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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

“Should Racism in the Jury Room Lead to a New Trial? The Supreme Court will hear the case of a Latino man convicted after racist sentiments were allegedly expressed during deliberations, but longstanding rules about juries would prevent him from getting a new day in court.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

Posted at 10:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“On ‘The Troublesome Use of Photographs . . . and Other Images’ in Federal Court Opinions”: Paul Horwitz has this post today at “PrawfsBlawg.”

Posted at 10:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Don Verrilli, Former Solicitor General, Predicts How the Supreme Court Might Impact Entertainment; After leaving the Obama Admistration to join Munger, Tolles & Olson, the attorney discusses the move”: Eriq Gardner has this post today at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Fruitful Arguments in Supreme Court Puerto Rico Bribery Case”: Jess Bravin has this post today at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”

Posted at 8:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“Markel suspect Rivera avoids trial, agrees to plea deal”: Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has an article that begins, “Luis Rivera will spend an additional seven years in prison in exchange for providing key information in the killing of Florida State law professor Dan Markel. It was the break prosecutors say they needed in the high-profile murder case that seemed stalled weeks before trial.”

ABC News reports that “Accused Hitman in FSU Murder Case Now Cooperating With Authorities.”

The Canadian Press reports that “Man pleads guilty in Florida shooting death of Canadian law professor.”

And at “Above the Law,” David Lat has a post titled “The Dan Markel Case: Luis Rivera Pleads Guilty.”

Posted at 8:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Unexpected Importance of Clarence Thomas: Long overshadowed by Scalia, the quiet radical is poised to shape his legacy.” Law professor Richard Primus has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

Posted at 6:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“En banc 5th Circuit asks: Why do people buy into pyramid schemes?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.

Posted at 4:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Republican Obstruction Is Undermining The Supreme Court, Enough Is Enough”: President Barack Obama has this essay today at The Huffington Post.

Posted at 1:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“The state’s highest court just made a major ruling on parental rights”: John R. Ellement of The Boston Globe has an article that begins, “A woman can seek parental rights to the child her former same-sex partner conceived through artificial insemination, even though the two women had never married, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday in a groundbreaking decision.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Court grants full parental rights to unmarried gay woman.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at this link.

Posted at 11:32 AM by Howard Bashman



“Constitution Check: Why does the Supreme Court refuse to hear some big cases?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

Posted at 10:45 AM by Howard Bashman



“Still Down A Justice, Supreme Court Term Is Off To A Restrained Start”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

Posted at 10:42 AM by Howard Bashman



“Judges Push Brevity in Briefs, and Get a Torrent of Arguments”: Elizabeth Olson has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

As of the time of this posting, the newspaper has corrected one error in the article, noting that Anthony M. Kennedy is technically not the Chief Justice. However, the article still contains an even greater oversight, stating that the new FRAP briefing word limits will only shorten the permissible maximum length of principal appellate briefs by 500 words, when in fact the reduction will be 1,000 words.

Update: As of 1:45 p.m. eastern time, the article has been corrected to note that the impending FRAP principal appellate brief word limit reduction will be 1,000 words, not 500 words.

Posted at 10:30 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Will Hear Its First Insider-Trading Case in 20 Years”: Greg Stohr and Patricia Hurtado of Bloomberg News have this report.

Posted at 8:07 AM by Howard Bashman