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Thursday, April 8, 2010

“High-Court Hamlet: Justice Stevens’s public pondering.” Dahlia Lithwick will have this essay in the April 19, 2010 issue of Newsweek.

Posted at 11:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Across the Border, Over the Line”: Linda Greenhouse has this post at the “Opinionator” blog of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Federal appeals court upholds Judge Michael T. Joyce’s conviction, sentence; Federal court rejects former judge’s appeal”: Yesterday’s edition of The Erie Times-News contained an article that begins, “The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction and sentence of former state Superior Court Judge Michael T. Joyce, of Erie.”

You can access Tuesday’s non-precedential ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

Posted at 12:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“School principals appeal ruling in lengthy Plano free speech case”: Today’s edition of The Dallas Morning News contains an article that begins, “The court case over candy canes continued Wednesday as the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals listened to arguments on the liability of two Plano principals named in the lawsuit. Three judges heard appeals in a packed courtroom at Southern Methodist University, where the court is based this week. The candy cane case arose in 2003, when administrators at Plano’s Thomas Elementary School stopped an 8-year-old boy from distributing candy cane pens with religious messages on them.”

Posted at 8:10 AM by Howard Bashman



“Battle brews over Obama nominee for 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; Senate Democrats reject a Republican bid to postpone a hearing on Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

The Washington Post reports today that “Appeals court nominee Liu causes battle in Senate.”

Josh Richman of The Oakland Tribune reports that “GOP steps up attacks on UC-Berkeley’s Goodwin Liu.”

And The Yale Daily News reports that “Liu LAW ’98 faces scrutiny.”

Posted at 8:05 AM by Howard Bashman