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Thursday, November 19, 2015

“Supreme Court Justice Eakin calls for porn inquiry to move to disciplinary court”: Wallace McKelvey of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

And Angela Couloumbis of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update headlined “Justice Eakin: Email inquiry should be heard in public.”

Also today, in coverage of a related development, Angela Couloumbis of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update headlined “Judges: Porngate emails not public record.”

Karen Langley of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a news update headlined “Pa. court says porn emails aren’t public records under state law.”

Steve Esack of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has a news update headlined “Court: Kathleen Kane can release porn emails even if they are not ‘public’ records.”

And Wallace McKelvey of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has a report headlined “AG Kathleen Kane not required to release porn emails, appeals court rules.”

You can access today’s 5-to-2 ruling of an en banc panel of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania at this link.

Posted at 5:07 PM by Howard Bashman



“Greenhouse Talks ‘He Said, She Said’ Journalism”: In today’s edition of The Harvard Crimson, Mia C. Carr has an article that begins, “Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Crimson editor Linda J. Greenhouse ’68 gave the second of three lectures in her series ‘Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between’ on Wednesday.”

You can learn more about the lecture series at this link.

In what may seem like an ironic twist to followers of the U.S. Supreme Court, the full title of the lecture series featuring Greenhouse is the “William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University.”

William E. Massey, Sr., before retiring, served as CEO of the A.T. Massey Coal Company, which years later was the very same company involved in the U.S. Supreme Court’s judicial election fundraising recusal case involving a justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia captioned Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.

In addition, Don Blankenship served as CEO of A.T. Massey Coal Co., later renamed Massey Energy, from 2000 until 2010. Earlier today, the federal district judge presiding over Blankenship’s criminal trial ordered the jury to continue deliberations.

Posted at 4:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“NFL-players concussion settlement challenged in federal appeals court”: Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this news update.

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Lawyers: NFL concussion deal excludes central brain injury.”

When the audio of this morning’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit becomes available online, I will link to it.

Update: In other coverage, Reuters reports that “Some ex-NFL players seek to re-work $1 bln concussion settlement.”

Posted at 3:52 PM by Howard Bashman