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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

“Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks challenges, career goals with Arcadia students”: The Times Herald of Norristown, Pennsylvania has this report.

Posted at 10:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Thigh Court: How a theater company turned a SCOTUS case about nude dancing into a rollicking new play.” Emily Bazelon has this essay online at Slate.

Posted at 9:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court seeks answers from ‘wild hypotheticals’; Sometimes the most imaginative questions help the justices separate facts from fiction”: Richard Wolf will have this article in Thursday’s edition of USA Today.

Posted at 9:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Abortion providers ask judge to halt Texas law”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal court challenge to new limits on abortions in Texas may hinge on complicated legal questions created by a myriad of U.S. Supreme Court rulings over the past decade on when a state may ignore medical considerations and limit the procedure, attorneys in the case argued Wednesday.”

And Bloomberg News reports that “Texas Abortion Trial Ends With Judge to Rule by Oct. 29.”

Posted at 9:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Parties Agree to Trim Briefing in Greenhouse Gas Cases”: Tony Mauro has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Posted at 5:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Today our court gives our approval to the government tempting persons in the population at large currently engaged in innocent activity and leading them into the commission of a serious crime, which the government will then prosecute.” So writes Senior Circuit Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., dissenting from the ruling that the majority on a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

Posted at 3:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“US 3rd affirms Del. Chancery Court ‘secret’ arbitration is unconstitutional”: The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware has this early report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today. All three judges on the panel wrote opinions setting forth their views.

Update: In other coverage, Tom Hals of Reuters has a report headlined “Delaware’s ‘secret trials’ violate First Amendment: court.”

Bloomberg News reports that “Delaware Judges Can’t Do Secret Arbitrations, Court Rules.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court rejects secret Delaware arbitration.”

Posted at 10:26 AM by Howard Bashman



“Too Much Frivolity, Not Enough Femininity: A Study of Gender and Humor at the U.S. Supreme Court.” Ryan A. Malphurs, Jaime Bochantin, L. Hailey Drescher, and Melissa Wallace Framer posted this study online at SSRN earlier this month (via “Gender and the Law Prof Blog“).

Posted at 9:23 AM by Howard Bashman