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Ellie Margolis

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Law professor @TempleLaw, suburban gardener, avid reader. Happy to nerd out about legal writing anytime.

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[falls over dead]

11.03.2026 02:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 30 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amazing!!! Congratulations!!!

11.03.2026 02:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FWIW, this echoes a misquote that I caught in the Minnesota case I covered this morning โ€” www.lawdork.com/p/posse-comi... โ€” relating to the text of a federal law.

10.03.2026 22:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 161 ๐Ÿ” 29 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

This lawyer is getting torched. ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

10.03.2026 22:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽฏ๐ŸŽฏ๐ŸŽฏ

10.03.2026 22:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And there it is.

10.03.2026 20:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Background information here:

10.03.2026 19:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 670 ๐Ÿ” 128 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 27

Get vaccinated. For the babies

10.03.2026 18:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act Although recent litigation has focused on troop deployments to American cities, a new challenge in Minnesota looks at DOJ's use of JAG lawyers in non-military cases.

BREAKING: Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act.

Although recent litigation has focused on troop deployments to American cities, a new challenge in Minnesota looks at DOJ's use of JAG lawyers in non-military cases.

New, at Law Dork:

10.03.2026 14:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 1174 ๐Ÿ” 453 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
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Under Faculty Pressure, Harvard FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra Rolls Back Restrictions On Campus Signage | News | The Harvard Crimson The Faculty of Arts and Sciences quietly revised its guidance on campus use rules last week to allow publicly visible signs in private spaces, after months of pressure from faculty who said the guidel...

A win for academic freedom.

Being a professor is a tough job because we have a lot of competing pressures, but remember that we have an obligation to govern ourselves.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

10.03.2026 13:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 137 ๐Ÿ” 38 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

So an admission that the SAVE act is entirely about suppressing Dem votes.

09.03.2026 21:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

That is distressing to me personally, but not as surprising as Elvis. Now I have to ask my (adult) kids if they've heard of Cary Grant.

09.03.2026 21:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 23 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yikes

09.03.2026 21:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Your brief before partner comments, your brief after partner comments.

09.03.2026 20:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 149 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Whoโ€™s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. (Gift Article) A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge. That can make them pretty good writers.

I picked human every time. Mostly I could tell the difference, but even on the one I wasn't sure, I still chose the sample written by a human. I seem to be an outlier based on the results.

I'm curious if my preference stems from being an avid reader. I'd love to see how others do.

09.03.2026 20:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is incredible

09.03.2026 20:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Judge Brann has ejected the new leaders of the NJ U.S. attorney's office, once again finding the Trump administration is illegally attempting to circumvent Senate confirmation.

He says this could result in dismissals of indictments.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

09.03.2026 19:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 2765 ๐Ÿ” 905 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30 ๐Ÿ“Œ 27

We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that:

cabinet/board/panel = things made of wood

cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations

09.03.2026 13:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 914 ๐Ÿ” 152 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30 ๐Ÿ“Œ 30
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An important limit on using AI to do legal history research: Here, my request was to have Claude (Opus 4.6 extended) find early cases on search & seizure, but it kept running into paywalls and other barriers that made it ultimately unable to do it in a useful way.

09.03.2026 18:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 28 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Is this "the most severe ENERGY crisis since the 1970s"? Or is it the most severe OIL crisis since the 1970s?

09.03.2026 11:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.

1/The failure to investigate Renee Goodโ€™s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

08.03.2026 12:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1552 ๐Ÿ” 611 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16 ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. Iโ€™m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

07.03.2026 20:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1067 ๐Ÿ” 428 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Iโ€™m involved in a case where there is a pro se party filing 3-4 things a day that essentially say the same thing on repeat. As soon as I saw the pro seโ€™s filing here, I knew the pro se in my case was using ChatGPT. Exact same structure and tone. Now I know why they keep filing over and over

08.03.2026 00:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Losing is a weird word for not completing a puzzle, I agree.

07.03.2026 13:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Federal district judges have threatened DOJ lawyers with contempt over violated court orders time and again.

Why haven't they followed through?

07.03.2026 13:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Badge for completing NYT Connections 365 consecutive days without losing.

Badge for completing NYT Connections 365 consecutive days without losing.

So this happened.

07.03.2026 13:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Watch Drive to Survive. Also, the book The Formula gives a great overview of the history and developments up to the last couple of years.

07.03.2026 02:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Finally finished Harrow the Ninth (delayed by my travels) and Iโ€™m going to start How to Read a Book by Monica Wood. Watching Shrinking.

07.03.2026 00:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm honored to be publishing this piece with Vanderbilt Psych Prof Sarah Brown-Schmidt in volume 112 of the Virginia Law Review. In this empirical evidence law and cognitive science article, we identify the risks posed by "hear-witnesses" who inaccurately recall and recount statements at trial.

06.03.2026 21:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3