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Monday, December 30, 2013

“Jurist Prudence? Candid Judges Speak Out; Critics Question Wisdom of Justices Who Take Their Opinions Beyond the Courtroom; Dishing on a Blog and in a Book.” Joe Palazzolo will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 9:23 PM by Howard Bashman



“[T]he most surprising feature of the entire episode is the exceptional lenity with which a state university (in a state that does not allow medicinal, let alone recreational, use of marijuana) treated a brazen violator of its rules of conduct and of the criminal law.” So writes Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in an opinion issued today.

Posted at 9:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Obama Trails Bush in Shaping Federal Judiciary”: Todd Ruger has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Posted at 5:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gov. Herbert has not signed off on $2 million price tag to defend Amendment 3”: This article appears today in The Deseret News.

And today’s edition of The Salt Lake Tribune contains a front page article headlined “Parents of newlywed same-sex couples share joy, pride; Many parents doubted they would ever see their LGBT children get married in their home state.” The Tribune also has a news update headlined “Another Utah amendment on marriage coming; Proposes to ensure churches need not participate in marriages that violate their views.”

Posted at 3:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“The NSA’s Metadata Program Is Perfectly Constitutional; Judge William Pauley, not Judge Richard Leon, got it right”: Law professor Eric Posner has this essay online today at Slate.

Posted at 3:21 PM by Howard Bashman



“What You Need to Know about the Third-Party Doctrine; And what it will likely mean as the NSA lawsuits work their way through the courts”: John Villasenor has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

Posted at 3:20 PM by Howard Bashman



In the January 2014 issue of ABA Journal magazine: Mark Walsh has an article headlined “SCOTUS ponders whether the president can make appointments while Congress is out.”

Steven Seidenberg has an article headlined “With the Supreme Court’s OK, states begin imposing new laws to limit the vote.”

David L. Hudson Jr. has an article headlined “1st Amendment at issue in ban on gay-conversion therapy for minors.”

Susan A. Berson’s cover story, headlined “Road to retirement: Ways to make retirement anything but resignation,” begins, “Deanell Reece Tacha has the characteristic enthusiasm of a 3L.”

Richard Acello has an article headlined “How two California solos helped take down ‘porn troll’ Prenda Law.”

And the new installment of Bryan A. Garner’s “On Words” column is headlined “4 vignettes lead to a single moral about writing better briefs.”

Posted at 3:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trial Lawyers Put Whirlpool Through the Wringer: The Supreme Court has a chance to bring more clarity to class actions.” John Engler has this op-ed today in The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 10:38 AM by Howard Bashman