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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

“Supreme Court considers whether ‘right to sue’ means only right to arbitration”: Robert Barnes will have this article Wednesday in The Washington Post.

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood, No. 10-948.

Posted at 10:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Examining the Workload of Pennsylvania’s Highest Court”: Today’s installment of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers, contains this month’s installment of my monthly “Upon Further Review” column.

This month’s column begins, “Recently, a journalist working at one of Pennsylvania’s major newspapers called me in the hope that I would be willing to speak on the record about the declining number of opinions that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued in 2010.”

Posted at 5:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“Prosecutors mull possible retrial in 1991 murders”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Prosecutors in Arizona were expected to announce Tuesday whether a man convicted of killing nine people at a Buddhist temple will be retried after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn a decision that threw out his confession.”

Posted at 5:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Mortgage Closing Overcharge Case Gets U.S. High Court Review”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Supreme Court rejects appeal in gay couple’s adoption case; The Supreme Court action Tuesday means Louisiana does not have to amend the birth certificate of a local boy adopted by an unmarried gay couple living in New York, to record them as his parents.”

James Vicini of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court won’t hear same-sex adoptive parents case” and “U.S. court clears Abu-Jamal case re-sentencing.”

And at the “School Law” blog of Education Week, Mark Walsh has a post titled “High Court Declines Cases on Student Expression.”

Posted at 4:58 PM by Howard Bashman



Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court has posted today’s Order List at this link. The Court today granted review in two new cases.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “High court to decide double jeopardy question“; “Court won’t hear gay dads’ birth certificate case“; “Court rules in favor of one-time Black Panther“; “Court won’t hear appeal of Buddhist murders case“; “Court won’t hear NH presidential ballot question“; and “Court won’t hear appeal from Alamo followers.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Gay couple case rejected; 2 grants.”

Posted at 10:04 AM by Howard Bashman



Yesterday’s broadcast of WYPR’s “Midday with Dan Rodricks” featured an interview with Justice Stephen G. Breyer: You can access the audio via this link.

Posted at 8:50 AM by Howard Bashman



“Former Alaska Supreme Court justice dies”: Today’s edition of The Juneau Empire contains an article that begins, “Robert Boochever, who served as chief justice for the Alaska Supreme Court and as senior judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, died Sunday in his Pasadena, Calif., home. He was 92.”

Posted at 7:06 AM by Howard Bashman



“Komisarjevsky’s Attorneys Seek To Curb State’s Closing Argument; Urge Judge To Bar Any Statements That Contradict Arguments Made In Steven Hayes’ Trial”: This article appears today in The Hartford Courant.

Posted at 7:00 AM by Howard Bashman