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Plaintiff argued (with no opposition from the defendant), Proceeding under a pseudonym is appropriate in this appeal because the facts of the underlying case directly relate to Plaintiff's sensitive health information. Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that Capital Health installed a tracking pixel on its website that transmits its patients' names and…

Long opinions, long captions, and valuable considerations.

Wedding officiants, teaser profiles, and administrative animals.

Zombie jokes, perplexing paths, and a handsy officer.

From Edenfield v. State, decided Wednesday, in an opinion by Judge Bilbrey and joined by Judge Winokur, with Judge Long concurring in the result (for more on the Range case, see here): We deny Appellant's amended motion for rehearing, rehearing en banc, and to certify a question of great public…

Courts are generally inclined to allow litigants to remain pseudonymous to conceal their being transgender (see The Law of Pseudonymous Litigation, p. 1406); but they are also inclined to deny pseudonymity once the plaintiff had already identified himself or herself, and this is what made the difference in yesterday's decision…

Huge tracts of land, Dad does The RICO, and poor prosecutorial behavior

A rough ride, an injury in law, and sexy polygraphs.

Fake Instagram accounts, offensive Facebook comments, and pro se parents.

Today's en banc decision in Range v. Attorney General so concludes, in a majority opinion by Judge Hardiman, which got the votes of nine of the fifteen judges. The challenger in this case pleaded guilty in 1995 to making a false statement to obtain food stamps; because this was in…

PHILADELPHIA — A federal appellate court has revived a lawsuit from a Temple University professor who sued the U.S. government six years ago after he was falsely accused of being an economic spy for China.