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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

“McCaffery ordered to turn in court-issued equipment”: In Wednesday’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Angela Couloumbis and Jeremy Roebuck will have an article that begins, “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday told Justice Seamus P. McCaffery to turn over computers and other court-issued equipment, and moved swiftly to cancel the Internet service it provides at McCaffery’s Northeast Philadelphia home.”

And in Wednesday’s edition of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Brad Bumsted will have an article headlined “Justice blames feud for his ouster; chief of court admits he did seek to remove him.”

Posted at 11:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Foreign Chefs Get Treat in Court’s Visa Ruling; Appeals Judges Find Brazilian Steakhouse’s Cooks Have Specialized Knowledge”: Joe Palazzolo will have this article in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

And at the “Federal Eye” blog of The Washington Post, Jerry Markon and Tim Carman have an entry titled “Fogo de Chao wins meaty case in visa fight with Homeland Security.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

Posted at 10:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals Court Rejects Police Handcuffing of Elementary Student”: Mark Walsh has this post at the “School Law” blog of Education Week.

Posted at 10:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Corbett in Phila. signs ‘Mumia bill'”: Joe Dolinsky of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update that begins, “Just a few feet from the site where Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner was gunned down by Mumia Abu-Jamal in 1981, Gov. Corbett on Tuesday signed into law a bill that would censor former offenders from causing victims mental anguish.”

Posted at 8:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Pa. Justice McCaffery agrees to drop suit against Inquirer”: The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update that begins, “State Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery agreed Tuesday to withdraw his defamation suit against The Inquirer for articles detailing how his wife collected lucrative referral fees from personal-injury law firms while serving as his judicial aide.”

Posted at 8:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Law signed to curb Abu-Jamal’s ‘obscene celebrity'”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Ignoring the chants of protesters on the block where a police officer was killed and the cause celebre of Mumia Abu-Jamal was born, Gov. Tom Corbett signed into law Tuesday a measure he said would curb the ‘obscene celebrity’ cultivated by convicts at the expense of victims.”

Posted at 5:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Porn and consequences: McCaffery is suspended from Pa. high court.” Chris Brennan has this article in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.

Posted at 3:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visits San Jose State”: Howard Mintz has this article in today’s edition of The San Jose Mercury News.

Posted at 12:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“When Ron Castille Called Seamus McCaffery a ‘Sociopath’: The chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court weighs in on his colleague.” Joel Mathis has this blog post today at Philadelphia Magazine.

John L. Micek of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has an essay titled “Castille’s scathing opinion lays bare dysfunction on Pa.’s highest court.”

And today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an editorial titled “Rough justice.”

Posted at 12:10 PM by Howard Bashman