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Sunday, December 18, 2016

“Court refuses to lift order for state to deliver water in Flint”: Paul Egan of The Detroit Free Press has this report.

Jennifer Chambers of The Detroit News reports that “Appeals court sides with water delivery for Flint.”

And Jiquanda Johnson of MLive.com reports that “State still must deliver water to Flint residents, federal court rules.”

You can access Friday’s order of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 7:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Court is asked to expand protections for gays, lesbians”: Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article that begins, “The federal appeals court in Atlanta was asked Thursday to do something it’s never done before — rule that gays and lesbians cannot be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.”

According to the article, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit assigned to hear and decide the case consists of Circuit Judges William H. Pryor Jr. and Robin S. Rosenbaum and U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez (S.D. Fla.).

Posted at 11:35 AM by Howard Bashman