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Sunday, April 10, 2011

“Several pivotal voting rights cases with N.C. ties still resonate; As legislators in the state and nationwide start redistricting, the names Gingles, Shaw and Strickland will be heard”: This article appears today in The Charlotte Observer.

Posted at 8:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court declines to clarify rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees”: Robert Barnes will have this article Monday in The Washington Post.

Posted at 8:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“High court to address issue of lawyering”: Today’s edition of The Arizona Republic contains an article that begins, “Daniel Cook was scheduled to die by lethal execution last Tuesday morning in Florence for murdering two men in 1987. Cleve Foster was scheduled for execution that same evening in Huntsville, Texas, for a 2004 murder. But in the eleventh hour, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the executions of both men. The issue: how to address claims that their convictions and death sentences arose out of bad lawyering.”

Posted at 8:11 PM by Howard Bashman