Meridian Legal Analysis

Meridian publishes single-paragraph Safe-Use Notes that identify the precise conditions under which a judicial opinion can be relied upon — and when it cannot.

These notes are written for practicing lawyers who know the doctrine and seek to locate posture-dependent limits, hidden assumptions, or common over-extensions. This is not legal advice. This is not case summarization, headnotes, doctrinal restatement, or advocacy material.

What Meridian Is

Meridian is a behind-the-scenes legal analysis practice that augments traditional judicial reasoning with modern analytical tools to identify:

• hidden assumptions in judicial opinions
• posture-dependent limits on holdings
• conditions that must remain true for a case to be safely cited
• points where reliance breaks once framing, posture, or theory changes

Output is a single-paragraph Safe-Use Note per opinion — written for lawyers, not clients — answering one question: Under what precise conditions does this opinion actually do work?

What Meridian Is Not

• legal advice to clients
• case summaries or headnotes
• doctrinal restatements
• advocacy or briefing positions

Case Library Focus

The site currently addresses three areas:

• Arbitration — allocation, enforceability, FAA boundaries
• Civil Procedure — pleading, posture, and decision sequencing
• Employment Procedure — causation standards and stage-sensitive doctrine

Operating principle: Explore legal reasoning without overstating it. Precision, not volume.