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Saturday, March 21, 2015

“Bradley, Daley air differences in first joint appearance”: In yesterday’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Bruce Vielmetti had an article that begins, “At the first of four scheduled joint appearances, the candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court justice made their differences clear Thursday in Milwaukee.”

Posted at 11:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Confederate Plates Case”: The Texas Tribune has this report.

Yesterday at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston had a post titled “Argument preview: When the license plate speaks.”

And online at The Daily Beast, Ilya Shapiro has an essay titled “In Defense of Confederate License Plates: Allowing the Confederate flag on Texas license plates would offend a lot of people, but Texas’s decision to nix the Stars and Bars tramples the First Amendment.”

Posted at 11:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Burt Neuborne discusses his new book on the First Amendment with Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Dean Trevor Morrison”: NYU School of Law has posted this video online at YouTube.

Posted at 4:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“In wake of apology, ex prosecutor calls for abolishment of death penalty; Stroud: State shouldn’t fight Ford’s effort to gain compensation for wrongful incarceration.” The Times of Shreveport, Louisiana has this report.

Yesterday, the newspaper published a letter to the editor written by A.M. “Marty” Stroud III under the headline “Lead prosecutor apologizes for role in sending man to death row; Stroud: Death penalty is ‘abomination that continues to scar the fibers of this society.’

Posted at 2:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Proposed measure would require condoms in porn”: Josh Richman of The Oakland Tribune has a blog post that begins, “All porn actors working in California would have to wear condoms, under a new proposed ballot measure that Secretary of State Alex Padilla has cleared to start circulating for signatures.”

Posted at 1:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Beheaded Security Workers’ Families Lose Appeal”: Courthouse News Service has a report that begins, “Families of U.S. contractors kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq almost a decade ago lost their appeal challenging the government policies they say contributed to their relatives’ deaths.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 11:46 AM by Howard Bashman



“Fox News Wants Appeals Court to Examine Transformational Value of Social Media; The cable news network is defending a lawsuit that alleges it violated copyright to a 9/11 photo by using it on Facebook to commemorate the anniversary”: Eriq Gardner had this post yesterday at the “Hollywood, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

Posted at 11:22 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court to decide if Confederate flag licenses plates are a First Amendment right”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau has this report.

Posted at 11:18 AM by Howard Bashman