“Mont. same-sex parental rights ruling appealed”: The Associated Press provides this report.
“President Bush’s Supreme Court Victory Lap”: Tony Mauro has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”
“NY appeals court overturns terrorism verdicts”: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “An appeals court in New York has overturned terrorism convictions that led to long prison terms for a Yemeni cleric and his deputy.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.
Programming note: Today, I’ll be delivering an appellate oral argument in a case pending before the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. Additional posts will appear here this afternoon.
“Court Won’t Revisit Death Penalty Case”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.
Today in The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that “Court Won’t Reconsider Ban on Execution for Child Rape.”
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court upholds death penalty ban in the rape of a child; A five-justice majority says the court’s ruling barring capital punishment in the rape of a child will stand, despite a military law allowing the death penalty in such cases.”
Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Despite gaffe, Supreme Court won’t revisit landmark child-rape ruling; Five justices footnote their June opinion about a ‘national consensus’ against using the death penalty for child rapists.”
And The Times-Picayune of New Orleans reports that “Supreme Court won’t rehear La. child rape case; Death penalty cruel, unusual punishment in Jefferson case.”
