“‘Let’s Go Crazy’ suit: Woman whose kitchen video was yanked from YouTube wins court ruling.” Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this news update.
Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has a news update headlined “Demand that mother remove home video from YouTube backfires.”
Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News reports that “California court bolsters ‘fair use’ of music, movies in online posts.”
And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court clears way for trial over dancing baby video.”
My earlier coverage of today’s Ninth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.
“SEC not entitled to deference in State Street fraud appeal — law prof”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.
“Who Feeds the Supreme Court? The judges who send law clerks — the future leaders of the legal profession — are still white men.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online today at Slate.
Among other things, Lithwick’s essay discusses a paper that Alexandra G. Hess has posted at SSRN titled “The Collapse of the House that Ruth Built: The Impact of the Feeder System on Female Judges and the Federal Judiciary, 1970-2014.”
“A Shifting Balance at the California Supreme Court? A look at the state Supreme Court’s newest justices.” Law professor Gerald F. Uelmen and Kyle Graham have this article in the September 2015 issue of California Lawyer magazine.
“A Look Back on the Supreme Court’s Turbulent 2014 Term: An analysis of the year’s biggest Supreme Court decisions.” Law professor Douglas W. Kmiec has this article in the September 2015 issue of California Lawyer magazine.
“Religious scruples and birth control: Is Obamacare at war with religion?” Steven Mazie has this post at the “Democracy in America” blog of The Economist.
“Kentucky Clerk Allows Same-Sex Licenses, but Questions Legality”: Alan Blinder of The New York Times has this news update.
“Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court justice: History’s swing vote.” Politico Magazine has this profile.
“High standard set in YouTube takedown — U.S. appeals court; Toddler dancing to Prince’s ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ prompts case; Fair use must be assessed before demanding video takedowns”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.
Joe Mullin of Ars Technica reports that “Appeals court strikes a blow for fair use in long-awaited copyright ruling; Copyright owners must consider fair use, and Universal now faces a trial over it.”
And at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter, Eriq Gardner has a post titled “Appeals Court: Copyright Owners Must Consider Fair Use Before Sending Takedowns.”
You can access today’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.
And the Electronic Frontier Foundation has this page devoted to the case.
In the September 21, 2015 issue of The New Yorker: Patrick Radden Keefe has “A Critic at Large” essay titled “Assets and Liabilities: The mobster Whitey Bulger secretly worked for the F.B.I.; Or was it the other way around?”
And Evan Osnos has an article headlined “The Imam’s Curse: A family accused of financing terrorists.”
“Virginia Has Solitary Confinement Case, if Justices Want It”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.
“Stephen Breyer’s ‘The Court and the World'”: Law professor John Fabian Witt will have this review of Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s latest book — “The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities” — in the Sunday Book Review section of next Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.
Elsewhere, Publishers Weekly offers this short review.
And yesterday at “Jost on Justice,” Kenneth Jost had a post titled “Justice Breyer Takes a Wide Worldview.”
“Law Beyond Our Borders: Justice Breyer Is On A Mission.” This audio segment featuring Nina Totenberg appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”
“Kentucky clerk won’t interfere with gay marriage licenses”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A defiant Kentucky clerk said Monday she will not interfere with her deputies if they keep issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but she declared they will not be authorized by her and questioned their validity.”
“Sandra and Ruth: The author of a new book about the first two female justices describes what it took for them to get to the high court.” Slate has posted online this new Amicus podcast, in which Dahlia Lithwick speaks with Linda Hirshman about Hirshman’s new book, “Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World.”
“Courts, states put death penalty on life support: Despite Supreme Court support, executions on the wane.” Richard Wolf and Kevin Johnson of USA Today have this report.
