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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

“Why Companies Don’t Deserve Personal Privacy Rights”: Adam Cohen has this essay online at the web site of Time magazine.

Posted at 10:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“Copyright confusion: A suit pitting Omega against Costco has resulted in an unsatisfactory ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit regarding resale rights.” This editorial appears Thursday in The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 10:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Scalia Plans to Deliver Speech Before Bachmann’s Tea Party Caucus”: Greg Stohr and Lisa Lerer of Bloomberg News have this report.

Posted at 10:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“A pawn in a legal chess match: Shirley Ree Smith spent 10 years behind bars for the death of her grandson before her conviction was overturned; Now she waits on skid row as the courts sort out whether a jury’s verdict–even if wrong–must prevail.” Carol J. Williams will have this article Thursday in The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 8:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Court Rebuffs Obama on Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking”: At Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post that begins, “A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected the Obama administration’s contention that the government is never required to get a court warrant to obtain cell-site information that mobile-phone carriers retain on their customers.”

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an order denying the federal government’s petition for rehearing en banc.

My earlier coverage of the three-judge panel’s ruling in this case appears here and here.

Posted at 8:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Court Order on Greenhouse Gas Rules Provides Comfort to Industry Challengers”: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has an article that begins, “When a federal appeals court announced Friday that it wouldn’t stay U.S. EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations, it was not the completely decisive win for the Obama administration it may have seemed.”

Posted at 10:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“Cuccinelli basking in court victory”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports today that “Justice Department to appeal health ruling.”

The New York Times contains articles headlined “Ruling Has Some Mulling the Necessity of Mandating Insurance” and “Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition.”

And The Los Angeles Times contains an editorial entitled “The individual mandate: It’s constitutional; The legal case against it almost certainly will make its way to the Supreme Court before the individual mandate is due to take effect in 2014; But considered in its proper context, it doesn’t violate the Constitution.”

Posted at 8:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“Seeking a path to restore order in the N.J. Supreme Court”: Law professor Edward A. Hartnett has this op-ed today in The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger.

The op-ed begins, “Several years ago — before Chris Christie was elected governor, before Stuart Rabner was named chief justice, before Roberto Rivera-Soto joined the Supreme Court of New Jersey — I wrote an article in the Seton Hall Law Review arguing that the New Jersey Constitution permits the chief justice to temporarily assign a Superior Court judge to the state Supreme Court only when the court would otherwise lack a quorum.”

Posted at 7:50 AM by Howard Bashman