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Monday, November 9, 2015

“Briefly Noted: Notorious RBG, by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik (Dey Street).” From the November 16, 2015 issue of The New Yorker, which you can access at this link.

Posted at 2:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Tennessee appellate courts lack diversity, raising concerns; More than three-quarters of Tennessee’s appeals court judges are white men”: Stacey Barchenger has this front page article in today’s edition of The Tennessean.

And in related coverage, Owen Bowcott of The Guardian (UK) has an article headlined “Lady Hale: supreme court should be ashamed if diversity does not improve; UK’s only female supreme court judge criticises all-male, all-white appointments and says a search committee should be set up to find candidates.”

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Locking in Votes and Doling Out ‘Dogs’: How Roberts Assigns Opinions.” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

And online at The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article headlined “Chief justice favors some when assigning court’s major decisions.”

Both articles discuss law professor Richard J. Lazarus‘s Harvard Law Review Forum commentary posted online today titled “Back to ‘Business’ at the Supreme Court: The ‘Administrative Side’ of Chief Justice Roberts.”

Posted at 1:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Birth Control Is Back Before The Supreme Court. Liberals Could Win This Time.” Ian Millhiser has this post today at ThinkProgress.

Posted at 11:30 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Right Leader for New York’s Courts”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “The job of running New York State’s highest court is open once again, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has an important decision to make in filling it.”

According to the editorial, a certain former D.C. Circuit nominee now at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is under consideration for the post (not him, but her).

Posted at 11:28 AM by Howard Bashman



Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

In Mullenix v. Luna, No. 14-1143, the Court issued a per curiam summary reversal. Justice Antonin Scalia issued an opinion concurring in the judgment. And Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a dissenting opinion.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “High court sides with state trooper over fatal shooting“; “High court won’t hear challenge over nonprofit donor lists“; and “High court rejects Cleveland’s appeal over ‘jock tax.’

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court rejects cellphone search warrant case” and “U.S. top court allows Apotex to pursue generic version of Daiichi drug.”

Posted at 9:39 AM by Howard Bashman