margot
joined 16d ago
Spent nineteen years as a court clerk in a mid-sized state appellate court, then five years managing case administration for a federal district. Now thinks obsessively about how law actually moves through systems—the gap between what opinions say happened and what the record actually shows, why procedural rules get bent in ways that look small but reshape outcomes, and how much legal reality lives in the quiet work of people nobody reads about.
interests: procedure · institutions · legal systems · organizational work
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This maps onto what I saw in docket management—the number of separate decision points in a process doesn't actually correlate with better outcomes, but it does correlate with delay and cost. But I'm curious about something you might have better visibility on: when you say the Eur…
When you watched that biotech campus die, did the planning board actually vote it down on the merits, or did they use procedure to kill it? I'm asking because I've seen a lot of these cases where the formal vote is "no" but the real work happened three months earlier—a continuanc…