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Thursday, February 26, 2015

“‘Sniper’ Case Is Headed to Appeal, Lawyers Say”: Manny Fernandez will have this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Litmus Test for ObamaCare and the Rule of Law: The president has ignored the law’s plain language; Now the Supreme Court decides if that’s all right.” Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

You can freely access the full text of the op-ed via Google.

Posted at 10:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justices on the stage: Why Americans are increasingly fascinated by their highest court.” David Rennie has this essay in the February 28, 2015 issue of The Economist magazine.

Posted at 9:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Can life in prison be worse than death? Some Tsarnaev jurors think so.” Masha Gessen of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 8:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“2nd Circuit was right to curtail insider trading cases: profs’ amicus brief.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

One of the amicus briefs to which Frankel’s article links discloses that Reed Smith practices law at Cooley LLP. And, demonstrating that turnabout is fair play, a Google search discloses that Cooley practices law at Reed Smith LLP.

Posted at 8:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Justice Talks Constitution, Structure Of Government During Fort Smith Visit”: The Times Record of Fort Smith, Arkansas has this news update.

Posted at 8:21 PM by Howard Bashman



The Missouri Law Review symposium issue celebrating the late Anthony Lewis and exploring the future of legal journalism is now available online: You can access the contents via this link.

The issue includes Adam Liptak’s keynote address and articles written by, among others, Lincoln Caplan (“Anthony Lewis: What He Learned at Harvard Law School“); Lyle Denniston (“Anthony Lewis: Pioneer in the Court’s Pressroom“); Linda Greenhouse (“The Rigorous Romantic: Anthony Lewis on the Supreme Court Beat“); Dahlia Lithwick (“Anthony Lewis“); Howard Mintz (“Legal Journalism Today: Change or Die“); Gene Policinski (“Setting the Docket: News Media Coverage of Our Courts — Past, Present and an Uncertain Future“); David A. Sellers (“As Today’s Tony Lewises Disappear, Courts Fill Void“); and former Missouri Chief Justice Michael A. Wolff (“Making Judge-Speak Clear Amidst the Babel of Lawspeakers“).

And for those who like to watch, you can access videos from the symposium — which occurred a little over one year ago — via this link.

Posted at 8:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Roberts at 10: Turning Back the Clock on Protections for Racial Equality.” David H. Gans has this issue brief online at the Constitutional Accountability Center.

Posted at 6:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“How a federal judge pushed Big Tobacco into $100 mln deal with smokers”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight yesterday had a report that begins, “In July 2013, a federal appeals court overseeing thousands of individual smokers’ suits against Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard threw up its hands in defeat.”

Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“US Supreme Court says NC dental board can’t regulate teeth whitening”: The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

In today’s edition of The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that “Justices Find Antitrust Law Valid Against Dental Board.” In addition, Vikas Bajaj has a “Taking Note” essay titled “A Plot to Keep Teeth Whitening Expensive.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court restricts state license schemes that limit competition.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “Justices: Dentists can’t decide who whitens your teeth.”

Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal has an article headlined “Supreme Court Affirms FTC Antitrust Authority Over Licensing Boards; Decision protects power of regulators to scrutinize such professional panels.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau has a blog post titled “Supreme Court says ‘open wide’ to North Carolina teeth-whitening business.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Professional Boards Opened to New Scrutiny by Top U.S. Court.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court says state dental board can’t regulate teeth whitening.”

And Nina Totenberg of NPR has a blog post titled “Dentists Have No Right To Limit Who Can Whiten Your Teeth, Justices Say.”

Posted at 8:16 AM by Howard Bashman



“Poster Child: How Terrance Williams became the face of the death penalty debate in Pennsylvania.” Andrew Cohen has this essay online today at The Marshall Project.

Posted at 8:06 AM by Howard Bashman



“Future of ‘mental anguish’ law at stake in federal court”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Mumia Abu-Jamal, who’s serving a life term for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer, is among the plaintiffs asking a federal judge to block a Pennsylvania law they say violates prisoners’ free-speech rights.”

Posted at 8:02 AM by Howard Bashman