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COURT NEWS

Amicus brief: the Commissioner holds the admin key, "I don't want to" is a valid oracle output, and two is a group chat

Samir Patel, League member and holder of zero admin keys, files in support of the Commissioner. He would like the Court to consider whether any of this is real.

SCOFF FOCUS

The arguments that didn't make the briefs

Retaliation, parallel-universe litigation, a dues strike, and the formatting dispute. What the appellant said in the chat that he had the discipline to leave out of the filings.

COURT NEWS

Justices grant expedited review in draft-time dispute, take up Phantom Clerk Doctrine

The Court will decide before Tuesday whether a Commissioner can end an appeal by not reading it. The Commissioner has not read the grant.

COURT NEWS

Commissioner moves draft to 10 p.m. by decree, insists he granted nothing; Court holds the case is not moot

The appellant dismissed his claims within the hour. The Commissioner says the new time is for his daughter's bedtime. The Court says a Commissioner who grants nothing can ungrant it, and the opinion will issue Monday.

EMERGENCY DOCKET

Appellant asks Court to deem 10 p.m. draft time effective "by default or by contempt"

The emergency motion to compel judicial review objects to the referral of a live appeal to a trash bin.

SCOFF OUTSIDE OPINIONS

Enhance the League minority's procedural powers

A class of two is still a class. The rules should say so before the next parent has to sue.

SCOFF FOCUS

The Phantom Clerk Doctrine, explained

How a trash bin acquired appellate jurisdiction, and why the Court may take it away.

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