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Friday, March 20, 2015

“Bar Exam, the Standard to Become a Lawyer, Comes Under Fire”: Elizabeth Olson has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 2:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Civil rights group challenges man’s arrest for saying ‘dirty words'”: The Chattanooga Times Free Press has this report.

Posted at 1:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Fight over Texas License Plate With Confederate Flag Heads to High Court; Sons of Confederate Veterans say state’s rejection of plate violates their free-speech rights”: Jess Bravin has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 1:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“High Court ruling clears way for Loyola’s religious studies course; Loyola High School’s legal battle over Quebec’s compulsory ethics and religious culture course took six years and involved three court cases”: The Montreal Gazette has this report.

The Toronto Globe and Mail reports that “Supreme Court sides with Quebec Catholic school on religious freedom.”

And The Canadian Press reports that “Supreme Court rules Quebec infringed on Loyola High School’s religious freedom; Montreal school wanted to opt out of Quebec’s ethics and religious culture course.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link.

Posted at 12:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Freakout From An Obamacare Ruling Could Be Unlike Anything We’ve Seen”: Jonathan Cohn of The Huffington Post has this report today.

Posted at 12:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Feds argue they had no duty under FOIA to search Hillary Clinton’s emails”: Today at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a post that begins, “The federal government had no duty under the Freedom of Information Act to produce emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent or received on a privately maintained account, Justice Department lawyers suggested to a federal appeals court late Thursday.”

Posted at 12:00 PM by Howard Bashman