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How U.S. 5th Circuit judges read briefs

On my Louisiana Civil Appeals blog, I have a post about something I just learned about how U.S. Fifth Circuit judges read briefs, and how this information should inform our decisions about where we put our citations (text versus footnotes). If you’d like your next Fifth Circuit brief to be judge-friendly, you need to read it. (Hint: It has something to do with hyperlinks, such as in this blog post.)

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