Talk:Harry Litman

Proposed edits II 13 May 2022

• Specific text to be added: "worked as a feature film production assistant in New York City"[2].
• Reason for the change: This was deleted. I'd like to request that it get added again.
• References supporting change: Here is a citation from IMDB from the King of Comedy. There were other films as well but not with my name in the credits, that being very unusual for a production assistant. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0514395/

76.88.61.155 (talk) 18:17, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

 Not done iMDb is not a reliable source. PRAXIDICAE💕 18:18, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

I found an affiliated source for this, so I've added it as noncontroversial so okay coming from that. Valereee (talk) 16:42, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Proposed edit 16 Nov 22

• Specific text to be added or removed:

Litman lives in La Jolla with his wife, Julie Roskies Litman, a mathematician, 3 time jiu jitsu world champion, and former professional bass player. They have three school age children; David, Lila, and Toby. Litman's parents, Roslyn Litman and David Litman, represented future NBA star Connie Hawkins in his successful suit to be admitted into the league. Ms. Litman pursued the case, an unconventional challenge to antitrust law, with her husband and law partner, S. David Litman, and another lawyer, Howard Specter. They argued that the N.B.A. had in effect illegally banned Mr. Hawkins and deprived him of the “opportunity to earn a livelihood.” Litman's sister, Jessica Litman, is a renowned copyright scholar at the University of Michigan.

• Reason for the change: This section was previously deleted. However, many pages similar to this contain sections on families especially when they are particularly interesting and pertain to the person. As for including the Hawkins case, this was a very prominent case in itself--a whole best-selling book, Foul, has been written about it, but also a chief reason why Harry Litman wound up going to law school.

• References supporting change:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210125015536/https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-in-the-media/mathdigest-200309-polygon https://www.ibjjfdb.com/ChampionshipResults/895/PublicRegistrations?lang=en-US https://www.ibjjfdb.com/ChampionshipResults/895/PublicResults https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2020/04/25/harry-litman-at-home-cnn-talking-head-adds-talking-feds-podcast-to-portfolio/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/us/roslyn-litman-antitrust-lawyer-and-civil-liberties-advocate-dies-at-88.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/nyregion/connie-hawkins-brooklyn-basketball-playground.html 76.88.61.155 (talk) 18:25, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

 Partly done: I couldn't go through paywall and couldn't verify info about being a bass player and representation of Connie Hawkins. Also, there is too much information about the case, which goes beyond the purpose of this article. Finally, try connecting each reference to its respective text. Thinker78 (talk) 01:03, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

I've removed this; it's trivia in readers' understanding of this article subject. I understand these things are very important to the article subject, and I understand why he wants them in the article, but to a reader it is trivia.

I have just created the article Roslyn Litman; she appears to be notable. Valereee (talk) 13:00, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

@Valereee knowing basic information about the closest relatives and certain others is common in pages in Wikipedia and something that I support. But it is a nice compromise that you created a whole article for her. Cheers! Thinker78 (talk) 00:58, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Citation requests

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• citation in question: Litman served as a law clerk to Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit;[citation needed]
• citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/us/politics/26mikva.html

“Judge Mikva’s clerks were a close-knit group, recalled Harry Litman, who clerked with Ms. Kagan for both Judge Mikva and Justice Marshall. Ms. Kagan clearly “was Mikva’s favorite,” Mr. Litman said, “but there was no sense of sycophancy to her.”  Done

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• citation in question: Litman developed a nationally recognized gun-violence reduction initiative known as Operation Target, and personally litigated cases in the district court and the court of appeals.[citation needed]
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Personally litigated: District court: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/90234304/ Court of appeals: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-3rd-circuit/1153540.html  Done

Operation Target: https://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000124guns1.asp (cityed by Pres Clinton as one of four mode3l anti-fun programs natiowide) – https://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010417litman2.asp; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1531366  Done

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• citation in question: After leaving government, Litman was appointed a Distinguished Visitor and Fellow at Princeton University's Program in Law and Public Affairs.[citation needed]
• citation: https://lapa.princeton.edu/history/2010-2011_annual_report.pdf  Done

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• citation in question: He previously wrote for The Washington Post.[13] He has contributed opinion commentary to the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Lawfare.[citation needed]
• citation:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-10-22/steve-bannon-house-subpoena-executive-privilege-criminal-contempt-merrick-garland https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/opinion/trump-clinton-mcgann-prosecution.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/02/this-race-could-be-bellwether-future-prosecution/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703339304575240380083814238 https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/opinions/att-merger-decision-and-the-wages-of-trump-litman/index.html https://www.lawfareblog.com/dont-expect-trump-testify-anytime-soon  Not done

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• citation in question: He previously taught at Berkeley Law School, Georgetown Law School, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, and Rutgers University–Camden Law School.[citation needed]
• citation: Rutgers catalog: http://catalogs.rutgers.edu/generated/cam-law_0911/pg184.html  Done

https://www.duq.edu/about/centers-and-institutes/cyril-h-wecht-institute-of-forensic-science-and-law/litman  Not done  Done, found it on wayback machine Valereee (talk) 15:31, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

• citation in question: Currently Litman is a regular commentator on legal issues on National Public Radio (NPR)[14] and for cable television networks including MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.[citation needed] . Litman also provides legal and political analysis on BBC News and France 24.[citation needed]
• citation:

https://www.msnbc.com/yasmin-vossoughian-reports/watch/judge-orders-trump-and-children-to-testify-in-new-york-ag-investigation-13358189367 https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/harry-litman-says-trump-organization-was-rotten-to-its-core-113947717825 http://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/politics/trump-subpoena-james-new-york-lawsuit/index.html http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/tv/2022/02/15/exp-tsr-todd-mazars-accounting-severs-ties-with-trump-org.cnn.html https://video.foxnews.com/v/6047697266001?playlist_id=2114913880001#sp=show-clips  Not done

2600:1700:7C09:4A00:18B:FA5F:724D:E9E9 (talk) 23:05, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Okay, I see now. This is a really confusing way to offer this to us. What really helps is something like

Replace

Litman served as a law clerk to Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit;

with

Litman served as a law clerk to Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit;

Remember that we are all volunteers here. Every last one of us, and we have our own interests. Make your requests as easy as possible for us to help with. Valereee (talk) 13:17, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

• The Duquesne source comes up as a 404 error. Valereee (talk) 14:12, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

References

Future edit requests

The best way to deal with edit requests is to make them one at a time, and in this format:

Replace

Litman served as a law clerk to Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit;

with

Litman served as a law clerk to Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit;

References

This will:

1. Format the request in a way that makes it easy to understand, which makes it more like someone will want to help
2. Provide a citation for us to simply copy/paste, which ditto
3. Automatically list the citations in an easy-to-scan way, which ditto
4. Allow editors to address a single issue without having to go through your post a dozen times, which ditto

You can take a look at the source code here (click "edit source" next to the section header) to see what I've done. the reflist talk template is what makes a list of the sources at the bottom of the post. The hash sign numbers a list and makes it all start in the same place. The ref template is an easy template for a very simple citation (just title and url, which is the minimum needed).

Valereee (talk) 15:40, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

removal of banners

I've removed the banners because most of the cns have been addressed and the COI editing seems to have stopped. I'm still wondering about possibly assessing some of the content for noteworthiness for inclusion, checking to make sure nothing that should be here isn't. Valereee (talk) 16:29, 18 November 2022 (UTC)