JD Xerri-Martin

We used it as an excellent opportunity to re-assess expectations…

Once had a client who asked me to write a letter to their employer advising they’d need to be off work the following week for their sentencing hearing…

Ha! Let me tell you, the look on their faces after going steadily down the tightening chronology from International Shoe to BMS, then to loose Ford on them as the final case we do, is a picture!

Enjoying a re-listen to the oral arguments in Ford v. Montana before the significantly less pleasant task of teaching it to my 1Ls later today.
[amicably shakes fist in @smmarotta.bsky.social’s general direction…]

In my continuing delight of the word “shag” meaning something totally different here in the USA, we were watching a TV show yesterday and were treated to this absolute hilarity:

Them’s some mad stats! Congrats!

Look, I’m just saying. My wife is a graduate of UNC, and is now a lawyer, and when she got a Welshman who was living in London, she ended up marrying him.

It’s a dangerous game.

Wait is he coming to you from actual Wales???

Quite bloody right.

Done!

You know what, I think that’d really tickle him.

No joke, John is my next door neighbour (neighbor, as he would say) here in Chapel Hill. Want me to move his wheelie bins to the other side of the street so he has 30 seconds of confusion and a slightly longer walk on Monday morning?? That’ll show him.

I’m offended you follow more than one Welshman on here tbh.

This is such a bleak watch 😭

As a Welshman in the American South, I can confirm that this is a life changing moment.

BUT MY BOY ISACKKK

While we’re at it, can we start compensating all people who are detained pre-trial and then found not guilty?

Adventures of a Brit in 🇺🇸, part 482…

Don’t even know where to start.

Adventures of a Brit in 🇺🇸, part 482…

Don’t even know where to start.

Oh this is going to be an EXCELLENT hypo for teaching 801(d).

Amazing! What’s the thinking behind writing as a (secondary) pseudonym, if that name is only to be dwarfed by the primary pseudonym? Is it to make it easier for cataloguing, or just to separate your novel writing from your excellent non-fiction books?

Celebrated my 4th anniversary of living in the US the only appropriate way:

Beans on toast for lunch.

Ugh. Balls.

Spa or Austria for me, having ticked off Silverstone years ago

a man in a prison cell with a quote that says hope is a dangerous thing ALT: a man in a prison cell with a quote that says hope is a dangerous thing

Ghost don’t do this to me don’t be putting this hope on my tl

Finally: vindication of my seemingly scandalous take that Marbury was the worst decision of its time which has resulted in the current shitshow weaponisation we’re seeing.

My worst (and most NC-coded) take is that I like Pepsi more.

Not that it is better. Just that I like it more.

Make of my taste what you will.

“Puzzling at best” is doing some massive lifting here…!

Playing a very dangerous game of “I’ll just grab the next one from the fridge” currently.

So far out, in fact, that I did not even know it existed!