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Monday, September 28, 2015

“Everything You Need To Know About The Big Supreme Court Cases The Justices Will Hear This Term”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online today at ThinkProgress.

Posted at 11:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Humane Criminal Justice Is Not Hopeless: The Supreme Court is beginning to take cruel and unusual punishment seriously — just like Pope Francis is.” Robert J. Smith has this jurisprudence essay online today at Slate.

Posted at 11:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“When Judges Rely on Their Own Online Research: A recent Seventh Circuit ruling tests the use of information gathered from the Internet.” Aaron S. Bayer recently had this essay in The National Law Journal.

Posted at 10:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Death row inmate Richard Glossip denied stay, Wednesday execution to move forward”: Graham Lee Brewer of The Oklahoman has this news update.

The Tulsa World has a news update headlined “Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denies Richard Glossip’s execution challenges.”

The Associated Press reports that “Oklahoma appeals court says Glossip’s execution can proceed.”

And Reuters reports that “Oklahoma court denies motion to halt execution of Glossip.”

Posted at 4:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“Bloomberg Poll: Americans Want Supreme Court to Turn Off Political Spending Spigot; Americans are divided on the justices’ decisions on gay marriage, health care, and abortion; But not on campaign finance.” Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

Posted at 10:33 AM by Howard Bashman



“President Bush’s Judiciary At Ten Years, and Looking Forward to 2017”: Josh Blackman has this post today at his blog.

Posted at 10:28 AM by Howard Bashman



“Chief Justice John Roberts Amasses Conservative Record, and the Right’s Ire”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:25 AM by Howard Bashman