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Sunday, October 30, 2016

“We Need Nine (Or Do We): A Slice of Supreme Court History.” Adam Feldman has this post today at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

Posted at 11:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Poll: Voters favor retaining at least some of the Kansas Supreme Court justices by wide margin.” Jonathan Shorman has this front page article in today’s edition of The Topeka Capital-Journal.

And in today’s edition of The Wichita Eagle, Amy Renee Leiker has articles headlined “Death penalty cases a factor behind efforts to oust justices“; “What courts did in the Carr brothers case; what’s next“; and “Four misconceptions about the Carr cases, explained.”

Posted at 10:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Greg Abbott presses Texas Supreme Court to limit gay-marriage ruling”: Chuck Lindell of the Austin American-Statesman has this report.

Andrea Zelinski of The Houston Chronicle reports that “State leaders ask Texas high court for clarification on same sex marriage law.”

And Alexa Ura of The Texas Tribune reports that “Texas Republicans want to narrow scope of same-sex marriage ruling; Texas Republicans are asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider a case about benefits in what appears to be an attempt to narrow the scope of the landmark ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.”

Posted at 10:40 PM by Howard Bashman



Self-described “Netflix of Porn” loses appeal from denial of preliminary injunction in reverse-confusion trademark dispute against Amazon.com: You can access Friday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link. Circuit Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum wrote the opinion.

Earlier, Nathan Hale of Law360.com reported on the oral argument of this appeal in an article headlined “11th Circ. Asks If Facts Back Porn Co. In Amazon TM Dispute” (subscription required for full access).

Posted at 8:00 PM by Howard Bashman