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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

“Key question of Slants case at SCOTUS: Is trademark registration speech? If so, whose?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.

Posted at 9:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“South Carolina will debate bill to block porn on new computers; Citizens who wanted to opt out of porn filter would have to pay $20 fee”: Joe Mullin of Ars Technica has this report.

Posted at 3:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“Cruz: Give Clarence Thomas a place in the African-American museum.” Eugene Scott of CNN.com has an article that begins, “Sen. Ted Cruz says the new African-American museum honoring black history has made ‘a mistake’ by not featuring Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.”

Posted at 3:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“New York Appeals Court Rules No Public Performance Rights in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings; In a big victory for SiriusXM and a major setback for owners of older sound recordings, a lower court’s decision is reversed”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter about a ruling that the Court of Appeals of New York — that state’s highest court — issued today on certified question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

And in other coverage, Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “Sirius XM wins New York appeal over older songs.”

Posted at 2:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“Dozens Of Obama’s Judicial Nominees, Including Historic Picks, Won’t Make It Onto The Bench; Fifty-two of President Obama’s judicial nominees didn’t get a vote in the Senate; They include lawyers and judges who would have added new diversity to the federal bench”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 2:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“After Botched Execution, Arizona Agrees To Never Use A Controversial Sedative Again; The state has agreed to stop using midazolam, a drug similar to valium that was linked to several botched executions in recent years; Without the drug, the state has few options on how to go forward with lethal injections”: Chris McDaniel of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 2:41 PM by Howard Bashman