Courts And Litigation News

Exclamations in the Courtroom: A Judge’s Punctuation Gets Noticed

A Lawfare column critiques Judge Richard Leon’s heavily punctuated, exclamation-mark–heavy opinion in Kelly v. Hegseth, arguing the stylistic flourishes are arresting but risk distracting from the underlying legal questions around ripeness, military justice, and the role of a judge’s expressive style in judicial writing.