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Thursday, June 2, 2011

“Court Lets City Ban Worship Services in Schools”: This article will appear Friday in The New York Times.

The New York Daily News has an update headlined “Appeals court backs NYC over keeping religious services out of public schools.”

The Associated Press has a report headlined “Appeals court: NY can block school worship service.”

And Reuters has a report headlined “New York public schools may bar after hours religion: court.”

My earlier coverage of today’s Second Circuit ruling appears at this link.

Posted at 10:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Army judges weigh military trials for civilians”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Three Army judges are weighing a question that hasn’t cropped up in decades: whether a civilian contractor working for the U.S. military can be tried in a military court. The issue eventually could end up at the Supreme Court.”

Posted at 6:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Chevron Looks to Arbitrators to Save It From $18B Pollution Payout”: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has this article (via The New York Times). The article is the third in a three-part series. Parts one and two can be accessed here and here, respectively.

Posted at 5:52 PM by Howard Bashman



Today’s Pa. Supreme Court filing: Today in the case captioned Daniel v. Wyeth, I filed plaintiffs’ answer in opposition to Wyeth’s petition for allowance of appeal. Wyeth is asking the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to review a ruling that the Superior Court of Pennsylvania issued in the case earlier this year.

Bloomberg News has previously covered the case in articles headlined “Pfizer Told to Pay $10 Million Over Prempro Verdict“; “Pfizer Jury Said to Set Prempro Punitive Damages at $8 Million“; and “Wyeth’s Prempro Caused Woman’s Cancer, Jury Says.”

Posted at 5:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Brentwood man cleared to sue over cat’s shooting”: In today’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, “The market value of a stray cat with a crippling pellet wound is zero, or close to it. But for his devoted owner in Brentwood, a male tabby named Pumkin was well worth the tens of thousands of dollars it took to save his life and restore some of his mobility. Now a state appeals court has issued a first-of-its-kind decision in California, ruling that whoever shot Pumkin can be required to pay his medical expenses.”

You can access Tuesday’s ruling of California’s Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District at this link.

Posted at 11:54 AM by Howard Bashman



California Supreme Court to “Pimp Your Ride“? At 1 p.m. eastern time today, the Supreme Court of California is scheduled to issue its ruling in People v. Zambia, a case that presents the following questions:

(1) Does the offense of pandering require the specific intent to encourage another person to become a prostitute?; and

(2) Can a defendant be convicted of pandering for offering to act as a pimp for a woman who appears to be already working as a prostitute?

Once the decision is posted online, you can access it via this link.

Update: By a vote of 5-2, today’s ruling of California’s highest court does not appear to contain good news for pimps.

Posted at 11:47 AM by Howard Bashman



“Court tackles health care law; Key Obama initiative on local docket”: The Cincinnati Enquirer contains this article today.

Last night, I had this post containing additional news coverage and links to the audio of the oral argument.

Posted at 10:50 AM by Howard Bashman