“You Call That a Knife?” At the “Sepia Mutiny” blog, Dave Sidhu has this post about the Supreme Court of Canada‘s recent decision regarding whether students can be prohibited from bringing Sikh kirpans to school.
Posted at 11:58 PM by Howard Bashman
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Sunday, March 5, 2006
“You Call That a Knife?” At the “Sepia Mutiny” blog, Dave Sidhu has this post about the Supreme Court of Canada‘s recent decision regarding whether students can be prohibited from bringing Sikh kirpans to school. Posted at 11:58 PM by Howard BashmanThe Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting: Monday’s newspaper will contain an article headlined “Moussaoui still a mystery to FBI tipsters; ‘Am I going to be responsible for a guy being put to death?’ one man wonders.” And last Friday’s newspaper contained an article headlined “In South Dakota, challenge to abortion ban could be sent to voters; Opponents of the bill awaiting the governor’s signature could try to put it on the ballot before it reaches the courts.” Posted at 11:44 PM by Howard Bashman“Voices Baffled, Brash and Irate in Guantanamo”: This article will appear Monday in The New York Times. Posted at 11:35 PM by Howard Bashman“Jurors set to decide Moussaoui’s fate; Trial expected to take months”: CNN.com provides this report. Posted at 11:30 PM by Howard Bashman“Parental Notice Has Scant Effect in Teen Abortion”: This article will appear in Monday’s edition of The New York Times. Posted at 10:58 PM by Howard Bashman“In Enron Chess Game, Lawyers Weigh Value of One Piece”: Monday’s edition of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, “Do federal prosecutors in the Enron trial need the headache of calling Andrew S. Fastow, the Enron figure some view as the government’s star witness?” Posted at 10:15 PM by Howard Bashman“Reporter: High court shifting.” The Davis Enterprise contains an article that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court is ‘very much a court in transition,’ top legal reporter Nina Totenberg said Friday night at UC Davis.” Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman“Patent showdown heads to Supreme Court”: PC World Australia provides this preview of MercExchange v. eBay. Posted at 9:55 PM by Howard Bashman“Bones halt plans for tolerance museum; A project promoting harmony is being built on Muslim graves”: Monday’s edition of The Times of London contains this article. Posted at 8:35 PM by Howard Bashman“Justices still running up the public tab; State reimbursed judges $53,473 for expenses in last 6 months”: This article appears today in The Harrisburg Patriot-News. Posted at 8:32 PM by Howard BashmanThe Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “FBI Testimony Likely Key in Moussaoui Case“; “Guantanamo Inmates Despair of Ever Leaving“; and “Enron’s Infamous Ex-CFO Fastow to Testify.” Posted at 8:25 PM by Howard BashmanIn Monday’s edition of The Christian Science Monitor: Tomorrow’s newspaper will contain articles headlined “‘Specific’ info on NSA eavesdropping? A new lawsuit may have what other cases don’t: official records about those under surveillance“; “Did ‘Da Vinci Code’ break British copyright code? A judge must decide if ideas can be copyrighted; The trial resumes Tuesday“; and “A nation on trial for its past; Serbia and Montenegro may become the first country to be found guilty of genocide.” Posted at 8:22 PM by Howard Bashman“Abortion ban might resound politically; Decision could be issue long-term for Rounds”: The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, South Dakota today contains an article that begins, “Sometime in the next week or so, Gov. Mike Rounds will make a decision that could reverberate across the nation, work its way through the federal court system and eventually land at the doorstep of the highest court in the land.” And this past Friday’s issue of The Kansas City Star contained an article headlined “Abortion challenge brews in S. Dakota; State confronts Roe v. Wade.” Posted at 3:33 PM by Howard Bashman“Judge keeps his feelings on death penalty private”: This past Wednesday’s edition of The San Jose Mercury News contained an article that begins, “Anyone curious about the motives of the federal judge who has temporarily put the brakes on executions in California should know this: Jeremy Fogel comes with plenty of personal biases.” Posted at 12:23 PM by Howard BashmanIn the March 13, 2006 issue of Newsweek: The magazine contains an item headlined “CW: Anna Nicole Supreme Edition; Buxom grieving widow wows Washington and the Supremes with her classy black duds; Talk about a super-duper precedent.” The CW even mentions the name of a popular law-related blog. And columnist Steven Levy has an essay entitled “BlackBerry Deal: Patently Absurd; It’s like a judge in a murder case pondering execution while ignoring new DNA evidence.” Posted at 12:14 PM by Howard Bashman“Who Were the First Americans? They may have been a lot like Kennewick Man, whose hotly disputed bones are helping rewrite our earliest history.” That’s the headline of the cover story in the March 13, 2006 issue of Time magazine. My earlier, appellate-related Kennewick Man coverage appears (among other places) at this link. Posted at 12:10 PM by Howard BashmanIn the March 13, 2006 issue of U.S. News & World Report: The magazine will contain articles headlined “A Break in the Ranks: Strong state laws are bad strategy, say some abortion foes” and “Packing Heat: The White House defends its warrantless spying program, but a small army of lawyers is gunning to shoot it down.” Posted at 12:04 PM by Howard BashmanIn today’s edition of The St. Petersburg Times: Columnist Robyn E. Blumner has an op-ed entitled “If judges won’t stand up to Bush, who will?” And columnist Howard Troxler has an op-ed entitled “Even Homer can defend our nation’s 5 freedoms.” Posted at 12:00 PM by Howard Bashman“Retardation issue looms big in Bexar”: The San Antonio Express-News today contains an article that begins, “The verdict was predictable: Guilty. What came next was unprecedented — at least in Bexar County. Faced with a last-minute claim that Ronnie Joe Neal might be mentally retarded, the judge abruptly halted the capital murder trial, giving defense attorneys a month to more closely examine the 35-year-old lawn man who murdered an Alamo Heights teacher.” Posted at 9:24 AM by Howard Bashman“Peru pushes Yale for Inca artifacts; Clashes between museums, nations more frequent”: This article appears today in The Chicago Tribune. Posted at 9:20 AM by Howard BashmanIn today’s edition of The New York Times: An article reports that “U.S. Judge to Rule Whether Confession in Israel Can Be Used.” And Adam Liptak has an article headlined “The Ads Discriminate, but Does the Web?” in the Week in Review section. Posted at 9:10 AM by Howard Bashman“The GOP’s Order on The Court”: Columnist David S. Broder has this op-ed today in The Washington Post. Posted at 8:44 AM by Howard Bashman“The Road From Roe: Can technology break the abortion stalemate?” William Saletan has this human nature essay online at Slate. Posted at 8:35 AM by Howard Bashman |
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