Are we 100% sure the government shutdown is not just a ruse to let federal employees watch playoff baseball?
02.10.2025 19:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@ellenbardash.bsky.social
Corporate litigation reporter for Law.com, living in Philly and (mostly) covering the Delaware Court of Chancery. Not a lawyer, not a wife, not a mom.
Are we 100% sure the government shutdown is not just a ruse to let federal employees watch playoff baseball?
02.10.2025 19:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I would like to present this footnote from Magistrate Wright with no context.
(Full opinion here: courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow...)
Fall 2020 (just moved to Philly): I suppose I should try to watch an Eagles game
Fall 2025: I think each Eagles player deserves to spit on one member of the opposing team every game without consequences
This makes sense as Delaware is notoriously a state that doesn't have any practicing lawyers and doesn't ever have lawyers from other states file briefs in any of its courts
04.09.2025 14:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My latest for Litigation Daily: some thoughts on how Texas and Delaware compare in the relationship between their business courts and legislatures.
04.09.2025 14:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One of Ohio's two great road trip landmarks (the other is the Hell is Real sign)
03.09.2025 19:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ashamed to admit that's more than I pay for wine (so, no) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
28.08.2025 16:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0area man beats sandwich crime charge, will not be sub-poenaed
27.08.2025 14:46 β π 4518 π 476 π¬ 158 π 71He could be the one to get to the bottom of who's in the Epstein files
14.08.2025 15:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Look I know from experience prisons will do anything to keep media out, but now that Jen Shah, Elizabeth Holmes and Ghislaine Maxwell are all in the same prison Bravo should have at least made some phone calls floating a new Housewives franchise
14.08.2025 15:36 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0I put together an update on what's been going on with the constitutional challenge to SB 21 since the Supreme Court agreed to consider it in June.
11.08.2025 19:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Imagining a good CMS experience brought me the closest I've ever been to having any interest in seeing any superhero movie
11.08.2025 19:13 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0well well well, looks like there IS something AI can't do better than I can
06.08.2025 19:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NYTimes headline reading "NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say"
Onion headline: 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens'
THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE
30.07.2025 01:54 β π 1688 π 540 π¬ 20 π 23Time spent on today's commute so far: one hour. 24 blocks to go.
21.07.2025 13:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I would also not be risking heat stroke to sit in a cubicle three days a week but you could argue the risk keeps things exciting. I won't, but you could.
21.07.2025 13:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Sure the decline of SEPTA means every day it takes me longer to get to the office I have to go to for no discernible reason, but if it were fully functional or I worked from home I wouldn't have walked past the man who yelled angrily that he liked my dress this morning. Balance
21.07.2025 13:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Does every Uber driver in Philadelphia have a broken AC in their car or do I just have horrible luck? I'm too sweaty of a person for this even when it's not 90 degrees
16.07.2025 13:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0VC Will said during yesterday's hearing that she has concerns about civility within the Chancery bar: "Some of the very sad public food fighting that we've recently seen on social media, even among senior members of our bar, is starting to bleed into court filings." www.law.com/delbizcourt/...
16.07.2025 13:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've gotta say, VC Cook really reeled me in with this opening line (from courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow...)
14.07.2025 15:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I went totally offline while on vacation all last week and today am dealing with the aftermath: literally 700 unread emails
30.06.2025 13:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Perpetually unclear why TSA at PHL is designed to give every passenger the experience of Ralphie in A Christmas Story being told "Hey, kid! The line ENDS here. It BEGINS there" by someone gesturing to a 1/4 mile long single file line
21.06.2025 10:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Delaware Supreme Court has reversed the Columbia Pipeline case.
17.06.2025 20:17 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Realized after writing this there is probably a third type of person who is simply not online, but I don't know them
05.06.2025 19:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There are two types of people in the world: people who consider the Trump/Elon feud to be today's biggest news on social media, and people who think it's Paige DeSorbo announcing she's leaving Summer House
05.06.2025 19:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I don't really know what to do with any of that, but I did send an email to the address on their website, so we'll see if that leads to anything I guess
28.05.2025 21:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The phone numbers on the contact page are also linked to Morris James.
28.05.2025 21:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Also on the contact page is a map that shows 815 N. Jackson St. in Wilmington as the address for Delaware Business Litigation. 815 N. Jackson appears to be a multi-family home www.redfin.com/DE/Wilmingto...
28.05.2025 21:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I did reverse image searches on a few of the photos on the site, and they appear to all be stock images.
On the FAQ page, there's a link to a website for Berbay Marketing & PR, which does appear to be an actual PR agency.
Morris James has put out a statement saying it has no connection whatsoever to the website, and the firm is looking into it. www.morrisjames.com/p/102kcsn/no...
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