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Monday, April 10, 2017

“Reflecting on 15 Years of Covering Appellate Developments”: On May 6, 2017, this blog will celebrate its 15th birthday. I offer some reflections on the past and future of covering appellate developments in the new installment of my “Upon Further Review” column, which will appear in tomorrow’s issue of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

Posted at 5:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“For online publishers, editing can lead to copyright liability: 9th Circuit.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.

Posted at 3:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why Democrats have no regrets after McConnell’s ‘nuclear’ blast: They were convinced the GOP would kill the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, if not now, then in the future.” Elana Schor of Politico.com has this report.

Posted at 1:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Scotus: A Gloriously Predictable Beat . . . Until It Wasn’t.” Adam Liptak had this article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 12:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Neil Gorsuch being sworn in as 113th Supreme Court justice”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

C-SPAN will broadcast online the public swearing-in ceremony live from the White House at 11 a.m. eastern time today. You can access the video via this link at that time.

Posted at 9:48 AM by Howard Bashman



“How Merrick Garland could torment Trump: The spurned Supreme Court nominee has had a lot to say about deregulatory initiatives like the one the president’s pushing.” Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.

Posted at 8:23 AM by Howard Bashman



“How Will Gorsuch Decide on Cases from the Supreme Court’s April Calendar?” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

Posted at 8:17 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Conservative Pipeline to the Supreme Court: With the Federalist Society, Leonard Leo has reared a generation of originalist elites; The selection of Neil Gorsuch is just his latest achievement.” Jeffrey Toobin has this Annals of Law article in the April 17, 2017 issue of The New Yorker.

Posted at 8:15 AM by Howard Bashman