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Friday, October 26, 2012

“The $63 billion copyright question”: At Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight, Erin Geiger Smith has a report that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in one of the most important copyright cases in a decade, over whether works manufactured outside the United States can be resold here without the permission of the copyright owner.”

Posted at 6:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“Will Bush v. Gore Save Barack Obama? If Obama narrowly wins Ohio, he can thank Justice Scalia and the court’s conservatives.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen — author of the “Election Law Blog” — has this essay online at Slate.

Posted at 6:07 PM by Howard Bashman



“Support for end to California death penalty surges; Nearly half of registered voters still back capital punishment, but the margin has shrunk to 3 percentage points; Voters also favor easing the three-strikes law”: Maura Dolan and Jack Leonard have this front page article today in The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 2:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals court in Chicago reinstates white supremacist’s conviction for threatening juror”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “An appellate court ruled Friday that a white supremacist solicited violence against a juror in another trial by revealing his personal details online, rejecting a lower court’s finding that the neo-Nazi’s posts were protected by the First Amendment.”

You can access today’s per curiam ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman