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Saturday, June 13, 2009

“Firefighters Case: What Really Happened; The more you examine the New Haven affirmative-action case, the more indefensible it looks.” You can access at this link the brand new installment of Stuart Taylor Jr.’s weekly column for National Journal. Last week’s installment of Taylor’s column was headlined “Race: Sotomayor And Obama Versus Voters; It’s clear that Americans want racially preferential affirmative-action programs abolished.”

And at Time magazine’s web site, law professor Jeffrey Rosen has an essay entitled “Where Sonia Sotomayor Really Stands on Race.”

Posted at 8:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Allows Civil Lawsuit Over Claims of Torture”: Sunday in The New York Times, John Schwartz will have an article that begins, “The decision issued late Friday by a judge in San Francisco allowing a civil lawsuit to go forward against a former Bush administration official, John C. Yoo, might seem like little more than the removal of a procedural roadblock. But lawyers for the man suing Mr. Yoo, Jose Padilla, say it provides substantive interpretation of constitutional issues for all detainees and could have a broad impact.”

Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article headlined “Judge: Ex-Bush lawyer can be sued over torture.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Judge rules terrorist can sue over torture memos.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California at this link (via “Constitutional Law Prof Blog“).

Posted at 8:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Feds want secrecy over alleged torture flights”: Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, “The Obama administration increased its defense Friday of secrecy surrounding an alleged CIA program of torture flights, asking a federal appeals court to set aside its ruling allowing foreign captives to sue a Bay Area company that reportedly helped plan the flights.”

The Associated Press reports that “Feds ask court to reconsider CIA renditions suit.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “New claim of ‘state secrets’ doctrine.” You can access the federal government’s petition for rehearing en banc at this link.

Posted at 8:00 PM by Howard Bashman