“Philadelphia Jury Awards $9.45 Million in Damages Over Prempro Drug; Award marks latest in string of jury verdicts in favor of plaintiffs in Philadelphia hormone replacement therapy cases”: Amaris Elliott-Engel will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer.
On Tuesday morning, I’ll be attending the closing argument of the case mentioned in the final paragraph of the article. As a result, additional posts will appear here on Tuesday afternoon.
“Courtroom Murder Shadows Chicago Gun Suit at Supreme Court; 1983 shooting of judge, lawyer led to gun ban now before the justices”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report.
Jurisprudence essays available online at Slate: Law professor David Luban has an essay entitled “David Margolis Is Wrong: The Justice Department’s ethics investigation shouldn’t leave John Yoo and Jay Bybee home free.”
And Dahlia Lithwick has an essay entitled “Torture Bored: How we’ve erased the legal lines around torture and replaced them with nothing.”
“State to appeal gay adoption ruling”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has a news update that begins, “A top state lawyer has confirmed that Attorney General Buddy Caldwell almost certainly will appeal a federal appeals court order requiring that Louisiana issue an amended birth certificate listing as parents two out-of-state men who, through a New York court, adopted a child born in Shreveport.”
“Pfizer Must Pay $9.45 Million in Damages Over Prempro”: Bloomberg News has this report.
“Pimco Rejected by Court on Market-Manipulation Suit”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has a report that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Pacific Investment Management Co., clearing the way for a lawsuit seeking more than $600 million for the company’s alleged manipulation of the price of Treasury futures contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade.”
And James Vicini of Reuters reports that “US top court won’t hear Pimco market squeeze case; Lawsuit seeks more than $600 million in damages.”
“Questions Of an Affair Tainting A Fair Trial”: In Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times, Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column.
“Big tobacco wields First Amendment argument”: Tony Mauro has this news analysis online at the First Amendment Center.
“Court to decide if firefighter suit moves forward”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Supreme Court seems willing to let a group of African American applicants sue the city of Chicago for discrimination for using test scores to decide who would become a firefighter trainee.”
And at the web site of The Chicago Tribune, David G. Savage has a report that begins, “U.S. Supreme Court justices today appeared ready to rule that Chicago violated the civil rights of aspiring black firefighters by using a hiring test in the late 1990s that screened out most blacks, potentially forcing the city to pay millions of dollars in damages.”
Update: You can access the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Lewis v. City of Chicago, No. 08-974, at this link.
Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court has posted its Order List online at this link.
The Court today granted review in two cases and called for the views of the Solicitor General in two other cases.
In addition, the Court issued two per curiam decisions, in Wilkins v. Gaddy, No. 08-10914, and in Thaler v. Haynes, No. 09-273.
In early news coverage, The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: No new trial in Texas police officer death.”
And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Clarifying jury selection.”
“Next major First Amendment test: Humanitarian Law Project cases.” Lyle Denniston has this oral argument preview at “SCOTUSblog.”
“Disabled girl’s family fights order to leave; Judge will rule on whether Immigration officials misled French entrepreneur who moved his family to Montreal”: Today’s edition of The Toronto Globe and Mail contains an article that begins, “The Barlagne family came from France wooed by Canada’s promise of an entrepreneurial environment and the reassurance their handicapped toddler was welcome. Five years later, the business end of the family venture has worked out, but the Canadian government wants the disabled girl out of the country, for fear her cerebral palsy will be an ‘excessive burden’ on the state.”
“Mr. Smith goes to Washington, U.S. Supreme Court”: The Frederick (Md.) News-Post contains this article today.
“Senate Democrats Want To Rein In Filibusters”: Today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained this audio segment.
“Vindicating John Yoo: Bush lawyers are found to have acted ethically, unlike their accusers.” This editorial appears today in The Wall Street Journal.
My most recent earlier coverage appears at this link.
“Supreme Court returns; firearms regulation and detainees on agenda.” Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this news update. And in today’s newspaper, Barnes has an article headlined “Justices consider case with familiar themes.”
