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Friday, June 15, 2012

“U.S. Court of Appeals removes federal judge from two cases, including Paul Bergrin’s trial”: The Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey has this news update.

The Bergen County (N.J.) Record has a news update headlined “Case reassigned for former lawyer Paul Bergrin who is accused of murder.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court removes judge from NJ attorney’s murder case after government makes bias claim.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in the Bergrin case here and today’s ruling in the other case reassigned here.

Posted at 10:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ninth Circuit Issues Response on Circuit Conference”: Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski today sent this 13-page letter to the Ranking Members of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Budget Committees about the Ninth Circuit’s upcoming Judicial Conference in Maui, Hawaii.

A related statement from Circuit and Court of Appeals Executive Cathy A. Catterson can be accessed here.

Posted at 9:07 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gupta appeal will be ‘very difficult,’ Holwell says”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

Posted at 5:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“McConnell decries efforts to undo ‘Citizens United'”: Todd Ruger has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Posted at 5:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Thurmond Rule”: Today at the “Taking Note” blog of The New York Times, Andrew Rosenthal has a post that begins, “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced this week that he is imposing a blockade on President Obama’s nominations to the circuit courts.”

Posted at 5:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“In second book, Scalia, Garner warn judicial decisions leading to ‘descent into social rancor'”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Carter honored for appointing women, African Americans to the federal bench”: This article appears today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Posted at 1:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“Reading Scalia’s New Book for Hints on Health Care Ruling”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 1:07 PM by Howard Bashman



“Montana — big sky, clean politics: Can the state preserve its limits on corporate money in elections?” Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock has this op-ed today in The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 1:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“In New Book, Scalia and Garner Attack Unprincipled Judicial Opinions”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Posted at 12:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Justice Speaks at American Constitution Society Conference”: As noted here, C-SPAN intends to provide live coverage at 6 p.m. eastern time this evening.

Posted at 8:06 AM by Howard Bashman



“Trial lawyers, anti-abortion group stymie judicial-selection bill”: Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an article that begins, “Only weeks after the indictment of State Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin on campaign-finance law violations, a legislative bid to end the partisan election of appellate judges has come to an abrupt halt because of opposition by trial lawyers, anti-abortion activists, and others.”

Posted at 7:55 AM by Howard Bashman