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Saturday, September 3, 2016

“Misleading ballot question may raise judge’s retirement age”: Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an editorial that begins, “A deadlocked Pennsylvania Supreme Court has unfortunately left intact an 11th-hour change in the wording of a ballot question that will determine when state judges must retire.”

Posted at 9:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Missouri ordered to name supplier of lethal injection drugs”: Tony Rizzo has this front page article in today’s edition of The Kansas City Star.

The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court rules against Missouri in execution drug case.”

And Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post reports that “Death-Row Inmates Have A Right To Know The Identities Of Lethal Injection Suppliers, Court Rules; Missouri can’t keep secret the names of those who provide it with pentobarbital, a deadly anesthetic.”

You can access yesterday’s non-precedential ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 1:08 PM by Howard Bashman