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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Their escape “was the first from any secure federal correctional facility since April 2006”: Readers may recall the story of two bank robbery convicts who escaped from the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago in December 2012. Wikipedia provides this coverage.

I covered the escape and recapture of the convicts in posts that you can access here, here, here, and here.

Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision rejecting the appeal from the sentence imposed for the escape filed by the escapee who eluded recapture the longest.

In February 2014, The Chicago Tribune reported on the sentence that was the subject of this appeal in an article headlined “Jail escapee tells judge to ‘stick it’ at sentencing.”

Posted at 10:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Amicus: Cameras in the Courtroom — Two Supreme Court experts explain why they don’t buy the justices’ arguments that they shouldn’t be filmed in action.” Slate has today posted online this podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick.

Posted at 10:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Pom Wonderful loses appeal of FTC’s deceptive advertising ruling”: The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal has an article headlined “Pom Wonderful’s Ads Were Deceptive, Appeals Court Agrees With FTC; Pomegranate Juice Maker Said Its Products Were Effective in Fighting Heart Disease, Prostate Cancer.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

And Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau reports that “California pomegranate juice maker loses labeling challenge.”

Posted at 9:30 AM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Rendell to take on ‘senior status'”: In today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jeremy Roebuck has an article that begins, “Marjorie O. Rendell, a federal appellate judge and the wife of former Gov. Ed Rendell, said Friday that she plans to leave her spot on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit this summer and devote more time to her foundation for the civic education of area youth.”

Posted at 9:15 AM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Thomas Scolds Circuit Over Unpublished Opinion”: David R. Cleveland has this post at the “Appellate Advocacy Blog.”

Posted at 8:57 AM by Howard Bashman