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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

“Police whistleblower lawsuit gets new hearing”: This post appears today at the “Crime Blotter” blog of The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California.

At her “Trial Insider” blog, Pamela A. MacLean has a post titled “Circuit Revives Officer Suit Over Burbank Police Abuse.”

And Courthouse News Service reports that “Full Circuit Reopens Case of Whistle-Blowing Cop.”

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link. The original three-judge panel’s ruling can be accessed here.

Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Delaware’s business court presses for secret arbitration”: Tom Hals has this report today at Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight.

Posted at 8:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“No Harm, No Standing: In the California gay-marriage case, no one has a legal interest in denying someone else’s happiness.” Walter Dellinger has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 5:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Should Scalia step aside in gay marriage cases?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

Posted at 4:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Animus of Antonin Scalia”: Amy Davidson has this blog post online today at The New Yorker.

Today’s edition of The Daily Princetonian contains an article headlined “Challenging Justice Antonin Scalia, Hosie ’16 brings international attention to Princeton” that begins, “In the span of less than a day, Duncan Hosie ’16 — a San Francisco native interested in constitutional law — has attained international recognition for questioning Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia about his comparison of laws banning homosexuality to laws banning bestiality and murder.”

In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage has an article headlined “Justice Antonin Scalia defends writings on anti-gay laws; Confronted by a gay student at Princeton University, the high court justice says his comparison of laws did not equate homosexuality with bestiality or murder.”

And Dana Milbank of The Washington Post has an op-ed headlined “Scalia blocks the aisle against gay marriage.”

Posted at 4:26 PM by Howard Bashman



This is why I never demand more than $100 million for my blogging: Reuters has an article headlined “Unpaid bloggers lose bid to revive Huffington Post case.” According to the article, “A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Wednesday rejected claims that the bloggers deserved $105 million of the deal’s purchase price.”

You can access today’s non-precedential Summary Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

Posted at 4:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Standing and Delivering”: At the “Opinionator” blog of The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse has a post that begins, “Is it heretical of me, or merely quirky, to find myself nearly as fascinated by the procedural game the Supreme Court is playing in the same-sex marriage cases as I am by the underlying merits of the two appeals the court has agreed to decide?”

Posted at 10:02 AM by Howard Bashman