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Thursday, November 7, 2013

“Police need judge’s specific permission to search computers, Supreme Court rules”: Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail has a news update that begins, “Police entering a home with a search warrant have no right to examine any computers they find unless a judge has given them specific permission, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled unanimously.”

And The Canadian Press reports that “Court allows computer, phone evidence in B.C. grow-op case; Police seized two computers and a cellphone in the raid on Thanh Long Vu’s home.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link.

Posted at 10:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Alleged subway ‘Peeping Mike’ appeals before Massachusetts SJC; Lawyer argues 1st Amendment protects Andover man while taking pictures up women’s skirts”: The Eagle-Tribune of North Andover has this article reporting on a case argued Monday before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. You can access the video of the oral argument via this link.

Other coverage of the oral argument is available from The New York Daily News and the “Jezebel” blog.

Posted at 10:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Rehearing Denial Spurs Harrowing Warning”: Courthouse News Service has a report that begins, “A rift in the 9th Circuit over ‘causal nexus’ review may not be fixed in time to save the life of a man on death row in Arizona, but it must be fixed, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and a dozen other judges warned Thursday.”

You can access at this link the dissent in which twelve judges serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit joined today.

Posted at 4:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Michigan Supreme Court to decide whether juveniles serving mandatory life sentences deserve shot at freedom”: The Associated Press has this report.

Posted at 4:13 PM by Howard Bashman



“Antonin Scalia Just Cracked the Door to State-Sanctioned Prayer; Religious supremacy may be on the rise at the Supreme Court”: Law professor Jeffrey Rosen has this essay online today at The New Republic.

And on Tuesday, The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle posted online an article headlined “The women behind local Supreme Court case: The case brought by two women pits a 239-year-old government practice against the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.”

Posted at 4:12 PM by Howard Bashman



In news pertaining to the Supreme Court of Florida: The Associated Press reports that “Fla. Supreme Court settles lesbian custody battle.” You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of Florida’s highest court at this link. Update: In other coverage, Bloomberg News reports that “Florida Court Rules Lesbian Egg Donor Has Parental Rights.”

And in other news, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports today that “Red-lights camera challenge goes to Supreme Court; Cases concern tickets issued in Orlando and Aventura.”

Posted at 2:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. justices weigh LCD-screen price-fixing case”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has a report that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday as it considered a dispute between states and electronics manufacturers over whether restitution claims based on alleged price-fixing in the market for liquid crystal display panels should be heard in state or federal court.”

You can access at this link the transcript of yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Mississippi, Inc. ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics Corp., No. 12-1036.

Posted at 11:04 AM by Howard Bashman



“How I Write: Richard Posner; America’s most cited legal scholar, Judge Richard Posner, talks about his compulsive writing, what’s guaranteed to make him laugh, and his passion for cats.” Online today at The Daily Beast, Noah Charney has this interview with Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner.

Nearly ten years ago, Judge Posner was a participant in this blog’s “20 questions for the appellate judge” feature. You can access that interview at this link.

Posted at 10:58 AM by Howard Bashman



“At Supreme Court hearing, passions over religion and its rules”: Joan Biskupic of Reuters has a news analysis that begins, “When the U.S. Supreme Court talks about religion, all hell breaks loose.”

Posted at 10:36 AM by Howard Bashman