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Thursday, April 27, 2017

“Employee’s pay based on past salary OKd by court”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that begins, “An employer can pay a woman less than a man for the same work if the man was paid more at his previous job and if the employer had a reasonable policy to justify reliance on past salaries, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.”

And Sudhin Thanawala of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Employers can pay women less based on past salaries.”

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

Posted at 10:50 PM by Howard Bashman



A criminal defendant’s lawyer missed attending seven minutes of a 31-hour trial, resulting in a 281-page ruling of the en banc Eleventh Circuit: That’s more than 40 pages of opinion per minute that defense counsel was absent. You can access the entire ruling at this link.

Posted at 10:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Austin Abortion Clinic Reopens After Supreme Court Ruling. Will Any More Follow? Whole Woman’s Health is accepting appointments in Austin this week while about two dozen other clinics remain closed in the wake of HB 2.” Sophie Novack of The Texas Observer has this report.

Posted at 8:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Panel: Probable cause that R.I. Supreme Court justice Flaherty violated ethics code.” Katie Mulvaney of The Providence Journal has this report.

Posted at 7:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“For Arkansas Community, an Execution Is ‘the One We’re Waiting On'”: Alan Blinder and Manny Fernandez of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 7:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘Blurred Lines’ Appeal Brief Says Artists Can’t Copyright a Groove”: Ashley Cullins has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

Posted at 7:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Difficult legal path forward for Trump in sanctuary cities case”: Mica Rosenberg and Dan Levine of Reuters have this report.

Posted at 6:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Has the 9th Circuit gone ‘bananas’? And can Trump break it up?” Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this report. And David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news analysis headlined “How some of the Supreme Court’s conservative opinions may lead to a liberal victory on sanctuary cities.”

Michael Doyle of McClatchyDC has a report headlined “With a cudgel and some code words, Trump goes after the judges who displease him.”

And online at The Hill, law professor Jonathan Turley has an essay titled “There are good reasons to split the 9th Circuit, but Trump’s reason isn’t one.”

Posted at 6:45 PM by Howard Bashman