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Friday, June 4, 2010

“Sotomayor Making Good on a Commitment to a Scrappy College With a Family Tie”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

The New York Daily News reports today that “Sprawling Bronxdale Houses to be renamed after former resident Justice Sonia Sotomayor.”

The Wall Street Journal reports today that “Judge’s Return Splits Bronx.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google News.

And The Associated Press reports that “Sotomayor revisits her NYC school, housing project.”

Posted at 8:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“6th Circuit Takes Lead As Most Reversed Appeals Court”: Today in The Daily Journal of California, Lawrence Hurley has an article that begins, “The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, often categorized as too liberal and out of sync with the more conservative U.S. Supreme Court, faces some unusual competition this term for its crown as the most reversed circuit.”

Posted at 3:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“In Supreme Court Work, Early Views of Kagan”: Charlie Savage has this article today in The New York Times. In addition, Javier C. Hernandez has an article headlined “Breakfast With Dean Kagan: A Student Journalist’s Eye-Opener.”

Today’s edition of The Washington Post reports that “Kagan tested by 1990s battles over tobacco legislation.”

The Associated Press reports that “Senators await Clinton-era files on Kagan.”

At her “Crossroads” blog, CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford has a post titled “Documents Show Kagan’s Liberal Opinion on Social Issues.”

Gallup has issued a news release headlined “Support for Confirming Kagan Trails That of Recent Nominees; Forty-six percent want Senate to vote in favor of her nomination.”

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Tony Mauro has a post titled “ABA In Midst of Kagan Evaluation.”

Posted at 10:40 AM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. appeals court considering teens’ Web cases”: Nathan Gorenstein has this article today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

In today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Shannon P. Duffy reports that “3rd Circuit Mulls Student Suspensions for MySpace Postings.”

And at the “School Law” blog of Education Week, Mark Walsh has a post titled “Full 3rd Circuit Weighs Student Web Speech.”

In the post immediately below from yesterday afternoon, I linked to the audio of yesterday’s en banc oral argument.

Posted at 10:28 AM by Howard Bashman