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Sunday, April 5, 2015

“Wyoming Supreme Court plans to open judicial learning center”: The Casper Star-Tribune has an article that begins, “Construction of an interactive judicial learning center in the Wyoming Supreme Court building is set to begin in May, according to the State Bar Foundation.”

Posted at 10:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals court to consider religious exemptions in Baptist-based contraception case; U.S. appeals court to hear challengeover federal health care mandate”: Allan Turner of The Houston Chronicle has an article that begins, “The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week will take up a Texas case centering on how — or if — employees of religious colleges and nonprofits will be given free access to ‘morning after’ pills and related forms of birth control as mandated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.”

You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Posted at 10:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Nonprofit tax break proposal in Pennsylvania divisive”: In Monday’s edition of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Natasha Lindstrom will have an article that begins, “Auditor General Eugene DePasquale spent the past four weeks presiding over public hearings on a controversial proposal to change Pennsylvania’s Constitution so the Legislature has final say over which nonprofits get property tax breaks.”

Posted at 10:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Raises Partisanship Concerns”: Mitch Smith will have this article in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that “Voters on Tuesday to decide how state chief justice is selected.”

And Todd D. Milewski of The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin has an article headlined “Constitutional amendment is rush to replace chief justice, former Supreme Court member says.”

Posted at 9:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Lawmakers: Supreme Court policy to blame for secret recordings.” Mario Trujillo of The Hill has an article that begins, “The Supreme Court has itself to blame for the surreptitious recordings of court proceedings that have surfaced in the past year, some lawmakers say.”

Posted at 9:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“After Supreme Court, MGM Settles ‘Raging Bull’ Rights Dispute; A deal announced in court on Friday ends a fight that lasted more than two decades”: Eriq Gardner has this post today at the redesigned “Hollywood, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

Posted at 9:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court hears lots of interpretations of what it just said”: In Monday’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes will have an article that begins, “It would seem indisputable that the people who know better than anyone else what the Supreme Court was saying in its landmark decision on same-sex marriage are the nine justices themselves.”

Posted at 9:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Conservative lawmakers weigh bid to call for constitutional convention”: Reid Wilson of The Washington Post has an article that begins, “Conservative state legislators frustrated with the gridlock in Washington are increasingly turning to a plan to call a convention to consider a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution — an event that would be unprecedented in American history and one that could, some opponents predict, lead to complete political chaos.”

Posted at 8:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“Political speech or corruption?” Monday’s edition of The Washington Post will contain an editorial that begins, “In the Supreme Court’s landmark 2010 case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the court declared that corporate independent political expenditures are protected free speech under the First Amendment and cannot be constrained.”

Posted at 8:23 PM by Howard Bashman



“Rolling Stone Retracts Article on Rape at University of Virginia”: Ravi Somaiya will have this article in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

And Paul Farhi and T. Rees Shapiro of The Washington Post report that “Review of Rolling Stone U-Va. rape story finds layers of journalistic lapses.”

Rolling Stone has posted online the retraction as an introduction to an article headlined “Rolling Stone and UVA: The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Report — An anatomy of a journalistic failure.”

Update: The Columbia Journalism Review has itself published the critique at this link.

Posted at 8:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“Jay Edelson, the Class-Action Lawyer Who May Be Tech’s Least Friended Man”: Conor Dougherty has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 1:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Two High-Stakes High Court Debuts: Lawyers in first outings before Supreme Court will argue landmark marriage cases.” Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro will have this article in Monday’s edition of The National Law Journal.

Posted at 11:18 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court election of 2016”: Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift have this essay online at The Pocono Record of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

Posted at 10:52 AM by Howard Bashman