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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As the Ed Dept finalizes financial value transparency rules, seeing posts from left-leaning people adopting the for-profit college industry's framing of rules seeking to prevent students from taking out huge loans for worthless programs. But this is a progressive policy about protecting students. /1

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Things continue to be going well for Jeanine Pirro's office in DDC. (Judge Lamberth is not amused.) ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

"ICE’s briefing does not therefore give the confidence that the agency has taken its disclosure obligations seriously. To be frank, ICE’s conduct during this litigation has been unacceptable. Its submissions to the Court suggest that it either has not read the Court’s previous opinions or that it has deliberately chosen to ignore them.”

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the Tom Goldstein situation is tragic on many levels, and has placed a lot of good people in very difficult situations. But I have been floored by the way legal media has been presenting his appeal as some sort of slam-dunk, obvious case of prosecutorial overreach.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Litigating against DOJ has been particularly tough the last year for reasons far beyond the merits. See this case where DOJ never filed an answer, and did not respond to a motion to compel an answer or the production of an administrative record ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Proud to represent AFSCME in a challenge to a new rule that would allow privatization of job services, based on DOL's assertion that DOL (and everyone else) has been interpreting a 1933 statute wrong since 1933 www.citizen.org/news/afscme-...

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AFSCME Challenges Illegal Department of Labor Rule That Will Hurt Job Seekers and Public Service Workers - Public Citizen

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group, filed suit…

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fun fact: if you are arguing before the Missouri Supreme Court for the first time, someone who has previously has to get up and introduce you to the Court and give them a short bio. Most uncomfortable I've ever been in court!

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A Supreme Court application seeking to invalidate a parentage order on the basis of personal jurisdiction is like a venn diagram of things that keep me up at night.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Mom, the textualists are fighting with each other again

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Interesting concurrence from Judge Thapar today, saying that if district courts have been sitting on a motion for more than six months, and a "gentle reminder" does not produce a ruling, litigants should file a mandamus petition! www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Never bet against the home team. The Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit rules for Delta, vacating DOTs withdrawal of antitrust immunity for its joint venture with Aeromexico media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Another big win for the team- opinion at www.citizen.org/wp-content/u...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Well, this is wild. The US Attorneys Office in DC simply refused to respond to a PI motion, citing summer vacations and that they rather just wait until summary judgment. Judge Howell was...not pleased. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It bears noting this was a defense witness, because if you read cert petitions, you'd think that plaintiffs' exclusively rely on shoddy experts and defense experts are the creme de la creme

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Democracy dies under Elias if it's in the interest of whoever is paying him

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

<throws his papers up in the air and quits the law> www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

Did Officer Josephs violate Antol’s Fourth Amendment rights by requiring him to urinate outside? To answer that question, we first look to the amendment’s original meaning,1 informed by founding-era law and pre-founding English common law. Virginia v. Moore, 553 U.S. 164, 168 (2008) (courts should “look to the statutes and common law of the founding era to determine the norms that the Fourth Amendment was meant to preserve”);

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just read a 9-page DDC opinion ruling on a summary judgment motion in a FOIA case that had been fully briefed since 2019, with not even the slightest recognition of the delay. What are we doing here people?

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Have reached the stage in brief writing where I'm just walking and have the urgent need to email myself a great sentence for the brief

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Has anyone written about how Richmond County Supreme Court is to New York how the Northern District of Texas is to the United States?

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This man has been working hard to make New York a less just city for decades now and wont you just sit and count your billions and move on.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Do I bother to read all 136 pages of a DC Circuit decision when I know there will be 3 sentences from the Supreme Court in a week or two making them meaningless?

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today's proposed Head Start ruleis awful in many ways, but highlighting one common to many Vought-era rules. The rule claims to be "deregulatory" because its eliminating a reg, but acknowledges the requirement is in the statute. So regulated entities still are bound to comply, just w. less guidance!

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The rare 3-judge concurrence in a case heard by 3 judges... calling out the oddity of treating regulations as "orders" for purposes of statutory provisions channeling some cases directly to courts of appeals media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A poem: I have received a barracuda email quarantine notification Informing me that a barracuda email quarantine notification Has been quarantined

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the Michigan senate primary must continue in perpetuity and we all have to keep hearing about it

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Two courts of appeals today rejected preemption challenges to state laws relating to vapes. In one, all three judges wrote as to a standing question: is there an injury when the conduct a state law prohibits is already illegal under federal law? clpblog.citizen.org/two-courts-o...

