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
- Every time I eat smoked salmon (which is a lot) I'm reminded of the time I was buying some nova lox at HEB and a gym bro behind me in line said "Yo, is... that instant salmon?"
- Why would you ask Claude to do this? Why?
- Oh, sweet merciful fire, two notes: (1) Even Latham & Watkins, ya'll. (2) The lawyer defending an AI company for using stolen IP to train their AI/LLM used the company's AI/LLM to cite check her brief, which hallucinated results. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...
- As I said, this is the actual answer to today's QP.
- The Court is trying to limit universal injunctions when all it need do is pronounce what the law is and that will resolve all disputes about universal injunctions.
- OK, trying this again because of a bad typo the first time. This is a dumb comment, but if the Supreme Court just addressed the merits of the birthright citizenship question, which are easy, it wouldn't matter whether there is a national injunction or not.
- The Pope's brother being a MAGA nut was inevitable, right? Sigh.
- Cue 400 "what to do when you're the pope and your brother wants to talk about Hilary Clinton at Thanksgiving" takes.
- 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.
- HAHA they're letting in white asylum seekers ONLY.
