Archive for January 2021

You’ve probably seen a spell checker turn “tortious interference” to “tortuous interference.” Ouch! But how does MS Word’s new Editor handle more-sophisticated editing suggestions in legal documents? We report below; you decide.

  Impeachment language is stuffy and overwrought, and the middling BriefCatch scores for the new Resolution reflect that:     But even if we can’t punch up the prose here, all hope isn’t lost. We could fix this verb-form error and punctuation glitch:     We could use American punctuation conventions, clarify sources, and reconsider…

Originally written in March 2016 We’ve heard a lot about Merrick Garland’s sterling CV and seasoned age, but how does he fare as an opinion writer? For clues, I pored over his 2013 opinion in ACLU v. CIA, a Freedom of Information Act case about whether the CIA could refuse to confirm or deny that it had records related to…