Ruth Anne Robbins
@rarobbins.bsky.social
Law Prof @Rutgers #LegalStorytelling, #LegalWriting document design | NJ legislative & policy clinic | Gardening and making jam in my off hours |
🌒🌕🌘 | #SouthJersey |
Google Scholar https://go.rutgers.edu/2b1v80wz
🌒🌕🌘 | #SouthJersey |
Google Scholar https://go.rutgers.edu/2b1v80wz
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#NewJersey Legislature staff members met with #RutgersLaw students earlier this week to share opportunities for students to work on legislative issues. These include externships and the Legislative & Policy Advocacy Clinic - spearheaded by Professor @rarobbins.bsky.social
#lawsky #realworldimpact
#lawsky #realworldimpact
October 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#NewJersey Legislature staff members met with #RutgersLaw students earlier this week to share opportunities for students to work on legislative issues. These include externships and the Legislative & Policy Advocacy Clinic - spearheaded by Professor @rarobbins.bsky.social
#lawsky #realworldimpact
#lawsky #realworldimpact
Appalling
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Appalling
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I cannot stomach what this country has become. The viciousness and hate now visited on the dogs of people living here (in this case: the people are citizens).
CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.
The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.
While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.
The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.
The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.
While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.
The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.
October 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I cannot stomach what this country has become. The viciousness and hate now visited on the dogs of people living here (in this case: the people are citizens).
Really interesting video about AE’s last and failed leg of her flight.
There is a ton of already public government records on Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan’s disappearance, it was intensely investigated at the time and we know almost exactly what happened & why, it’s just they never found the wreck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTDF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTDF...
September 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Really interesting video about AE’s last and failed leg of her flight.
My mother was a virologist who worked on vaccines for two members of the virus family that includes the one causing shingles. A few months before she died she told me to go get the shingles vaccine. Do it.
If you qualify, get the shingles vaccine. If you know someone who got it, you’ll know why.
September 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
My mother was a virologist who worked on vaccines for two members of the virus family that includes the one causing shingles. A few months before she died she told me to go get the shingles vaccine. Do it.
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Six Google searches within 4 minutes, slightly different words but same query: Who’s the real killer in Anthony Horowitz’s The Twist of a Knife? WHAT THE HECK! Literally none of these is correct
September 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Six Google searches within 4 minutes, slightly different words but same query: Who’s the real killer in Anthony Horowitz’s The Twist of a Knife? WHAT THE HECK! Literally none of these is correct
This. Is. Not. Normal. This. Is. F#ck*d Up.
The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here.
This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
September 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This. Is. Not. Normal. This. Is. F#ck*d Up.
Co-sign
As frustrating as the headline is (some of us have been yelling that this isn’t normal since 2015) it’s something of a relief to see this in the NYT. Maybe the sedatives are wearing off.
Good piece. Democratic leadership is asleep at the wheel, capitulation is breeding capitulation. Shut it down.
September 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Co-sign
A vicious exam, with vicious procedures with a vicious origin story behind its very existence. The entire enterprise should be stopped. Here’s this July’s first horror story.
abovethelaw.com/2025/07/bar-...
abovethelaw.com/2025/07/bar-...
Bar Exam Taker Suffers Apparent Heart Attack - Above the Law
The exam never stopped during what seems to have been a major medical emergency.
abovethelaw.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A vicious exam, with vicious procedures with a vicious origin story behind its very existence. The entire enterprise should be stopped. Here’s this July’s first horror story.
abovethelaw.com/2025/07/bar-...
abovethelaw.com/2025/07/bar-...
Love the way he signs his name
Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
July 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Love the way he signs his name
I 💕 NJ
Know and exercise your rights when interacting with ICE.
For more info, visit: ╰➤https://www.nj.gov/humanservices/njnewamericans/newcomers/rights/
For more info, visit: ╰➤https://www.nj.gov/humanservices/njnewamericans/newcomers/rights/
July 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I 💕 NJ
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Know and exercise your rights when interacting with ICE.
For more info, visit: ╰➤https://www.nj.gov/humanservices/njnewamericans/newcomers/rights/
For more info, visit: ╰➤https://www.nj.gov/humanservices/njnewamericans/newcomers/rights/
July 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Know and exercise your rights when interacting with ICE.
For more info, visit: ╰➤https://www.nj.gov/humanservices/njnewamericans/newcomers/rights/
For more info, visit: ╰➤https://www.nj.gov/humanservices/njnewamericans/newcomers/rights/
The conference was wonderful (as always!). Thanks to Aysha Aymes for all the program planning. And thanks to @bethwilensky.bsky.social @mchannon.bsky.social and Ted Becker and the whole Michigan team for everything. Truly my favorite conference.
Spent my birthday, as I often do, presenting my work at an academic conference. Thanks to @leecarpenter.bsky.social for co-presenting and @rarobbins.bsky.social for nudging me to attend AppLS. Had a wonderful time and learned a lot, and it was great to see so many friends.
(I forgot to mention that it's @elliemargolis.bsky.social 's birthday today, so happy birthday Ellie!)
July 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The conference was wonderful (as always!). Thanks to Aysha Aymes for all the program planning. And thanks to @bethwilensky.bsky.social @mchannon.bsky.social and Ted Becker and the whole Michigan team for everything. Truly my favorite conference.
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Here’s an idea: what if the United States had a legislature.
Mike Johnson on Texas floods: "In a moment like this, we feel just as helpless as everyone else does ... all we know to do at this moment is pray."
July 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Here’s an idea: what if the United States had a legislature.
As a quick distraction: Jersey sour cherries are in. This year: we’ve added cherry-almond jam to the lineup.
June 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
As a quick distraction: Jersey sour cherries are in. This year: we’ve added cherry-almond jam to the lineup.
Amazing. Amazing that there’s an article spilling tea about the Bluebook inside drama, and that it’s placed so well.
I'll have more to say about this later but... Goodness. This article's description of the decisionmaking process on (cleaned up) and including an abbr. for Palestine does not make anyone look good.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#LegalWriting
#Citation
#Bluebook22
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#LegalWriting
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#Bluebook22
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<i>The Bluebook</i>: An Insider's Perspective
<p>Almost all users despise <i>The Bluebook</i>, and the twenty-second edition will do <span>little to end this hatred. Despite all of the criticism,
papers.ssrn.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Amazing. Amazing that there’s an article spilling tea about the Bluebook inside drama, and that it’s placed so well.
This one really terrifies and enrages me
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This one really terrifies and enrages me
Very interesting database
Ever wonder how many court opinions have (so far) addressed filings with AI-hallucinated material? According to this page, the tally is...
129 across the globe since mid-2023; of which ~90 are from the US
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www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
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129 across the globe since mid-2023; of which ~90 are from the US
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www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
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AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.
www.damiencharlotin.com
May 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Very interesting database
Oh FFS
If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days:
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
May 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Oh FFS
Sometimes the best antidote is going outside and hacking at—errr—trimming the nonstop rose bushes. 🌹🥀
May 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Sometimes the best antidote is going outside and hacking at—errr—trimming the nonstop rose bushes. 🌹🥀
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New Bluebook v.22 is out. Further updates as events warrant. For now:
cc: @scotusplaces.bsky.social
#LegalWriting
#CleanedUp
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#LegalWriting
#CleanedUp
![B5.3 Modifying Quotations and Citations for Clarity (p.9)
When a quotation includes material quoted from another source, the quotation may, for clarity, be stripped of internal quotation marks, brackets, ellipses, internal citations, and footnote reference numbers; the original sources of quotations within the quotation need not be cited parenthetically; and capitalization may be changed without brackets. Indicate these changes parenthetically with “(citation modified).” Other than the changes specified, the text of the quotation after modification should match the text used in the source cited. If the quotation is altered further, indicate the changes or omissions according to rules 5.3 and 5.3.
Thus: “[A]n ‘on the merits adjudication’ is” understood as “one that actually ‘pass[es] directly on the substance of [a particular] claim’ before the court.” Semtek Int’l Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 531 U.S. 497, 501–02 (2001) (alteration in original) (quoting Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 19 cmt. a (A.L.I. 1982)).
becomes: “An on the merits adjudication is” understood as “one that actually passes directly on the substance of a particular claim before the court.” Semtek Int’l Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 531 U.S. 497, 501–02 (2001) (citation modified).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o6o2u2byc2cellhzzisujort/bafkreiabsg2dgqrf67gqyh2rsonn7tr6hvruqubulkhped6euajcj66hnm@jpeg)
May 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
New Bluebook v.22 is out. Further updates as events warrant. For now:
cc: @scotusplaces.bsky.social
#LegalWriting
#CleanedUp
cc: @scotusplaces.bsky.social
#LegalWriting
#CleanedUp
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What's going on at my alma mater? www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure
The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.
www.chronicle.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What's going on at my alma mater? www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
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BREAKING: Judge Burroughs has granted Harvard's restraining order, barring the administration from terminating its foreign student population. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
BREAKING: Judge Burroughs has granted Harvard's restraining order, barring the administration from terminating its foreign student population. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I’m so proud of my clinic students for using their visual #legalwriting skills to help our @law.rutgers.edu pro bono Name Change Project. The Project has been led by two other former students. law.rutgers.edu/news/name-ch...
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May 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I’m so proud of my clinic students for using their visual #legalwriting skills to help our @law.rutgers.edu pro bono Name Change Project. The Project has been led by two other former students. law.rutgers.edu/news/name-ch...