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Friday, January 2, 2015

“Supreme Court could hear whooping crane case”: Scott Huddleston will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The San Antonio Express-News. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

My earlier coverage of the case can be accessed here.

Posted at 11:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trial Of Polygraph Critic Renews Debate Over Tests’ Accuracy”: This audio segment appeared on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Posted at 10:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Some Florida counties halt all courthouse marriages as gay weddings loom”: Reuters has a report that begins, “Wedding bells have stopped ringing in the courthouses of several northern Florida counties, where clerks opted to cease all marriage ceremonies rather than administer vows to gay couples when same-sex marriage becomes legal next week.”

Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“A New Legal Weapon For State DOT: Condemnation of ‘Intangible Property.'” Columnist Jon Lender of The Hartford Courant has this essay online today.

Posted at 9:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Unending Anxiety of an ICYMI World”: In the Style section of Sunday’s edition of The New York Times, Teddy Wayne will have a “Future Tense” essay that begins, “In case you missed it, the initials ICYMI stand for the first five words of this sentence.”

Posted at 6:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“The trouble with the Supreme Court’s go-slow approach to tech”: Jeff John Roberts has this post today at Gigaom.

Posted at 6:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“4 ex-judges from California in group appealing to Obama on Cuba”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Posted at 1:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘Affirmative Action’ In Law: The Four-Letter Phrase.” Renwei Chung has this post today at “Above the Law.”

Posted at 1:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Stakes For The Supreme Court Case Against Obamacare Are Getting Even Higher”: Tara Culp-Ressler has this post today at ThinkProgress.

Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“What does ‘exposes’ in ‘[a]ny person who abuses, exposes, tortures, torments, or cruelly punishes a minor’ mean to you?” Eugene Volokh has this interesting post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 1:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“We need an Asian-Pacific American on the Supreme Court”: Hayato Watanable has this post today at The Hill’s “Congress Blog.”

Posted at 1:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Federalist Rolling Papers: Two states’ rights advocates are pursuing a silly lawsuit to the Supreme Court that could undermine states’ rights.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 1:08 PM by Howard Bashman