Shawn Nevers

Any case with a footnote that starts, "Curiously, the 'just and reasonable' rate requirement for oil pipelines is nowhere to be found in the current U.S. Code" is my kind of case. See, 105 F.4th 418 (D.C. Cir. 2024).

@LibraryBiker Good question. While it would have been messy because there are multiple amendments to the Act, I think the main reason is that the Bluebook abandoned citing to Acts in non-positive law titles years ago, which I think was a mistake.

@ShawnNevers Why not just cite the Act? Sheesh, we need to be teaching more Indian law (and citation) so maybe future judges will understand that to which they refer is not ancient history or deleted law!

Interesting case that shows one of the limits of current statutory compilation. Court wants to cite the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act, which was in the US Code, but was removed in 2016 by OLRC during a reclassification. So, court cites the US Code as it existed in 2012...1/3

Navajo Nation v. U.S., 2024 WL 1896133. 3/3

rather than the Act itself, because the Act has been amended several times. Of course, when you click on the link to the Code in WL, it takes you to the current US Code section which just says that the section has been omitted from the code. 2/3

New favorite federal district court alert. D. Mont. discusses postive law and cites The Shadow Code. Interesting case. Marquis v. Uecker, 2024 WL 416306.

Thanks to @dazzagreenwood for spending time with us today!

Vote.Org v. Callanen, 2023 WL 8664636 (5th Cir.).

Citing to the old US Code section when yours has been reclassified isn't a good look.

U.S. v. Ehmer, 2023 WL 8468120 (9th Cir. 2023).

Good reminder from the 9th Circuit yesterday not to rely on the organization of a U.S. Code title that hasn't been enacted into positive law.

@theFordon @jallison02140 @TheAALS @DickinsonLaw I'll be there!

@maricheney Awww, thanks @maricheney! That's very kind!

@LawScholarly I violated my general rule of no folded arms pictures and I'm regretting it.

@ShawnNevers Congratulations you handsome rogue.

Some news.

I seem very interested in my water in this picture. Thanks to @nmignanelli and the @yalelawlibrary for organizing this symposium. And thanks to the other authors for teaching me so much.

Excited to present my paper “The Treatise and the Code” at @YaleLawSch @yalelawlibrary today.

I’m a child of the ‘80s, so can’t help but be excited to hear LeVar Burton at #LegalWeek23.

First time at #LegalWeek23. Who else is here from the Law Library world?

Looking forward to participating in this!