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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fun fact: Airbnb has recruited at high salaries several "civil rights lawyers" to show off as window dressing

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Which big "progressive" biglaw lawyer wrote it?

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

This isn't about saying certain kinds of careers don't matter! It's a response to predatory actors who charge students (and taxpayers) a ton of money and give little in return. The Biden Administration imposed *tougher* rules for gainful employment. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

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The Tortured Path of the Gainful Employment Rule

As the U.S. Department of Education prepares to publish its final gainful employment rule, learn more about the history of this key consumer safeguard meant to eliminate the worst actors before multit...

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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 · 27/09/2026

From what I recall, kids took it so they could go on DECA conferences, and couldn't understand my point that a motto of "Free Enterprise" was inherently conservative.

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ninth Circuit already ruled this way last month (Third Circuit has gone the other way)

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Adam Pulver @pulvinator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Keyboarding, principles of law 1-4, accounting 1-4, and marketing 1-4

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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

This just has led to a workaround, though: judges don't have oral argument until the opinions are already largely drafted

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

It is interesting in that this is coming from an appellate judge who was actually a district judge -- but in EDKY, which comes in at 19 of 91 district courts ranked from lowest to highest weighted filings per judgeship

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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 · 21/08/2026

(she disagreed on the full market analysis point)

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

She said that she agreed DOTs explanation that MEX's noncompliance with open skies did not explain why HND was different, and that alone required setting it all aside

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

It would be an extremely unlikely candidate for Supreme Court review

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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

K..The money his business has spent on PR works.

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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

The cited language was from the dissent

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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

Spoiler: the court requires further briefing, noting it will "allow the parties to address other changes of law that post-date the briefing," namely a *2019* Supreme Court case.

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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 · 12/08/2026

Ugh the luxuries you law firm people enjoy

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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

Agencies have also been trumpeting many rule rescissions as reducing burden, when the reason given for the rescission is that the rule doesn't actually apply anymore because the underlying funding program expired 30 years ago. Rescinding a rule like that doesnt help anyone!

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

This is part of the fallacy that you can measure how burdensome a regulatory regime is by counting the number of regulations. But many times, regulated entities prefer having a clear regulation explaining how to comply with a statutory mandate- it can actually be cheaper than having to guess!

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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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