“Judge Orders Gmail Account Deactivated After Bank Screws Up”: At Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, Kim Zetter has a post that begins, “A California federal judge has ordered Google to temporarily de-activate a Gmail account after a bank mistakenly sent sensitive data to the account.”
And Online Media Daily reports that “Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User’s Gmail Account.”
I have posted online at this link the temporary restraining order that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued in the case on Wednesday.
Today, however, Google and the bank filed a joint motion stating that the case is now moot and asking the federal district court to vacate the temporary restraining order so that Google could reactivate the email account in question.
“Government Files Notice of Appeal in Lori Drew Case”: Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
“Vinson & Elkins Snags Elwood for Its Appellate Practice”: Tony Mauro has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”
“US Appeals Court Affirms AstraZeneca Win On Seroquel Patent”: Brent Kendall of Dow Jones Newswires has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued today.
“In Richmond court, Sept. 11 plotter seeks new trial”: Frank Green of The Richmond Times-Dispatch has a news update that begins, “Lawyers for convicted Sept. 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui were back in a federal appeals court in Richmond again this morning trying to win a new trial.”
And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Lawyer: Sept. 11 conspirator deserves new trial.”
As I noted in this post from July 2009, a new appellate oral argument was necessitated by the retirement of former Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Karen J. Williams.
“Ginsburg released from hospital, back to work”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had cancer surgery earlier this year, planned a quick return to work Friday after feeling ill at the office and spending the night in a Washington hospital as a precaution.”
In the current issue of The Harvard Law Record: The publication contains articles headlined “Souter looks beyond Supreme Court; Recently retired Supreme Court Justice looks ahead to future“;
“222 years later, constitution scholars find little to celebrate in founding document; Constitution Day panel bemoans document’s ‘ossified’, ‘anachronistic’, ‘anti-democratic’ principles“;
“Solicitors General analyze Kagan’s new role; Former Dean visits HLS on heels of first arguments as S.G.“; and
“‘I am Troy Davis’: Georgia man fights for justice from death row; Supreme Court litigation yields examination of Georgia death row inmate’s innocence.”
The first two of these articles pertain to Harvard Law School’s celebration of Constitution Day. The law school has posted online a related news release headlined “On Constitution Day, celebrating–and evaluating–our founding document; Feldman and Souter discuss models of judicial decision-making.” You can view online the Feldman-Souter discussion by clicking here (beginning at the one hour and twenty minute mark, preceded by the discussion among constitutional scholars of that document’s supposed flaws).
“Regulator on Fees: Hands Off, Courts; Fund-Industry Reforms Are Questioned.” Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal contains an article that begins, “One of the top mutual-fund regulators said Thursday that he is concerned about courts having more say in whether fees are too high. With the Supreme Court due to hear arguments in a fund-fees case on Nov. 2, Securities and Exchange Commissioner Troy Paredes said that if a fee has been negotiated in ‘good faith’ between a fund’s manager and its board, it would be wrong for judges to look for reasons why that fee is too high.”
“Preview of Major Business Cases in Supreme Court’s 2009-2010 Term”: BusinessWeek provides this report.
“Heart of Darkness? Inside the Supremes’ new term.” Dahlia Lithwick will have this essay in the October 5, 2009 issue of Newsweek.
“Conn. land vacant 4 years after court OK’d seizure”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Weeds, glass, bricks, pieces of pipe and shingle splinters have replaced the knot of aging homes at the site of the nation’s most notorious eminent domain project.”
“Sotomayor says Obama’s job offer set her heart racing; Newest Supreme Court justice recalls suspense, thrill of big day”: Joan Biskupic has this article today in USA Today.
Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Sotomayor Describes Day of Selection for C-Span; Interview Is Part of Series on Supreme Court.”
And Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press reports that “Sotomayor got lost on way to White House.”
I linked to the relevant C-SPAN video clip in this post from last night.
“Justice Ginsburg Is Hospitalized As Precaution”: Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.
Today in The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage reports that “Justice Ginsburg hospitalized after feeling faint; The 76-year-old underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in February and had received intravenous iron therapy earlier in the day; She joined the Supreme Court in 1993.”
“Lawyer Has No First Amendment Right to Wear Hat in Court, Federal Judge Decides”: law.com provides this report.
“White House Regroups on Guantanamo; Counsel Craig Replaced as Point Man on Issue as Deadline for Closing Looms”: This front page article appears today in The Washington Post.
And over the past few days, Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has written articles headlined “Judge OKs Guantanamo detention of Algerian“; “9/11 mastermind: ‘Allah,’ not lawyers, will protect me; Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who has bragged about his role in the Sept. 11 attacks, has asked to dismiss his ACLU lawyers and face his death-penalty case alone“; and “More delays, torture claims at Guantanamo war court.”
