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Monday, March 4, 2013

“From Wary To Full Embrace: Obama’s Complete Turnaround On Gay Marriage.” Sahil Kapur of TMP DC has this report.

Bloomberg News reports that “Wealthy Gay Couples Seen Paying More If Unions Legalized.”

Online at Bloomberg View, law professor Cass R. Sunstein has an essay titled “Same-Sex Marriage and the Long Arc of History.”

Online at Slate, Emily Bazelon has a jurisprudence essay titled “How the Supreme Court Should Rule on Gay Marriage: The justices don’t need to make gay marriage legal everywhere; In fact, a more modest ruling could be much more powerful.”

In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has an op-ed titled “A third possibility on Prop. 8: The Supreme Court could decide the opponents of gay marriage have no legal standing.”

And Columbia Law School today issued a news release headlined “Professor Sarah H. Cleveland and Visiting Scholar Harold Hongju Koh File Brief in Marriage Case; Amicus Brief Argues U.S. Supreme Court Should Consider Example of Other Liberal Democracies, Which Have Determined Excluding Gay Couples From Marriage Violates Their Fundamental Rights.” You can view the amicus brief at this link.

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“Judge Declares Mistrial in Drug Case at Center of Landmark Supreme Court Ruling”: Mike Scarcella has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

At Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post titled “Alleged Drug Dealer at Center of Supreme Court GPS Case Wins Mistrial.”

In late January 2013, the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology held a symposium about the case. You can view video from the symposium via this link.

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“EPA nomination sets stage for court struggles on climate change”: Tom Curry, national affairs writer for NBC News, has this report.

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“Fearing Deluge of Litigation, Supreme Court Works the Floodgates”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

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“Noncuratlex.com Breaking News: SCOTUSblog Unveils Plan to ‘Eliminate the “Middle Man,”‘ Start Issuing Own Opinions.” Kyle Graham has this post at his blog, “Noncuratlex.com.”

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“Senate Democrats Again to Push for Vote on D.C. Circuit Nominee Halligan”: Todd Ruger has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

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“[P]ublic services provided in response to an emergency are just that — public services — and therefore are not subject to reimbursement.” So holds a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a decision issued today.

The Court’s opinion begins, “After the February 12, 2009 crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, plaintiff-appellant County of Erie, New York sued defendants-appellees Colgan Air, Inc., Pinnacle Airlines Corp., and Continental Airlines, Inc. to recover its expenditures in responding to, and cleaning up after, the accident.”

Posted at 11:52 AM by Howard Bashman



Access online today’s ruling in an argued case of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court today issued one decision in an argued case.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court in Levin v. United States, No. 11-1351. All of the Justices other than Antonin Scalia joined the decision in full. Justice Scalia joined the decision nearly in full. You can access the oral argument via this link.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Court says Guam man can sue gov’t over surgery.”

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“The Next Gun Control Battle: A Right To Carry Firearms in Public?” Adam Cohen has this essay online today at Time magazine’s web site.

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“Injured worker lawsuit at Ohio Supreme Court spotlights deliberate-intent-to-harm standard”: This article appears today in The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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“Requiem for a dream: Aaron Swartz was brilliant and beloved; But the people who knew him best saw a darker side.” Larissa MacFarquhar has this lengthy article in the March 11, 2013 issue of The New Yorker.

Posted at 8:15 AM by Howard Bashman