John Hawkinson

Cambridge, MA freelance reporter, usu. @CambridgeDay. MIT; public recs; data; legal news #appellatetwitter Lately: immigration.
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#cambma municipal 2025 election realtime results from me: https://t.co/Qlc0AIKQ2U

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Wyden and Kennedy introduced a bill to modernize PACER

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@courtneybuble URL for the last graf?

"Full text of the Open Courts Act is available HERE"

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@OrinKerr @KannonShanmugam But "doesn't everyone learn this in History of Science class?"
Logs!

Weirdly I picked up a sliderule for a lawyer friend's wife 2 weeks ago at the local used tool store...$2.50.

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@thattomjohnson @joshgerstein I mean, one had a strike and the other didn't. Obviously different kinds of entities.

(I wonder what would happen if the LIRR refused to let Amtrak run track geometry cars over the Harold Interlocking? cf. Amtrak v. MNR in SDNY before Rakoff)

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@TylerMcBrien @allyjarmanning You should propose a link to the viz. in the Google Doc.

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@LASeubert @DukeSilverBells @AmtrakNECAlerts Yeah, looks like the first 8 or so trains (in both directions) on Saturday are cancelled too, through around 10am. And who knows if they'll cancel more.

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@AmtrakNECAlerts Conductor 179 tells us we're being held at BOS (departure) for downed catenary at PVD. Can you let us know if it's Amtrak or MBTA's responsibility and some rough idea of the minimum delay? Thanks.

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@DukeSilverBells @AmtrakNECAlerts I am impressed they decided to cancel 179 at 8:29pm, basically 45 minutes into the outage. Usually it takes a longer to decide

(Maybe that means its really bad?)

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KSENIIA PETROVA (Harvard clawed frog embryo computational biologist) wins her Vermont habeas case on partial summary judgment: the Court finds the cancellation of her visa was arbitrary and capricious and must be set aside, & therefore the revocation of her visa is set aside.

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@MongerTruffle @kyledcheney My bad, and right you are and I was off by a week.

I distinctly remembered something like this, but I cannot seem to find it so I dunno.

Sorry and thanks for the correction.

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@AmtrakNECAlerts thanks for this and the subsequent push and text updates. Some trains have arrived and left so it would be nice to have an operational understanding of what can still happen tonight.

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@AmtrakNECAlerts how about some updates on the derailment at south station and whether 169 will run or cancel?

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

JUST IN: Judge William Young (Reagan) in fine fettle as he mostly denies DOJ's motion to stay remedy for 'breathtaking misconduct' in deportation drive v. pro-Palestinian activists. Young mocks DOJ for undercutting Trump's unitary executive claims. Doc: https://t.co/SLAAGGD2cg

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@BaniasLaw (I did actually try to find it and failed. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.)

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@smmarotta And somehow they're still permitting a world where SAUSAs don't have functioning DOJ emails (or something) & cannot get orders from judges that are docketed in CM/ECF without hearing from an anonymous paralegal?

This should not be acceptable.

An appearance must mean something?

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@smmarotta Reading the 9-page order, things are much worse than I thought.

"This Court would never allow a private attorney or litigant to rely on an “I’m too busy” excuse to justify disobedience of a court order. The Government is no different."

Except apparently it still is.