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Friday, August 4, 2017

“Supreme Court’s next big gun control case? Post-Newtown laws face new scrutiny.” Fred Lucas of FoxNews.com has this report.

Posted at 7:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“D.C.’s concealed-carry regulations just suffered a shot across the bow”: Doug Pennington has this essay online at The Washington Post.

Posted at 7:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“Could Congress Simply Codify the DOJ Special Counsel Regulations?” Rick Pildes has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

Posted at 3:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Legacy of Justice Scalia with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg”: The Aspen Institute has posted this video on YouTube.

Posted at 1:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“State board names highway span for Henry Frye, former N.C. Supreme Court chief justice”: Taft Wireback of The News & Record of Greensboro, North Carolina has this report.

Posted at 1:45 PM by Howard Bashman



S’all is not good, man: Today, Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton issued an opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that begins, “A sting operation blends fiction with non-fiction.”

The opinion goes on to explain that “[i]n this instance, Matthew King, a lawyer, agreed to commit a real crime (by laundering the supposed proceeds of non-existent drug sales) and offered to do so on the basis of a money-laundering technique observed on a fictional T.V. show (by imitating Saul Goodman, a lawyer character on Breaking Bad, who set up a sham corporation to launder drug proceeds).”

Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Murder conviction in Blackwater case thrown out, other sentences overturned”: Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post has this report.

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. court tosses murder conviction of ex-Blackwater guard.”

You can access today’s 119-page ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — consisting of a lengthy per curiam opinion followed by separate writings from each of the three judges on the panel — at this link.

Posted at 1:11 PM by Howard Bashman