Raffi Melkonian
Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean, #appellatetwitter. Host of The Appellate Wanderer podcast
- If you are not originally from Texas, but practice law here, a good thing to do is occasionally say things like "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered" or "that man's got less sense than a peach orchard goat."
- This thing about the Afrikaners getting asylum while everyone else doesn't is a story you'd make up if you wanted to slander someone.
- Oh this one is worse than the usual one, because lots of lawyers, plus the judge *told* them there were hallucinations, and they resubmitted the brief with hallucinations.
- Angry judge roasts Biglaw lawyers for their "collective debacle" filing a brief where "~9 of the 27 legal citations in the 10-page brief were incorrect in some way" due to Generative AI digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont... Lawyers will pay $31k for their sloppiness 🤖😵
- Going through a backlog of oral argument audio, wanted to pass along a tip. Generally speaking, splitting oral argument between two aligned counsel is a bad idea. But if you're going to do that, then it cannot be through a single issue or, as I recently heard, between law and facts. #AppellateSky
- I don’t even know what to do with this.
- Every day: "I am so thoroughly confused why the Trump administration thinks it can ___________ without _________. "
- You morons I’m taking a *public* bribe
- I keep saying it but Trump v Anderson is going to be a top 5 anti-canon one day. I know no one agrees, I don’t care.
- This is possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard other than the 47 other dumbest things I've ever heard from that podium in the last three months.
- The appellate angle is that Leo XIV is a (canon) lawyer
