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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Sunshine Fest shines in D.C. despite gloomy climate

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Last week I attended Sunshine Fest in Washington, D.C., a conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of Sunshine Week , which recognizes t...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Court's pass on Wynn bid to revisit 'actual malice' makes sense, but standard still fuels misinformation

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Wynn operates the Encore Casino in Everett, Mass., since a dust-up with authorities over ownership. Holiday Point via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

House cap of 435 is unconstitutional, prof argues

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My colleague Professor Anoo Vyas has published Why Capping the House at 435 is Unconstitutional in the Penn State Law Review . Here is the...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Roberts explains 'real crisis' of American government

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Flyer by RJ Peltz-Steele (with AI art) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 At UMass Law last week, Alasdair S. Roberts , UMass Amherst professor of public polic...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Christian law students hear advice on grounding oneself in faith amid stresses of law practice

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🍀 St. Patrick's Day Zoom . RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The newly constituted student Christian Legal Society at UMass Law School he...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Book details knotty business of higher ed counsel

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By attorney Louis H. Guard and academic Joyce P. Jacobsen , All the Campus Lawyers (2024) is a compelling recent read for anyone intereste...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Apple Music drops Lady Gaga, Leo Messi interviews; L.A. producer Steele was behind the scenes

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Morgan Steele , my daughter, based in Los Angeles, has worked lately on some star-studded and classified projects, two now public. This (bel...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

'Toxic Town' features real-life, toxic-tort tragedy in UK

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Premiering on February 27, Toxic Town ( IMDb ), a compelling new miniseries on Netflix, fictionalizes a true story of toxic tort in Englan...
Friday, March 7, 2025

FOIA committee meets after firing of National Archivist

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Yesterday, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee , on which I am privileged to serve, held a public meeting, available o...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Texas attorney launches football (soccer) podcast

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A Texas attorney , co-author , and former student, Jose Benavides officially has launched his football (soccer)-and-politics podcast, The L...