Sat.Apr 10, 2021

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Short but Sweet Amicus Brief on E-discovery

Public Citizen

It’s not often (or ever) that I would post an amicus brief on e-discovery , but I’m making an exception today. Brian Morrison, a partner at Tadler Law, drafted an excellent trial court amicus on the narrow issue of e-discovery of emails that use hyperlinks (an increasing practice) instead of PDFs that are actually attached. It’s a perfect amicus brief—seemingly written just to help the court on nuances of e-discovery.

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Jackson & Mark paper asks whether the executive branch can forgive student loan debt without congressional action

Public Citizen

Howell E. Jackson and Colin Mark, both of Harvard, have written  May the Executive Branch Forgive Student Loan Debt Without Further Congressional Action? Here's the abstract: On April 1, 2021, the Biden Administration announced that Secretary of Education Michael Cardona will consider whether the President has legal authority to forgive up to $50,000 per debtor in student loan debt without further Congressional action.