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Monday, October 26, 2015

“How Satan Came to Salem: The real story of the witch trials.” Adam Goodheart has this article in the November 2015 issue of The Atlantic.

Posted at 10:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Lourie withholds criticism of Supreme Court, explains no judge likes to be reversed”: Gene Quinn recently had this post at IPWatchdog.com.

Posted at 9:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Notorious RBG: The Supreme Court Justice Turned Cultural Icon.” Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Posted at 9:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“FAN 81.1 (First Amendment News) Floyd Abrams, ‘Beyond the Reach of Government'”: Ronald K.L. Collins has this post today at “Concurring Opinions.”

Posted at 9:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“States Lawyer Up, Looking To Find A Way To Buy Execution Drugs From Overseas; Texas, Ohio, and Arizona corrections officials all have hired private lawyers to try to find a way around the FDA, current law, and a federal court order in order to import execution drugs from overseas”: Chris Geidner and Chris McDaniel of BuzzFeed News have this report.

Robert Gehrke of The Salt Lake Tribune reports that “Utah latest red state grappling with death penalty.”

And Mark Berman of The Washington Post reports that “Florida inmate asks to be executed by electric chair rather than lethal injection.”

Posted at 9:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Will class action ascertainability come to SCOTUS through Tyson back door?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

Posted at 9:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Spark Delayed Ignites Into Late-Life Love”: Online at The Hartford Courant, Ann Z. Leventhal has an essay that begins, “In 1958, when I was 22 and Jon O. Newman was 26, he debated William F. Buckley Jr. at Hartford’s West Middle School.”

Posted at 9:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appoint special prosecutor in court email scandal”: Former Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille has this post today at the “Think Tank” blog of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Posted at 9:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“Saving our ignocratic republic: Can a book, even one endorsed by Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito, teach voters that Judge Judy doesn’t sit on the Supreme Court? Or is it already too late?” Law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds has this essay online at USA Today.

Posted at 8:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“It’s Illinois v. Illinois in a Duel for Justices’ Attention”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 4:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Dearborn man, separated from family, sues to get off No-Fly List”: The Press & Guide of Dearborn, Michigan had this report back in May 2013.

Also in May 2013, The Detroit Free Press reported that “Dearborn man under investigation for kidnappings sues over no-fly status.”

More recently, in October 2014, Courthouse News Service reported that “No-Fly List Challenge Takes Off in 6th Circuit.”

Today, a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued this ruling reinstating in part the plaintiff’s suit.

Posted at 1:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy visits HLS”: Harvard Law School has posted this video online today at YouTube.

Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Dayton child porn case heads to Ohio Supreme Court”: The Dayton Daily News has an article that begins, “Attorneys for a convicted child pornographer from Dayton will argue before the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state’s legal definition of nudity is unconstitutional because it doesn’t allow for the production or creation of morally innocent images of naked children.”

Posted at 1:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.'” In today’s edition of The New York Times, Jennifer Senior has a book review that begins, “Aesthetically speaking, ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ is a cheery curio, as if a scrapbook and the Talmud decided to have a baby.”

Posted at 9:48 AM by Howard Bashman