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Sunday, November 16, 2014

“Gov. Jerry Brown lets state Supreme Court vacancy linger”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has a news update that begins, “The California Supreme Court, which is supposed to have seven justices, has had only six for more than seven months, an interval that may be unprecedented and is at least the longest in a half century. The reason is inaction by Gov. Jerry Brown.”

Posted at 11:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Priests for Life group to defy court’s birth control ruling; Objects to Obamacare access mandate”: Tom Howell Jr. of The Washington Times has a report that begins, “A Catholic priest’s group says it will defy an appeals court’s order that it comply with Obamacare’s mandate to provide birth control coverage for its employees, rejecting the judges’ Friday ruling.”

Posted at 11:18 PM by Howard Bashman



Thank you #AJEI14 for a wonderful conference: It was a pleasure visiting Dallas and spending time with so many experienced appellate attorneys and appellate judges who are fans of this blog!

Additional posts will appear here either tonight or tomorrow morning. Between now and then, I am traveling back to Philadelphia.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“The ‘religious inclinations’ concurrence: an explanation from Judge Bauer himself.” Will Baude has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 1:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Examining Crawford after a decade”: Douglas A. Berman had this post yesterday at his “Sentencing Law and Policy: blog.

Posted at 1:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“In Alabama, Still Segregating Voters by Race”: Kenneth Jost has this post today at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

Posted at 1:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains a front page article whose second paragraph reports that “At the Supreme Court, small teams of undercover officers dress as students at large demonstrations outside the courthouse and join the protests to look for suspicious activity, according to officials familiar with the practice.”

Posted at 1:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“His mouth where his money is: Larry Lessig’s righteous crusade.” James Warren has this essay in today’s edition of The New York Daily News.

Posted at 1:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court sessions to be broadcast live; Justice Minister Livni, Chief Justice Grunis approve implementation of broadcasting, recording Supreme Court sessions starting Tuesday”: ynet news.com has this report from Israel.

Posted at 1:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“State wasting no time in starting new appellate court”: This article appears in today’s edition of The Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Posted at 8:25 AM by Howard Bashman