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Thursday, February 22, 2018

“VW, class counsel ask 9th Circuit to refuse fees for ‘ghost lawyers'”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

Posted at 10:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Reward increased to $1.5M for info on killer of federal prosecutor Tom Wales; The appearance of U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during a Wednesday news conference underscores the high priority the Justice Department has placed on the 16-year-old case”: Mike Carter and Steve Miletich of The Seattle Times have this report.

And James Fallows of The Atlantic has an article headlined “A Cryptic Addition to a Long-Standing Murder Mystery: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein flew to Seattle for a press conference at which he announced little, but may have said a great deal.”

Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“In Win for Justice Minister, Israel Appoints U.S. Professor as Supreme Court Judge; Prof. Stein chosen despite criticism he hasn’t lived in Israel for past 15 years; Judge Ofer Grosskopf granted second Supreme Court appointment”: Revital Hovel of Haaretz has this report.

And Yonah Jeremy Bob of The Jerusalem Post reports that “Supreme Court gets more conservative with appointment of two new justices; Shaked and Hayut reached a deal on two justices: Stein for Shaked, and Grosskopf for Hayut.”

Posted at 7:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“U.S., Microsoft fight over access to digital data stored overseas reaches Supreme Court”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

Posted at 7:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Clarence Thomas should be removed from Supreme Court, Charlotte accuser says”: Jim Morrill of The Charlotte Observer has this report.

Posted at 6:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Supreme Court shaped by Trump could decide gun control”: Columnist Charles Lane has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

Posted at 5:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Prisoners Lose Out in High Court Attorneys’ Fees Battle”: Kimberly Robinson and Madison Alder of Bloomberg BNA have this report.

Posted at 2:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Clinic’s Efforts Culminate as Heytens Argues City of Hays; Law Student Who Worked on Case Watches Arguments Play Out”: University of Virginia School of Law student Rebecca Sciarrino has this report.

Posted at 2:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Don McGahn Has Become the Worst White House Counsel Ever”: Cristian Farias has this post at the “Daily Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

Posted at 2:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. Supreme Court again asked to stop Pennsylvania voting map”: Lyle Denniston has this post at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

Posted at 2:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justices Air Differences on Value of Congressional Reports; High court appears as divided as ever on giving weight to legislative history”: Todd Ruger of Roll Call has this report.

Posted at 10:34 AM by Howard Bashman



“SCOTUS cites CGEL (props to Justice Gorsuch and the Supreme Court Library)”: Neal Goldfarb has this post at his blog, “LAWnLinguistics.”

Posted at 10:22 AM by Howard Bashman



“What Clarence Thomas Gets Wrong About the Second Amendment: The justice’s consistent pro-gun arguments fail to reconcile rights with their lived consequences.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 8:54 AM by Howard Bashman