How Appealing



Tuesday, April 26, 2016

“Warrantless Surveillance in Terror Case Raises Constitutional Challenge”: Charlie Savage will have this article in Wednesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Constitution Check: Do labor unions have a new answer to right-to-work laws?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

Posted at 8:07 PM by Howard Bashman



“Bob McDonnell’s strange bedfellows; As the ex-Virginia governor challenges his corruption conviction in the Supreme Court, scores of top Democrats and Republicans are rooting him on”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.

Posted at 7:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Opponents of North Carolina’s Voter ID Law Appeal Ruling”: Alan Blinder of The New York Times has an article that begins, “The protracted battle over North Carolina’s voting rules moved to a federal appeals court on Tuesday, one day after a judge upheld the Republican-backed overhaul and increased the likelihood that the changes would be in effect for this year’s presidential election.”

Posted at 5:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justices weigh case of jury discharged, then called back”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices mull propriety of recalling discharged jury to duty.”

And online at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “Jury Verdicts Aren’t Magic Anymore.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Dietz v. Bouldin, No. 15-458.

Posted at 5:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court to Weigh Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s Corruption Case; McDonnell will have simple argument when he asks justices Wednesday to throw out conviction: Everybody does it.” Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 5:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Redskins throw serious shade at The Slants’ counsel in new cert petition”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

Posted at 5:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“How to Say ‘Privacy’ in U.S. and UK English”: Online at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay that begins, “Americans think they have a God-given right — or least a constitutional one — to the details of celebrity sex lives.”

Posted at 5:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“GOP Senate Candidate Says Obama’s Supreme Court Pick Deserves A Vote; It’s the Senate’s job to act on nominees, says David Jolly”: Jennifer Bendery of The Huffington Post has this report.

Posted at 5:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“Defining Corruption Downward: Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell asks the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the gifts he took, and the favors he performed, were just politics as usual.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

Posted at 1:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court decides for N.J. police officer in free-speech case”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court strengthens free-speech rights of public employees.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Justices protect free speech, even if unspoken.”

Paterson Press reports that “U.S. Supreme Court sides with ex-Paterson police officer in free speech case.”

The Associated Press reports that “High court sides with police officer in free speech case.”

And Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News reports that “Supreme Court Sides With Demoted Worker In First Amendment Challenge; A 6-2 win for public employees.”

Posted at 1:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Copyright Case Victor Returns to Supreme Court for Legal Fees”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

You can access at this link the transcript of yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., No. 15-375.

Posted at 10:44 AM by Howard Bashman



“Why the effort to keep Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court has been remarkably successful”: Mike DeBonis of The Washington Post has a report that begins, “Since Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly in February, the Judicial Crisis Network has been on the front lines of the conservative fight to keep President Obama from filling the unexpected vacancy on the Supreme Court.”

Posted at 10:32 AM by Howard Bashman



“Because Norris sufficiently alleged that Judge Camp was actually biased against him, we reverse and remand for an evidentiary hearing.” Circuit Judge William H. Pryor, Jr. yesterday issued this ruling on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in a case in which former U.S. District Judge Jack Camp (N.D. Ga.) presided over the defendant’s criminal trial.

As noted in this earlier “How Appealing” post, Camp resigned from the federal bench on the same day he pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges in November 2010.

Posted at 10:28 AM by Howard Bashman



Access online today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in an argued case: The Court today issued a ruling in one argued case.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court in Heffernan v. City of Paterson, No. 14-1280. Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

Posted at 10:05 AM by Howard Bashman