bsky.social
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 03/09/2026
Justices who have issued rulings that sided with proponents of abortion rights are on the ballot in Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Justices who have upheld restrictions are up in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Texas.
boltsmag.org
Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts
Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why I switched to Mapquest. A tale in 3 pictures.
Mapquest = Lake Ontario
Google Maps = “Lake America”Apple Maps = “Lake America”
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