Greg Castanias
@gregcastanias.bsky.social
Husband, dad, appellate & IP lawyer, law professor, writer, men’s college trustee, college fraternity leader, adoption advocate, cocktail maker, and DC dining enthusiast. Member of ALI and AAAL; #AppellateTwitter refugee.
Or you could have started with Bob Klonoff’s and my book on Appellate Practice and Procedure, published last spring, which did almost all of this work for you. (Page proofs, which I have on my iPad, reproduced below.)
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Available here: www.westacademic.com/Castanias-an...
December 26, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Or you could have started with Bob Klonoff’s and my book on Appellate Practice and Procedure, published last spring, which did almost all of this work for you. (Page proofs, which I have on my iPad, reproduced below.)
Available here: www.westacademic.com/Castanias-an...
Available here: www.westacademic.com/Castanias-an...
Not the best guide to determining whether a movie is a Christmas movie.
December 25, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Not the best guide to determining whether a movie is a Christmas movie.
“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard
December 15, 2024 at 4:10 PM
“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard
December 11, 2024 at 9:17 PM
If I were teaching Corporations (or Business Associations, or whatever your law school calls it), I would make question #1 on the final examination this Tweet with the prompt “Discuss.”
December 10, 2024 at 5:04 AM
If I were teaching Corporations (or Business Associations, or whatever your law school calls it), I would make question #1 on the final examination this Tweet with the prompt “Discuss.”
So do you think that Justices Alito and Thomas are going to strike down Tennessee’s law on gender-affirming care for teens on the ground that it interferes with parents’ “fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing of” their children? Or nah?
December 9, 2024 at 5:48 PM
So do you think that Justices Alito and Thomas are going to strike down Tennessee’s law on gender-affirming care for teens on the ground that it interferes with parents’ “fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing of” their children? Or nah?
And with zero self-awareness, Alito & Thomas, JJ, today dissent from denial of review of a case involving school gender identity support plans excluding non-supportive parents because they violate parents’ “fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing of their children.”
December 9, 2024 at 5:40 PM
And with zero self-awareness, Alito & Thomas, JJ, today dissent from denial of review of a case involving school gender identity support plans excluding non-supportive parents because they violate parents’ “fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing of their children.”
You claim empathy with those children and parents, but then promptly pivot to insisting that states’ rights trump theirs. That’s empty empathy. Conservatism was supposed to mean individual liberty and local decisionmaking. This deprives the local people best suited to decide—parents—from deciding.
December 8, 2024 at 7:47 PM
You claim empathy with those children and parents, but then promptly pivot to insisting that states’ rights trump theirs. That’s empty empathy. Conservatism was supposed to mean individual liberty and local decisionmaking. This deprives the local people best suited to decide—parents—from deciding.
You claim empathy with those children and parents, but then promptly pivot to insisting that states’ rights trump theirs. That’s empty empathy. Conservatism was supposed to mean individual liberty and local decisionmaking. This deprives the local people best suited to decide—parents—from deciding.
December 8, 2024 at 7:46 PM
You claim empathy with those children and parents, but then promptly pivot to insisting that states’ rights trump theirs. That’s empty empathy. Conservatism was supposed to mean individual liberty and local decisionmaking. This deprives the local people best suited to decide—parents—from deciding.
A few highlights from this year’s Christmas tree.
December 7, 2024 at 8:15 PM
A few highlights from this year’s Christmas tree.
Sigh. Guilty on all counts. blueskyroast.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Sigh. Guilty on all counts. blueskyroast.com
This seems like a destabilizing thing for society.
November 30, 2024 at 7:42 PM
This seems like a destabilizing thing for society.
Mother Hegseth knows the score.
By coincidence, Penelope was Odysseus’s wife, who, despite 108 suitors, remained faithful to him even once he had been gone and missing for 20 years after being called to fight in the Trojan War.
Also, “Peter” is another word for male genitalia.
By coincidence, Penelope was Odysseus’s wife, who, despite 108 suitors, remained faithful to him even once he had been gone and missing for 20 years after being called to fight in the Trojan War.
Also, “Peter” is another word for male genitalia.
November 30, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Mother Hegseth knows the score.
By coincidence, Penelope was Odysseus’s wife, who, despite 108 suitors, remained faithful to him even once he had been gone and missing for 20 years after being called to fight in the Trojan War.
Also, “Peter” is another word for male genitalia.
By coincidence, Penelope was Odysseus’s wife, who, despite 108 suitors, remained faithful to him even once he had been gone and missing for 20 years after being called to fight in the Trojan War.
Also, “Peter” is another word for male genitalia.
Post-constitutionalism (per Vought) is needed because constitutional law has been “transformed, over decades, away from the words on paper into a new arrangement … that pays only lip service to the old Constitution.”
Did he squawk when the Court granted sweeping atextual presidential immunity.
Did he squawk when the Court granted sweeping atextual presidential immunity.
November 29, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Post-constitutionalism (per Vought) is needed because constitutional law has been “transformed, over decades, away from the words on paper into a new arrangement … that pays only lip service to the old Constitution.”
Did he squawk when the Court granted sweeping atextual presidential immunity.
Did he squawk when the Court granted sweeping atextual presidential immunity.
We’re not a very worldly people here in the USA—23% of our population has never left the country; another 50% has only visited 1-4 countries; and only 11% percent of us has traveled to 10 or more countries. (Off the top of my head, I’ve been to at least 15, and I have ambitions to double that.)
November 29, 2024 at 8:53 PM
We’re not a very worldly people here in the USA—23% of our population has never left the country; another 50% has only visited 1-4 countries; and only 11% percent of us has traveled to 10 or more countries. (Off the top of my head, I’ve been to at least 15, and I have ambitions to double that.)
Too busy to cook Thanksgiving dinner? Do you enjoy reruns of mid-1960s sitcoms? Are you within driving distance of 1972 Los Angeles?
November 28, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Too busy to cook Thanksgiving dinner? Do you enjoy reruns of mid-1960s sitcoms? Are you within driving distance of 1972 Los Angeles?
Day drinking (at lunch): Cranberry Cobbler at FioRito Ristorante in Wichita, Kansas.
November 27, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Day drinking (at lunch): Cranberry Cobbler at FioRito Ristorante in Wichita, Kansas.
I shall not have my words policed by you here, sir!
Anyway, I’ve long since changed the icon and name for that hellsite on my iPad:
Anyway, I’ve long since changed the icon and name for that hellsite on my iPad:
November 27, 2024 at 9:55 PM
I shall not have my words policed by you here, sir!
Anyway, I’ve long since changed the icon and name for that hellsite on my iPad:
Anyway, I’ve long since changed the icon and name for that hellsite on my iPad:
Free link, with a delicious juxtaposition of two paragraphs. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/n...
November 26, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Free link, with a delicious juxtaposition of two paragraphs. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/n...