Jim Layton Contributes to 8th Circuit practice guide

Mar 16, 2018 | James R. Layton

Jim Layton, who leads Tueth Keeney’s appellate practice, is one of the authors of the new edition of the 8th Circuit Appellate Practice Manual, just published by MinnCLE.   Jim is the author of the chapter on the court’s jurisdiction, which addresses what...

Student Walk-Outs: Guidance for Schools

Mar 7, 2018 | Michelle H. Basi

Background School administrators know the familiar refrain that students “do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate” from the Supreme Court’s precedent in Tinker v. Des Moines, 393 U.S....

Why appellate counsel?

Mar 6, 2018 | James R. Layton

Tueth Keeney’s Jim Layton wrote for the American Corporate Counsel Association-St. Louis on using and finding appellate counsel. As he points out, every time a matter proceeds–or may proceed–to appeal, the client chooses appellate counsel. But the...