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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

“Judge Harry Edwards Is Still Unimpressed With Legal Scholarship”: Michael Dorf had this post yesterday at “Dorf on Law.”

Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Review of Damon Root’s Overruled: The Long War for Control of the Supreme Court.” Ilya Somin has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 5:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Breyer, Symposium Explore Legacies of Magna Carta”: Jeanine Cali had this post yesterday at the “In Custodia Legis” blog of the Library of Congress.

Posted at 5:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Constitution Check: How much secrecy does the First Amendment give to political donors?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

Posted at 4:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Industry’s mercury challenge could undermine attack on EPA climate rule”: Jeremy P. Jacobs of Greenwire has a report that begins, “If coal companies get their way when the Supreme Court reviews U.S. EPA’s air standards for mercury and other hazardous emissions, they could undermine their primary legal challenge to another landmark pollution rule: President Obama’s greenhouse gas limits for power plants.”

Posted at 4:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ruling overturned on sex-change surgery for Mass. inmate”: John R. Ellement and Martin Finucane of The Boston Globe have a news update that begins, “A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling that a transgender Massachusetts prison inmate is entitled to taxpayer-funded sex change surgery.”

The Boston Herald has a news update headlined “Convicted killer Michelle Kosilek’s demand for sex-change operation rejected.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court overturns sex-change for inmate.”

You can access today’s 117-page, 3-to-2 en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, consisting of a majority opinion and two dissenting opinions, at this link.

Posted at 2:11 PM by Howard Bashman



“District court declares Obama immigration action unconstitutional”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” discussing a ruling that one of the most politically conservative judges serving on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued today.

Update: In early news coverage, Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Obama’s immigration actions ruled unconstitutional.”

Brian Bowling of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a news update headlined “Judge uses deportation case to say Obama’s executive order is unconstitutional.”

The Associated Press reports that “US judge says Obama immigration action invalid.”

And at WSJ.com’s “Washington Wire” blog, Jacob Gershman has a post titled “A Judge Calls Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration Unconstitutional.”

Posted at 2:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Conversation with Justice Elena Kagan: A conversation between Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan” recorded November 20, 2014. You can view the video via this link.

Posted at 8:30 AM by Howard Bashman



“If uncorrected by this Court en banc or the Supreme Court, this decision, and others like it, sends a clear message to litigants: if you don’t like the factual findings of a district court, the doors of our Court are wide open to endless retrials on appeal.” So writes Circuit Judge Edward C. Prado in a dissent issued yesterday from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit‘s denial of rehearing en banc. The revised three-judge panel’s opinion in this environmental case can be accessed here.

In earlier coverage of the three-judge panel’s original ruling in the appeal, The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported that “Court reverses ruling on whooping cranes’ deaths.”

Posted at 8:20 AM by Howard Bashman