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Monday, November 13, 2017

“Locals Were Troubled by Roy Moore’s Interactions with Teen Girls at the Gadsden Mall”: Charles Bethea has this post online at The New Yorker.

Posted at 7:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“State Appellate Court Oral Arguments Should Be Freely Available Online”: This month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column will appear in tomorrow’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

Posted at 5:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Yes, the G.O.P. Can Block Roy Moore”: Law professor Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr. has this op-ed in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick and law professor James Sample have a jurisprudence essay titled “We’ve Always Known Roy Moore Is Lawless: It’s why Alabama Republicans voted for him.”

And online at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “Roy Moore’s Defiant Brand Can’t Protect Him This Time; A sex scandal should offend his supporters’ personal values; His professional conduct never did.”

Posted at 5:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Be Careful What You Sue For: If the Supreme Court strikes down California’s ‘crisis pregnancy center’ disclosure act, dozens of anti-abortion laws could fall with it.” Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 5:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Fifth Woman Accuses Senate Candidate Roy Moore of Sexual Misconduct”: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Jonathan Martin of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 3:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Power of the Courts Is Messing Up Politics”: In the SundayReview section of yesterday’s edition of The New York Times, Greg Weiner had an interesting essay that begins, “As four newly Senate-approved federal appellate judges move into their chambers seven months after Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court, they may seem to have vindicated conservatives who swallowed their qualms about Donald Trump last year out of a conviction that, whatever his flaws, he would save the judiciary.”

Posted at 1:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump choosing white men as judges, highest rate in decades”: Catherine Lucey and Meghan Hoyer of The Associated Press have this report.

Posted at 1:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justices Take Cases on Free Speech at Pregnancy Centers and Polling Places”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court takes case on free speech rights of antiabortion counseling centers.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court agrees to hear antiabortion challenge to California disclosure law for pregnancy centers.”

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has articles headlined “Supreme Court to decide if religious nonprofit clinics must post abortion signs” and “Supreme Court to decide if states can ban political apparel at polling places.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today has a report headlined “Red or blue? Supreme Court to rule on voters’ apparel.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court to hear crisis pregnancy centers’ appeal.” And Curt Anderson of The Associated Press reports that “Florida man back at Supreme Court with 1st Amendment case.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court to hear dispute over California pregnancy center law.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Political T-Shirts at Polling Place Get U.S. Supreme Court Hearing.”

And Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com reports that “Supreme Court takes up First Amendment challenge to California abortion law” and “Supreme Court to consider political apparel at the polling place.”

Posted at 1:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Is a Recipe for Justice Kennedy a Recipe for Success?” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

Posted at 12:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Arguing a Difficult Case Effectively”: Attorney Judd Lindenfeld has this kind guest post today at the “Appellate Advocacy Blog.”

The post begins, “Three weeks ago, Howard Bashman created a bit of a stir among people who follow appellate law when he posted on his blog, How Appealing, that he would be arguing a sentencing appeal in the Second Circuit.”

Posted at 11:40 AM by Howard Bashman



“Hargan v. Garza As The Trump Administration’s Vision For DOJ”: Leah Litman has this post at the “Take Care” blog.

Posted at 9:42 AM by Howard Bashman



Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in three new cases.

In addition, in Reeves v. Alabama, No. 16-9282, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a dissent, in which Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan joined, from the denial of certiorari.

Posted at 9:33 AM by Howard Bashman