“Justices Look Again at How Police May Search Homes”: Adam Liptak will have this article Thursday in The New York Times.
Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Court reviews when police may enter someone’s home without warrant.”
In Thursday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage will have an article headlined “Supreme Court appears set to give police more leeway in searches; Conservative justices appear to agree police should be allowed to enter a suspect’s residence without a warrant if they suspect evidence is being destroyed.”
Joan Biskupic of USA Today has a news update headlined “Supreme Court hears case on home searches by police.”
And online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a Supreme Court dispatch entitled “Crime and Blandishments: What happens when Supreme Court justices try to think like criminal suspects.”
“Rivera-Soto calls off plan to abstain from N.J. Supreme Court cases involving temporary justice”: The Newark Star-Ledger has this news update.
And WSJ.com’s “Metropolis” blog has a post titled “A New Twist in N.J. Supreme Court Saga.”
“How Will Loughner’s Gunshots Echo in the Supreme Court’s Quiet Halls?” Garrett Epps has this blog post online at The Atlantic.
“Chief Justice warns Iowa lawmakers about threat to checks and balances”: Grant Schulte of The Des Moines Register has this blog post.
“Supreme Court again is asked to drop ‘In God We Trust'”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has an article that begins, “California attorney and dedicated atheist Michael Newdow is making another run at ‘In God We Trust,’ with a new Supreme Court petition challenging the national motto.”
“California judge to hear Ariz. mass shooting case”: The Associated Press has this report.
According to the article, U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns of the Southern District of California has been assigned to the case.
“Federal judges in Arizona recused in mass shooting”: The Associated Press has this report.
“Appeals court to hear arguments in Yucca Mountain lawsuit”: This article appears today in The Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“Judy Clarke: Jared Loughner’s ‘Amazing’ Attorney.” At Politics Daily, Andrew Cohen has a post that begins, “Judy Clarke is the Forrest Gump of criminal defense attorneys. Otherwise unassuming, even shy, she seems to turn up, front and center, for many of the cases we’ll never forget.”
“Legal Strategy Could Hinge on Mental Assessment”: This article appears today in The New York Times.
And online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a jurisprudence essay entitled “The Insanity Defense: If the Arizona gunman is too insane to be influenced by anyone, he’s too insane to be executed.”
“Appeals court rules against wilderness groups in road fight”: Today’s edition of The Salt Lake Tribune contains this article reporting on an en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued yesterday.
“Court denies media access to gruesome prison video”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued yesterday.
“Case of the wrong door opens at Supreme Court”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.
“Court Rules on Debtors and Doctors in Training”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.
In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that “Kagan delivers her first judicial opinion, in bankruptcy case.”
And David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has an article headlined “Elena Kagan’s first Supreme Court opinion not a dramatic one; New Supreme Court justices rarely are given important cases in their first term, and Elena Kagan’s initial effort, in a bankruptcy dispute, proved to be no exception.”
“61 apply for seat on Iowa Supreme Court”: Today’s edition of The Des Moines Register contains an article that begins, “Sixty-one people — including two who have spoken publicly about gay marriage — have applied to replace the three Iowa Supreme Court justices who were voted off the bench in November.”
And today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial entitled “Impeachment as Intimidation.”
