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FedKite covers the federal courts, the bar, and the bookshelf with equal attention. We profile trial attorneys, review legal nonfiction and crime fiction, and track verdicts that shift precedent. Our newsletter lands Wednesdays with the week's best legal reads and courtroom dispatches.
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FedKite is a law-and-culture publication covering federal courts, attorney profiles, law journals, and verdict analysis.
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New articles appear throughout the week. The newsletter goes out every Wednesday with the best legal reads and courtroom dispatches.
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Our contributors include practicing attorneys, legal journalists, and book critics. Each profile is fact-checked with the attorney's firm before publication.
The Cover Story
The Advisory Guidelines at Twenty: Has Booker Delivered on Its Promise?
Two decades after the Supreme Court made the Federal Sentencing Guidelines advisory, we examine whether sentencing discretion has been restored — or just rearranged.
Latest Dispatches
Inyo County v. Paiute-Shoshone: When a Tribe's Sovereignty Met a County's Subpoena
The 2003 Supreme Court decision that tested the boundaries of tribal sovereign immunity against state investigative power — argued by John D. Kirby.
Qualified Immunity: The Refinement That Never Happened — and Why It Still Matters
Three decades ago, a Cornell law student proposed a functional test for qualified immunity. The Supreme Court still hasn't adopted it. The lower courts are starting to.
The Advisory Guidelines at Twenty: Has Booker Delivered on Its Promise?
Two decades after the Supreme Court made the Federal Sentencing Guidelines advisory, we examine whether sentencing discretion has been restored — or just rearranged.
Attorney Spotlight
Profiled, photographed, and on the record. Meet the lawyers shaping the docket this quarter.
