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Saturday, April 2, 2011

“Little headway made at Guantanamo; Lawyers fighting to free detainees thought they gained ground in 2008 when the Supreme Court gave prisoners the right to a trial and Obama was elected president; But nothing much has changed, and now a series of appeals may be doomed”: David G. Savage will have this article Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 11:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court shields prosecutors in wrongful convictions; Though new DNA testing has shown hundreds of convicts to be innocent, the court has protected prosecutors from lawsuits and balked at letting prisoners reopen cases”: David G. Savage will have this article Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 11:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“When a Lawsuit Is Too Big”: Adam Liptak will have this article in the Week in Review section of Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:35 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Statistical Test Gets Its Closeup”: WSJ.com’s “The Numbers Guy” blog has a post that begins, “My print column this week examines the concept of statistical significance — a concept that the Supreme Court recently weighed in on, but that remains elusive even to some scientists who use it to determine whether their experimental findings are worth reporting.”

The print column in question is headlined “Making a Stat Less Significant,” and it begins, “A group of mathematicians has been trying for years to have a core statistical concept debunked. Now, the Supreme Cout might have done it for them.”

Posted at 10:22 AM by Howard Bashman



“Report: Outside interests have spent $2.16 million on Supreme Court race ads.” This article appears today in The Wisconsin State Journal.

Posted at 10:20 AM by Howard Bashman



“Making a case vs. Obama’s health care law; Legal scholar’s opposition gets attention”: Today’s edition of The Boston Globe contains an article that begins, “Libertarian legal scholar Randy Barnett, a former Boston University professor who now teaches at Georgetown, fulfilled a lifelong wish three years ago when he appeared in a low-budget sci-fi movie — a genre-blending legal drama about an adolescent parasite from outer space. Most critics ignored it.”

Posted at 10:04 AM by Howard Bashman



“Legal scholars examine the U.S. high court’s ‘Supreme Mistakes’; A high-powered gathering of legal scholars at Pepperdine’s law school look at five decisions widely considered the worst in the court’s history; The rulings are presented as learning opportunities as well as thwarted justice”: Carol J. Williams has this article [link corrected] today in The Los Angeles Times.

Additional information on yesterday’s program can be accessed via this link.

Posted at 9:47 AM by Howard Bashman