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Monday, November 22, 2010

“Former justice Elizabeth Weaver censured for airing deliberations”: Dawson Bell of The Detroit Free Press has a news update that begins, “The Michigan Supreme Court has issued a pointed and public rebuke of a former justice, Elizabeth Weaver, for making secret recordings of internal court deliberations and releasing some of the transcripts.”

And The Detroit News has an update headlined “Michigan Supreme Court criticizes ex-Justice Elizabeth Weaver.”

You can view the censure letter, in which five justices have joined and one justice has expressly refused to join, by clicking here.

Posted at 8:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“DOJ Pick Would Have Taken a Recess Appointment”: At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” David Ingram has a post that begins, “Dawn Johnsen, a hero to some liberal lawyers and a failed nominee to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, says she would have been happy to serve in the job on a temporary basis.”

Posted at 5:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Petition for Certiorari Filed in Pineda-Moreno, The Ninth Circuit GPS Case”: Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 5:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Juvenile offenders still get near-life terms”: Yesterday’s edition of The Sarasota Herald-Tribune contained a front page article that begins, “More than six months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Florida’s practice of sending juveniles to prison for the rest of their lives for non-murder crimes was unconstitutional, not a single former juvenile sentenced in such cases has found much relief.”

Posted at 8:40 AM by Howard Bashman