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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

“Appeals court says Skilling convictions will stick”: The Houston Chronicle has this news update.

The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court upholds ex-Enron CEO’s convictions.”

Bloomberg News reports that “Enron Ex-Chief Jeffrey Skilling’s Convictions Confirmed by Appeals Court.”

And Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court upholds Jeff Skilling conviction.”

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

Posted at 10:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judiciary Could Limp Through Shutdown — for a While”: At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” David Ingram has a post that begins, “As most of the federal government and those who depend on it brace for a possible partial shutdown, the federal judiciary says there should be no visible disruption in its operations for two weeks.”

Posted at 6:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court race still too close to call, Kloppenburg has narrow lead”: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this news update.

The current vote tally (as of 10:12 a.m. central time) shows challenger Joanne Kloppenburg with a 311 vote lead over incumbent David Prosser.

Posted at 11:13 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supremely bad? Area case a top court ‘worst’; Even the U.S. Supreme Court can get it horribly wrong, legal scholars say, and a 1930s ruling in a case from Luzerne County was a classic.” Today’s edition of The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania contains an article that begins, “A case that began in Luzerne County has been named one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s biggest blunders by a panel of legal experts. The high court’s 1938 decision in the Erie v. Tompkins case changed the procedure by which civil suits involving parties from different states are decided in federal court.”

Posted at 8:32 AM by Howard Bashman



“Chief Justice Roberts makes under-the-radar visit to Utah”: Today’s edition of The Salt Lake Tribune contains an article that begins, “Third-year law student Rachel Wertheimer expected one of her professors or a guest lawyer to hear her argue for a hypothetical travel agency being sued by a Muslim man who claimed he had been wrongly fired because of his religion. So she was stunned when Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts heard her case, giving her the full Supreme Court treatment, diving in with questions before she finished her first sentence.”

Posted at 8:27 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court race still too close to call, Prosser has narrow lead”: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contains this article today.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports today that “Recount possible as Supreme Court race remains too close to call.”

The Los Angeles Times reports that “Wisconsin judicial election testing GOP’s power is a nail-biter; With 97% of precincts reporting, a normally quiet election that became a referendum on Gov. Scott Walker’s battle against public employee unions is too close to call.”

And The Wall Street Journal has a news update headlined “Wisconsin Judicial Vote Appears Headed for Recount.”

According to NBC News affiliate TMJ4, with 99% of precincts reporting, incumbent David Prosser has received 733,074 votes, while challenger Joanne Kloppenburg has received 732,489 votes.

Posted at 7:05 AM by Howard Bashman