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Court Finds Offer and Acceptance in Email
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Get ready for a flashback to first-year Contracts, with a modern twist. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled recently that a bank and a hospital had formed...
Cancel the Subscription: SCOTUS is Over Sua Sponte Issues?
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
A Colorado inmate is heading back to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge his murder conviction 25 years after a court convicted him. Patrick Wood...
ADX Prison Transfer Didn't Violate Terrorists' Due Process Rights
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
The ADX Florence supermax prison has been described as "the Alcatraz of the Rockies" and "a clean version of Hell." It's not surprising that prisoners hope to...
No Substantial Evidence: Tenth Circuit Reverses ALJ's Ruling
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Thanks to Astrue v. Capato -- and most federal benefits cases we’ve come across in the last year -- we're stuck with this idea that the courts are constantly...
Gregory Phillips Up for 10th Cir: the Power of Law School Friends
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
Wyoming-born, Wyoming-raised, and Wyoming-educated, you might just call Attorney General Gregory Phillips "Mr. Wyoming." Generations of his family have come...
Felon-in-Possession Priors: Propensity Evidence or Intent?
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
Propensity evidence or proof of knowledge? It's a tricky question. Timothy "New York" McGlothin's apartment was searched after he was identified as a suspect...