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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

“Public’s Opinion of Supreme Court Drops After Health Care Law Decision”: Adam Liptak and Allison Kopicki will have this article Thursday in The New York Times.

Posted at 11:35 PM by Howard Bashman



“State Attorney General Kamala Harris backs undocumented immigrant’s law license bid”: Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News has an update that begins, “California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Wednesday sided with an undocumented immigrant’s bid to become a lawyer, telling the state Supreme Court that the law school graduate has a legal right to get his license to practice.”

Posted at 8:23 PM by Howard Bashman



“Melvin seeks hefty file on former employees”: In today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Paula Reed Ward has an article that begins, “Attorneys for a variety of Pennsylvania court administrators believe a request by state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin to turn over a slew of records relating to employment, bookkeeping, expenses and policies is not only overbroad but outside the scope of her preliminary hearing scheduled for July 30.”

And in related coverage, today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer contains an article by Gina Passarella headlined “Orie Melvin Loses Bid for Recusal of Allegheny Co. Bench” (subscription required) reporting on an order that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued yesterday.

Posted at 11:24 AM by Howard Bashman



“Intention and the Canons of Legal Interpretation”: At the “Opinionator” blog of The New York Times, Stanley Fish has a post that begins, “Those who are still wondering why Chief Justice John G. Roberts voted as he did in NFIB v. Sebelius might find an answer (not necessarily the answer) in Antonin Scalia’s and Bryan A. Garner’s new book ….”

Posted at 11:08 AM by Howard Bashman