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Lost in the world of legal procedure and substantive case law, the pro se litigant often finds himself confused and overwhelmed, if not frustrated and bitter. Throughout their litigation, pro se litigants are confronted with numerous difficulties,…

Many scholars have recognized that divided decisions provide a window into a court’s inner sanctum. Divided decisions by a high tribunal reveal the dissenters’ and separate concurrers’ high principals and deeply held differences with the majority…

There has been a dramatic change in the make-up of the Court of Appeals in the last few years (authored in 1994). The seven-member Court of Appeals has a new chief judge, Judith Kaye, and three new associate judges, George Bundy Smith, Howard Levine…

In May 2009, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, a case brought by an immigrant of Pakistani descent caught up in the worldwide investigation that followed the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001. In that decision, the…