“Hayes’ lawyer will argue death penalty too costly; Prosecutor calls tactic ‘irrelevant'”: Saturday’s edition of The New Haven Register contained an article that begins, “With the start of the penalty phase of the Steven Hayes trial a little over a week away, attorneys for the former Winsted man have filed legal papers indicating they will use an economic argument to keep their client from being put to death for the murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters.”
“Getting to Five”: In the Sunday Book Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times, Dahlia Lithwick has this review of the book “Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion” by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel.
And in today’s edition of The Newark Star-Ledger, Stewart Pollock — formerly a Justice on the Supreme Court of New Jersey — has a review of the book headlined “Newark native judged by his belief that human dignity was a right.”
“Goering, a museum and Nazi-looted art”: Michael Kirkland of UPI has a report that begins, “How many years, how many laws or court rulings, how many regulations does it take to wash the tragedy from a work of art? What makes an artwork — stolen from desperate people, part of what would become the largest claim of restitution involving Nazi theft — clean enough to be kept in a museum? The U.S. Supreme Court may have a try at finding out.”
“Seamy allegations don’t fit Jack Camp’s courtly life”: This front page article appears today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
And in today’s edition of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, columnist James Gill has an essay entitled “Judges gone wild all over the South.”
“The Competition for Supreme Court Cases”: Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
“In Topeka, the Price of Free Speech”: In today’s edition of The New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger has an article that begins, “As the United States Supreme Court heard arguments last week over a small church that pickets the funerals of dead soldiers, comparisons quickly emerged to an earlier test of the bounds of the First Amendment: a 1977 decision that American neo-Nazis had a right to march through a Chicago suburb where many Holocaust survivors lived.”
“Specialists’ Help at Supreme Court Can Come With a Catch”: Adam Liptak has this front page article today in The New York Times.
