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Thursday, December 11, 2014

“Appeals Court Will Hear About Hollywood Ageism and Dead Lawyers; A date is set for a showdown that attorneys for actress Huong Hoang say ‘presents a clash between the culture of Hollywood . . . and the culture of internet companies'”: Eriq Gardner has this post today at the “Hollywood, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

Posted at 9:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Police don’t need warrants to search cellphones in arrests, top court rules”: Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail has this news update.

The Toronto Star has a news update headlined “Supreme Court allows police to search cellphones without warrants; The ruling is narrowly split; The assenters laid out conditions for search, but lifted emergency circumstances as a precondition; The dissenters vocally opposed it as a violation of privacy.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Canada court: police can search a suspect’s phone.”

You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link.

Posted at 3:35 PM by Howard Bashman



“Elegy for a Hero of Religious Freedom: Al Smith’s stand against the power of the state eventually led to new laws protecting an ancient Indian faith.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 2:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court to hear appeal in Khadr case”: Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail has a news update that begins, “The Supreme Court will hear the federal government’s appeal of a ruling that would bring Omar Khadr, a convicted Canadian terrorist now held in an Alberta prison, a step closer to freedom.”

Posted at 12:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals Court Deals a Setback to U.S. Crackdown on Insider Trading”: Ben Protess and Matthew Goldstein have this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Christopher M. Matthews has an article headlined “Court Overturns Insider-Trading Convictions, a Blow to Justice Department; Judges Narrow Definition of Insider Trading, Say Prosecutors Took Too Broad a View in Wall Street Crackdown.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

The New York Daily News reports that “U.S. Court of Appeals overturns convictions of two hedge-funders accused of insider trading in Dell, Nvidia stock.”

The New York Post has an article headlined “It’s not insider trading if you have a middleman: court ruling.”

USA Today has articles headlined “Court overturns 2 insider trading convictions” and “Insider trading ruling restricts prosecutions.”

Bloomberg News reports that “Insider Trading Prosecutions Just Got Harder as Court Raises Bar.”

Nate Raymond and Emily Flitter of Reuters report that “Insider trading cases face uphill path after convictions tossed.”

The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court deals blow to US in insider cases.”

And Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has a report titled “Insider trading prosecutions were hollow at the core — 2nd Circuit.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

Posted at 9:45 AM by Howard Bashman



“President’s nominees face do-or-die moment as Congress sets to adjourn”: Alexander Bolton of The Hill has this report today.

Posted at 9:28 AM by Howard Bashman



“Court upholds punitive damages in Asarco harassment case”: Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star has this report on a unanimous en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.

My post reporting on the original three-judge Ninth Circuit panel’s ruling in the case had as its title the opening sentence from the panel majority’s opinion, “We must decide whether the Constitution permits a six-figure punitive damage award in a sexual harassment suit where the jury awarded no compensatory damages and only one dollar in nominal damages.”

Posted at 9:25 AM by Howard Bashman



“Heavy Lifting: The Supreme Court and Rights for Pregnant Workers.” Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 8:55 AM by Howard Bashman