“The six appellants went to the plaza in front of the [U.S.] Supreme Court building and there unfurled a large banner displaying a message in opposition to the death penalty. After receiving warnings from the police that their conduct was illegal, appellants were arrested.” So begins an opinion that the District of Columbia Court of Appeals issued today.
At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has a post titled “D.C. Court Upholds Arrest of Protesters at Supreme Court.”
Ninth Circuit rejects “novel and creative” lawsuit against the registrar of a domain site that bombarded the plaintiff with more than 1,000 unwanted emails advertising a pornographic website: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Balsam v. Tucows Inc. at this link.
“20 states ask judge to throw out Obama health law”: The Associated Press has this report.
“The ‘Equity of the Statute’ doctrine is alive and well — although unmentioned by the Supreme Court — more than seven centuries after its origin at common law.” Two judges serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit do not believe that the U.S. Supreme Court‘s recent unanimous ruling in Abbott v. United States, No. 09-479, reached the correct result, according to a concurring opinion that those two judges issued today.
“Resort will host chief justices”: This article appears today in The Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail.
One of the likely attendees will be New Hampshire’s brand new, and first female, Chief Justice, Linda Dalianis.
The Manchester Union Leader reports today that “Dalianis again makes history, now as chief justice.”
The Concord Monitor reports that “Dalianis sworn in as chief justice; Crowd gathers to pay tribute to her.”
And The Nashua Telegraph reports that “Nashua’s Dalianis hits 3rd milestone.”
“Case could sink abuse suits; State Supreme Court to decide constitutionality of suspending statute of limitations”: Sean O’Sullivan has this article today in The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware.
“Slow pace of justice: State will feel effects of a clogged court system without new appellate court.” The Las Vegas Sun contains this editorial today.
“Health Suits Stir Concerns on Court Partisanship”: This article appears today in The New York TImes, along with an article headlined “On Health Law, Check Back in a Generation.”
Today’s edition of The St. Petersburg Times reports that “McCollum’s challenge of Obama’s health care plan is central to national debate.”
Newsweek has an article headlined “Will The Supreme Court Overturn Health-Care Reform? Why this week’s federal district court ruling is only the start of the debate over whether the individual mandate to buy health insurance is unconstitutional.”
Bloomberg News reports that “Obama Administration, States Take Defense of Health-Care Fight to Florida.”
The Associated Press reports that “Courts may not get last word in health care fight.”
And today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment entitled “Health Care Rulings Reignite Judicial Bias Debate.”
“The Politicization of a Respected Court”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “When Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey chose not to renominate Justice John Wallace Jr. to the State Supreme Court in May, it was a case of political overreach. The situation is now a national disgrace, thanks to the governor, the State Senate president, Stephen Sweeney, and Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto.”
And in today’s edition of The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, Paul Mulshine has an op-ed entitled “The governor should be running for precedent.”
“Legal challenge to judicial retention vote is questioned”: Grant Schulte and Jennifer Jacobs have this article today in The Des Moines Register.
“Okla. set to execute inmate with substitute drug”: The Associated Press has this report.
