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Friday, September 2, 2011

“D.C. Circuit Judge Ginsburg to Join NYU Law Faculty”: Zoe Tillman has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Posted at 4:12 PM by Howard Bashman



Is Wells Fargo, as a national bank, deemed a citizen only of the State of South Dakota, in which its main office is located, or is that bank also a citizen of California, where its principal place of business is located? A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit grappled with that question in a decision issued today.

Posted at 12:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Anonymous hits with a double attack”: Today’s edition of The Washington Post contains an article that begins, “Anonymous came out with two high-profile attacks on Thursday afternoon. First, the group claimed credit for defacing the site of the Texas police chiefs and leaking documents and e-mails from law enforcement officials. It also claimed credit for taking down the site of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California around 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.”

Posted at 11:52 AM by Howard Bashman



“Court Won’t Revisit Decision to OK Jail Mail”: Courthouse News Service has this report on an order denying rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.

Eight Ninth Circuit judges joined in an opinion dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc, while the two judges who constituted the majority on the original three-judge panel issued an opinion concurring in the denial of rehearing en banc.

Posted at 9:46 AM by Howard Bashman



“Courts must use Facebook, Twitter to counter ‘skewing of information’: Chief Justice.” The Australian Associated Press has this report.

Posted at 9:34 AM by Howard Bashman



“A Radical New Ploy to Destroy Roe v. Wade–Which Just Might Work”: Simon van Zuylen-Wood has this essay online at The New Republic.

Posted at 9:32 AM by Howard Bashman