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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

“Alaska Supreme Court Justice Fabe to retire next year”: Alaska Dispatch News has an article that begins, “Alaska Supreme Court Justice Dana Fabe announced Tuesday that she would retire in June, after more than 20 years with the state’s highest court.”

Posted at 11:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“Data Transfer Pact Between U.S. and Europe Is Ruled Invalid”: Wednesday’s edition of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, “Europe’s highest court on Tuesday struck down an international agreement that allowed companies to move digital information like people’s web search histories and social media updates between the European Union and the United States.”

Bloomberg News reports that “EU Privacy Ruling May Disrupt U.S. Tech Firms, Spy Programs.”

Reuters has reports headlined “Europe-U.S. data transfer deal used by many firms ruled invalid” and “Schrems: the law student who brought down a transatlantic data pact.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Top EU court rules data sharing pact with US invalid.”

You can access today’s ruling of the European Court of Justice at this link. And the court also issued this related news release.

Posted at 10:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“A discussion about the Supreme Court’s new term with Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and The New Yorker and Adam Liptak of The New York Times”: You can view the video of this recent segment from The Charlie Rose Show at this link.

Posted at 8:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Constitution Check: Did the Pope intervene in America’s marriage controversy?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

Posted at 1:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Lawyer Accused in Scandal Over MasterCard Deal Speaks Out; Keila Ravelo suggests she has some bombs to drop on big law firms if she is prosecuted”: Paul Barrett of Bloomberg News has this report.

Posted at 1:38 PM by Howard Bashman



NLRB v. Noel Canning Tests the Limits of Judicial Memory: Leon Higginbotham, Spottswood Robinson, and David Rabinovitz ‘Rendered Illegitimate.'” Victor Williams has this article online at the Houston Law Review’s Off the Record.

Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Authority for Maryland v. Kulbicki”: Colin Starger has this post today at the “In Progress” blog.

At the “Forensics Forum” blog, Brandon Garrett has three posts about yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court per curiam rulinghere, here, and here.

At the “Maryland Appellate Blog,” Steve Klepper has a post titled “Supreme Court Summarily Reverses Maryland Court of Appeals in Kulbicki.”

And in news coverage, today’s edition of The Baltimore Sun contains a front page article headlined “Supreme Court reinstates 1995 murder conviction of Baltimore cop.”

Posted at 10:38 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older”: Oliver Roeder had this post yesterday at FiveThirtyEight.

Posted at 10:23 AM by Howard Bashman



“Rekindled Email Scandal Tests State Supreme Court, Again”: Lizzy McLellan and Max Mitchell have this article, in which I am quoted, in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Posted at 8:16 AM by Howard Bashman