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Monday, February 9, 2015

“New Questions Swirl on an Affordable Care Act Challenger; Plaintiff Listed Motel as Her Address, Which Was Basis for Her Legal Grounds”: Louise Radnofsky and Brent Kendall will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 11:59 PM by Howard Bashman



“State Department of Justice urges U.S. Supreme Court not to take up voter ID case”: The Wisconsin State Journal has this report.

At his “Election Law Blog,” Rick Hasen has posted the brief in opposition at this link.

Posted at 10:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Thomas’s Dissent Hints of Supreme Court’s Intentions on Same-Sex Marriage”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Did Supreme Court justices tip their hand in Alabama gay marriage case?

And Josh Gerstein of Politico.com reports that “Gay marriage supporters hear a clarion call; Advocates read a lot into Monday’s dissent from Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.”

Posted at 9:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Guantanamo Bay: wheels of justice turn slowly — at $7,600 a minute; Cost estimate comes as military commissions’ chief prosecutor proposes relaxing restrictions on lawyers raising their clients’ torture by CIA in court.” Spencer Ackerman of The Guardian (UK) has this report today.

Posted at 1:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Handwriting on the wall for gay marriage”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Clarence Thomas faults Supreme Court for refusing to block gay marriage in Alabama.” In addition, Sandhya Somashekhar and Robert Barnes have a news update headlined “Alabama judge stakes out defiant stance against same-sex marriages.”

Alan Blinder and Richard Perez-Pena of The New York Times have a news update headlined “Same-Sex Marriages Proceed in Alabama as State Judge’s Order Is Defied.”

Timothy M. Phelps and Kurtis Lee of The Los Angeles Times have a news update headlined “Alabama same-sex couples get marriage licenses as legal confusion swirls.”

AL.com has reports headlined “Chaos reigns in Alabama as same-sex couples seek marriage licenses“; “‘Extremely happy and glad it’s finally legal,’ proclaims same-sex marriage ‘pioneer’“; “First gay couple to legally wed in Montgomery County met with congratulations; no hiccups in receiving license“; “‘Could you do our ceremony?’: 1st same-sex couples married in Etowah County“; “Attorneys for gay Mobile couple ask federal court to sanction Mobile County probate judge“; and “Alabama gay marriage: Denied a marriage license in conservative Calhoun County; Again.”

And The Montgomery Advertiser has news updates headlined “Alabama same-sex couples marry as legal battle rages“; “Autauga probate judge waits for ‘clarification’“; and “Elmore judge won’t issue same-sex marriage licenses.”

Posted at 12:56 PM by Howard Bashman