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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

“A Day In The Life Of Waiting For The Supreme Court Decision On Marriage Equality”: Jennifer Bendery of The Huffington Post has this report today.

Posted at 11:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Texas Abortion Curbs Go Into Effect Soon, Unless Supreme Court Acts”: This audio segment appeared on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Posted at 11:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Here Are the Six Major Rulings We’ll Get From the Supreme Court This Week”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

Posted at 5:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Schools Fear Impact of Gay Marriage Ruling on Tax Status”: Laurie Goodstein and Adam Liptak will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 2:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Victims’ families, survivors speak at Tsarnaev sentencing”: Patricia Wen, Kevin Cullen, Milton J. Valencia, and John R. Ellement of The Boston Globe have a news update that begins, “Sharing profound pain and searing anger, relatives of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing and survivors of the blast delivered emotional victim impact statements Wednesday at the federal court hearing in Boston in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be formally sentenced to death.”

Posted at 11:48 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Rabbit-Hole of ‘Relevant'”: In this upcoming Sunday’s edition of The New York Times, Magazine, Mattathias Schwartz will have an essay that begins, “When a law has a name like ‘Patriot’ or ‘Freedom,’ it’s a sign that you should read the fine print.”

Posted at 11:46 AM by Howard Bashman



“FAN 65 (First Amendment News) Does Justice Thomas believe in a race-hate exception to the First Amendment?” Ronald K.L. Collins has this post today at “Concurring Opinions.”

Posted at 11:42 AM by Howard Bashman



“Reshaping the Supreme Court, our most disruptive branch of government”: Rachel Maddow has this essay online at The Washington Post.

Posted at 11:33 AM by Howard Bashman



“Eight Is Enough (Justices That Is): Let the Court Unpack Itself.” Yesterday at National Review’s “Bench Memos” blog, Michael Stokes Paulsen had a post that begins, “Brace yourself. When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retires from the Supreme Court this summer, it will set off a frenzy of Supreme contention: Who will President Obama nominate to replace Ginsburg?”

Posted at 10:06 AM by Howard Bashman



“Texas religious schools lose appeals court battle over ‘objectionable’ emergency contraception”: Allan Turner of The Houston Chronicle has this report. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

The Associated Press reports that “5th Circuit panel rejects challenge to birth control mandate.”

And at National Review’s “Bench Memos” blog, Matthew J. Franck has a post titled “Fifth Circuit Taken in by HHS Peek-a-Boo.”

My earlier coverage of Monday’s Fifth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

Posted at 10:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“Governors Seek to Curb Confederate Flag License Plates; Moves follow Charleston mass killing, Supreme Court ruling”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 9:50 AM by Howard Bashman



“I find myself increasingly uncomfortable with basing dismissals with prejudice on harmless procedural bobbles.” Yesterday, Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner issued a dissenting opinion that concludes:

The only argument in favor of such summary justice that I can imagine is that by punishing parties for their lawyers’ mistake we improve the quality of the bar; the lawyers who disserve their clients attract fewer new clients and eventually perhaps are forced to leave the practice — an example of the positive effect of competition on the quality of goods and services that a market provides. But while this is plausible in theory, I have to say that in more than 33 years as a federal court of appeals judge I have not noted any improvement in the average quality of the lawyers who appear before us. I find it difficult to believe that punishing Balagiannis and his lawyer by in effect a “fine” of $925,000 will promote the quality of legal representation in the courts of this circuit.

You can access yesterday’s complete Seventh Circuit ruling in the case at this link.

Posted at 8:32 AM by Howard Bashman