{"id":162479,"date":"2026-09-09T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/09\/missouri-gerrymander-case-flunks-remedial-law-school\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:37:16","slug":"missouri-gerrymander-case-flunks-remedial-law-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/09\/missouri-gerrymander-case-flunks-remedial-law-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Gerrymander Case Flunks Remedial Law School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Missouri\u2019s state supreme court barred the state from implementing the Republican legislature\u2019s new gerrymandered maps for this November\u2019s election on state constitutional grounds. After an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court \u2014 the only appeal available per 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1257 \u2014 failed to disturb that ruling, a federal district judge went ahead and decided alone \u2014 despite 28 U.S.C \u00a7 2284 requiring a three judge panel \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/the-supreme-court-wouldnt-save-missouris-gerrymander-a-trump-judge-did-it-anyway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong<\/a>. Among the many, many deficiencies in Chief Judge Stephen Clark\u2019s judicial misadventures, we ask: What is the name of the doctrine prohibiting state court losers from asking a federal court to throw out a state court judgment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hint: The name stems from two cases, 60 years apart, and draws its statutory justification in part from the aforementioned <strong>28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1257<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/missouri-gerrymander-case-flunks-remedial-law-school\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missouri Gerrymander Case Flunks Remedial Law School<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Missouri\u2019s state supreme court barred the state from implementing the Republican legislature\u2019s new gerrymandered maps for this November\u2019s election on state constitutional grounds. After an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court \u2014 the only appeal available per 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1257 \u2014 failed to disturb that ruling, a federal district judge went ahead and decided alone \u2014 despite 28 U.S.C \u00a7 2284 requiring a three judge panel \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/the-supreme-court-wouldnt-save-missouris-gerrymander-a-trump-judge-did-it-anyway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong<\/a>. Among the many, many deficiencies in Chief Judge Stephen Clark\u2019s judicial misadventures, we ask: What is the name of the doctrine prohibiting state court losers from asking a federal court to throw out a state court judgment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hint: The name stems from two cases, 60 years apart, and draws its statutory justification in part from the aforementioned <strong>28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1257<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/missouri-gerrymander-case-flunks-remedial-law-school\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missouri Gerrymander Case Flunks Remedial Law School<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri\u2019s state supreme court barred the state from implementing the Republican legislature\u2019s new gerrymandered maps for this November\u2019s election on state constitutional grounds. After an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court \u2014 the only appeal available per 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1257 \u2014 failed to disturb that ruling, a federal district judge went ahead and decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}