“Court review ties McCaffery to 230 porn e-mails”: Angela Couloumbis and Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer have a news update that begins, “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery sent or received more than 230 e-mails containing sexually explicit content between late 2008 and mid-2012 — including some messages sent to the state e-mail accounts of government employees, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the court’s chief justice.”
Karen Langley of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a news update headlined “Justice Castille: McCaffery had 234 pornographic emails; Third Pennsylvania official, Randy Feathers, steps down over email scandal.”
Brad Bumsted of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a news update headlined “Castille: No justices except McCaffery involved in porn scandal.”
And The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has a news update headlined “Review shows one Supreme Court justice sent or received sexually explicit emails: Chief justice.”
“Another Ariz. immigration law shot down by 9th Circuit; The law deemed class 4 felonies as serious crimes”: Michael Kiefer of The Arizona Republic has a news update that begins, “Another of Arizona’s immigration laws was struck down today when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unconstitutional a law denying bond to undocumented immigrants charged with ‘serious’ crimes.”
Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star has a news update headlined “Ruling voids Arizona ban on bail for some immigrants.”
And The Associated Press reports that “Court tosses Arizona’s no-bail law for immigrants.”
You can access today’s en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.
“Opponents ask U.S. Supreme Court to block Texas voter ID law”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.
“Supreme Court weighs generic drug dispute”: Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has this report.
Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Teva Gets Mixed Reception at U.S. High Court on Copaxone.”
Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court justices divided over Teva patent battle.”
And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument analysis: If gut feelings could control….”
You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc., No. 13-854.
In earlier commentary, online today at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman had an essay titled “Ready for a Patented Supreme Court Smackdown?”
“Judges dismiss complaint on alleged bias remarks”: Pete Yost of The Associated Press has this report.
And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Zoe Tillman has a post titled “Two Months Later, Dismissal of Fifth Circuit Judicial Misconduct Case Revealed.” You can freely access the full text of the post via Google.
“Federal panel dismisses complaint against Houston judge”: Lise Olsen of The Houston Chronicle has a news update that begins, “After a year-long secret investigation, a panel of federal judges in Washington, D.C., has dismissed a high-profile misconduct complaint against Houston-based Judge Edith Jones of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.”
You can access the dismissal order of the D.C. Circuit‘s Judicial Council and the earlier report of that Council’s special committee via this link.
Late yesterday, the parties that brought the misconduct complaint filed an appeal from the dismissal with the Judicial Conference of the United States. Included as an attachment to the appeal were various affidavits previously filed in support of the misconduct complaint.
This blog’s earlier posts relating to this matter can be accessed here, here, and here.
“Nine things to know about the Supreme Court’s assisted suicide case”: Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail has this report.
“Regulatory Case in North Carolina Appears to Trouble Supreme Court”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article headlined “Supreme Court scrutinizes regulators with a financial interest in what they regulate.”
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court considers if state board serves public or limits competition.”
Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Scrutinizes Power of Licensing Boards in Teeth Whitening Case; Justices Admit to Difficult Choice in North Carolina Dental Board Suit.”
Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “For Supreme Court, dental case is like pulling teeth.”
Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau reports that “Supreme Court takes a bite of N.C. teeth-whitening case.”
Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Can dentists bar competition over teeth-whitening?”
Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court justices chew on teeth-whitening dispute.”
And on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Teeth Whitening Case.”
You can access at this link the transcript of yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in North Carolina State Bd. of Dental Examiners v. FTC, No. 13-534.
“US panel to hear appeal on NY stop and frisk case”: The Associated Press has this report.
“U.S. Supreme Court justices press Nebraska, Kansas on water claims”: This article appears in today’s edition of The Omaha World-Herald.
And Jeremy P. Jacobs of Greenwire reports that “Justices vexed by Kan.-Neb. water dispute case.”
You can access at this link the transcript of yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Kansas v. Nebraska, No. 126-Orig.
“U.S. top court hears Teva’s multiple sclerosis drug patent fight”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.
