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Friday, July 29, 2016

“PETA Tells Appeals Court That Human Authorship Isn’t a Copyright Requirement; The lawsuit that made copyright lawyers go ape is back for another round”: Ashley Cullins has this post today at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

Posted at 1:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“After Yemeni’s 13 Years in Guantanamo, Freedom for the Soul Takes Longer”: Charlie Savage will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 1:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“US Fourth Circuit overturns NC voter ID law”: Anne Blythe of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

Alan Blinder of The New York Times reports that “Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Provision.”

Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “Appeals court strikes down North Carolina’s voter-ID law.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “North Carolina voting restrictions struck down.”

The Associated Press has a report headlined “Appeals court: North Carolina voter ID law is discriminatory.”

And Reuters reports that “North Carolina voter ID law struck down by U.S. appeals court.”

You can access today’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 1:08 PM by Howard Bashman



Second Circuit reinstates Title IX suit brought by male student against Columbia University challenging disciplinary process that found him “responsible” for “sexual assault: non-consensual sexual intercourse” and imposed year-long suspension: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

Posted at 11:22 AM by Howard Bashman



“‘Iron Man’ Composer’s Lawsuit Over Ghostface Killah Sampling Revived by Appeals Court; Sony must against face copyright claims over the rapper’s second album, ‘Supreme Clientele,’ and could be headed for the kind of trial that would go into some nuance about Marvel’s history”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

Posted at 11:06 AM by Howard Bashman



“Could Republicans’ Supreme Court Obstructionism Cost them the Senate?” Jay Michaelson has this essay online at The Daily Beast.

Posted at 11:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“Ex-Bush official, now judge, OKs torture challenge”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that begins, “A federal appeals court in San Francisco revived a challenge to extradition Thursday by a Mexican man who said the evidence against him was obtained by torture, in a ruling written by a judge best known for approving torture of suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush administration.”

You can access yesterday’s en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 10:52 AM by Howard Bashman



“[I]f a suspect refuses to take a polygraph examination, the government shouldn’t be allowed to introduce the refusal as substantive evidence or to comment on the refusal to the jury”: By a vote of 6-to-3 (with a senior judge also dissenting from the denial of panel rehearing only), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit yesterday failed to grant rehearing en banc in a case that could have allowed the full court to issue the sort of holding described in the title of this post.

You can access yesterday’s order denying panel rehearing and rehearing en banc, and the dissent therefrom (which dissent the source of this post’s title), at this link.

Posted at 10:44 AM by Howard Bashman



“Federal Appeals Court Rejects Protections For Gay People Under Existing Civil Rights Law; Sexual orientation discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people can only come from the Supreme Court or Congress, the federal appeals court in Chicago rules”: Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued yesterday.

Posted at 10:38 AM by Howard Bashman