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Two courts of appeals find state vaping laws not preempted - CLP Blog

In what seems to be a matter of happenstance today, two courts of appeals issued decisions today holding that state laws relating to tobacco were not preempted. First, in Iowans for Alternatives to Sm...

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

NEW LAWSUIT: The Trump admin is changing the successful Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program into an abstinence-only program. We're suing to stop the admin from sacrificing young Americans' wellbeing to political ideology.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The demand for "intellectual diversity" in higher education was always dishonest, but policies designed to keep out people from other countries and make it so only rich people can attend highlight the disingenuousness

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Judge lawyers on their entire careers, not 4 years of government service...and certainly not on 13 months of government service fifteen years ago

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is it embarrassing to admit how fun it is to be spending my day reading volumes 2 and 3 of the Federal Register?

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Nominee for understatement of the year just dropped from the Seventh Circuit. media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

As discussed, Plaintiffs first filed this case in 2013. The district court
took nearly five years to rule on the motion to exclude and nearly nine
years to rule on summary judgment. This is an exceptionally long time.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Good day for NYC renters, as the Second Circuit rejects landlords/brokers claim to a constitutional right to collude and charge confusing broker fees. clpblog.citizen.org/second-circu...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is the "movement" Platner is a part of

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The last six months have confirmed my long-held view that too many people run for high-level/prestige offices, and not enough people run for lower-level ones.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

And on my fifth day back from sabbatical, I filed an amicus brief on the under-appreciated topic of stays pending appeal of remand offers and federal-officer removal--in the context of PBMs and opioids. Scintillating I swear! www.citizen.org/litigation/u...

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Utah v. Express Scripts - Public Citizen

In 2025, Utah sued several pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in Utah state court under Utah state law, alleging that the…

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Biden's solicitor general is the latest former administration officials cashing in to defend prediction markets. But none of them have any financial market experience, and the ones that do reject the claim that they can evade state gambling laws. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:

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Economic Hit Men for Gambling Apps - The American Prospect

Former solicitor general Elizabeth Prelogar is writing justifications for prediction market gambling apps, joining several Biden administration colleagues defending the industry.

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

NEW LAWSUIT: The Trump admin has been sharing Iranian asylum seekers' confidential information with the Iranian government. These asylum seekers are now at an increased risk of risk of persecution, torture, & death if they are sent back. We're suing to stop this heinous policy.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The 11th Circuit has rejected Florida's argument that conditioning student aid on accreditation is unconstitutional under the nondelegation doctrine and spending clause. No dissents and conservative panel. Will they seek cert nonetheless? media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

For a while, the Fourth Circuit has been rejecting a lot of the more .... creative... theories accepted by D.Md. judges. It seems like the First Circuit is now starting to do the same with D.Mass/DRI. This decision seems in line with that www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

WIN: Granting our motion in NAACP v. USPS, the court halted USPS's plan to interfere with mail-in voting. The plan threatened to disenfranchise millions of voters who rely on vote-by-mail to participate in elections. But USPS has an obligation to prioritize the timely delivery of election mail.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Can't wait to see what Ilan Wurman decides to be interested in next.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

When I was in law school, the case everyone thought would radically change civil litigation was Twombly. As many have found, it didn't. But the 6th Circuit today issued a divided opinion on how to reconcile Twombly & Swierkiewicz in discrimination cases. www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Wrapping up week 6 of sabbatical in the middle of the world

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Inside baseball but this seems not ideal: there used to be a nonprofit called Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. That org changed its name to Public Justice, and has a PC. There is frequent confusion between Public Justice & Public Citizen due to overlapping litigation work. /1

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Note, Kenyan left the Democratic Party 3 years ago and only rejoined this year, and has offered no explanation for doing so other than his own ambition and career opportunities. It's unclear what his vision and principles are beyond Kenyan should be in elected office.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The 10th Circuit rejects Kris Kobach office's argument that it is entitled to an interlocutory appeal where it's QI motion was denied without prejudice...for failure to comply with page limits. www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Got wifi in the Andes and saw we were successful in avoiding cert in Robles v. Parham, where officers argued they had qualified immunity to beat a compliant man pulled over for tinted windows because he hadn't graduated high school and had previously been arrested. Now back to sabbatical

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