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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

“Gossip magazine’s celebrity wedding photos broke law, court says”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has a blog post that begins, “A federal appeals court decided Tuesday that a gossip magazine violated copyright law by publishing photographs of a secret celebrity wedding.”

And Courthouse News Service reports that “9th Circuit Rejects Tabloid’s Fair-Use Claim.”

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

Posted at 7:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Kennedy Stands by Circuit Conference”: Today. the Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a news release that begins, “Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy stood by the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Monday, saying that the gathering here of the federal bench and bar from the western states was ‘a prudent and a proper exercise of the judicial function.'”

The Ninth Circuit has also posted the prepared text of Justice Kennedy’s remarks today at the judicial conference in Maui.

Posted at 5:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice race no easy win for GOP; Democrats’ rare advantage: Candidate is an incumbent.” Today in The Cincinnati Enquirer, Dan Horn has an article that begins, “Sharon Kennedy had one big advantage last year when she launched her campaign to become the first Butler County resident elected to the Ohio Supreme Court in almost 150 years. She’s a Republican. A GOP majority has dominated the court for more than a decade, and no Democrat has been elected since 2000. This time around, though, party affiliation alone might not be enough.”

Posted at 8:59 AM by Howard Bashman



“Retired Supreme Court justice to visit Anchorage; Sandra Day O’Connor will promote online civics program”: The Associated Press has this report.

Posted at 8:55 AM by Howard Bashman



“Democrats could oust chief justice candidate; Lyon under fire over comments, ‘bizarre behavior'”: This article appears today in The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.

Posted at 8:50 AM by Howard Bashman



“Sanders, McCloud advance in Supreme Court race”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Former Washington Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders has a chance to get his old job back.”

Posted at 8:45 AM by Howard Bashman