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Monday, November 23, 2015

“Roberts on Supreme Court’s Changing Face (Beards Optional)”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“At End of Sheldon Silver’s Corruption Trial, the ‘Law Guys’ Take Over”: Benjamin Weiser has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Wisconsin abortion admitting privileges law unconstitutional, court affirms”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this news update.

The Wisconsin State Journal has a news update headlined “Appeals court backs rejection of abortion doctor admitting law.”

The Associated Press reports that “Federal court rules Wisconsin abortion law unconstitutional.”

And Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court rules against Wisconsin abortion doctor law.”

Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote the majority opinion that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today.

Posted at 6:08 PM by Howard Bashman



In the December 2015 issue of ABA Journal magazine: Mark Walsh has an article headlined “Redistricting case brings partisan politics, immigration and federalism before SCOTUS.”

Stephanie Francis Ward has an article headlined “Supreme Court ruling could spark more unintentional-discrimination cases.”

The issue contains the “The 9th Annual Blawg 100” and the “2015 Blawg 100 Hall of Fame.” In addition, Molly McDonough has an article addressing “What is the state of the legal blogosphere?” while Stephanie Francis Ward reports that “‘Umpire’ blog is shuttered, but its judge-author is staying in the game.”

And this month’s installmenf of Bryan A. Garner’s “On Words” column is titled “30 more words to test your pronunciation skills.”

Posted at 5:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judicial Gobbledygook: The Readability of Supreme Court Writing.” Ryan Whalen has this essay at The Yale Law Journal Forum.

Posted at 5:36 PM by Howard Bashman



Last week’s Third Circuit oral argument audio: On Thursday of last week, two cases in which I was involved were argued before the same three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Because the audio from these oral arguments is now available online, I am providing links to those arguments.

In the case captioned In re: National Football League Players Concussion Injury Litigation — a case in which I argued for approximately two minutes on behalf of two objectors but did not participate in the briefing of — you can access the oral argument audio via this link (52.5 MB mp3 audio file).

And in the case captioned In re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation — a case in which I participated in the briefing but which my client’s lead trial counsel did an excellent job of arguing on appeal — you can access the oral argument audio via this link (11.8 MB mp3 audio file).

The second of these two oral arguments was the panel’s final oral argument of the day. The presiding judge — Circuit Judge Thomas L. Ambro — can be heard profusely apologizing for having to actually enforce the red light indicator because one of his colleagues on the panel had an important conference call scheduled to begin promptly at 12:30 p.m., thereby establishing Judge Ambro as a true successor to the late Third Circuit Judge Edward R. Becker (access one of among many quite moving tributes here) when it comes to ordinarily ignoring oral argument time limits.

Posted at 12:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Roberts recalls another chief justice and reveals a little about himself”: Robert Barnes has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

Posted at 8:14 AM by Howard Bashman