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Saturday, April 16, 2011

“In Oregon, medical pot and guns go hand in hand; But some local sheriffs don’t think medical marijuana users should be allowed to obtain concealed weapons permits; The case is before the state Supreme Court”: This article will appear Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 11:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“A conservative defense of ObamaCare: A Reaganite scholar expounds on its constitutionality.” Columnist Steve Chapman will have this op-ed Sunday in The Chicago Tribune.

Posted at 11:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Sandra Day O’Connor gives civics lesson at OCU; Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor spoke Thursday at Oklahoma City University’s School of Law about her new iCivics program and her life as the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court”: This article appeared yesterday in The Oklahoman.

Posted at 11:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Branstad sees high court’s Wiggins facing tough retention vote next year”: This article appears today in The Des Moines Register.

Posted at 10:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“With students’ help, UT professor wins Supreme Court decision in death row case”: Sunday’s edition of The Austin American-Statesman will contain an article that begins, “In October, 11 University of Texas students from the School of Law’s Capital Punishment Clinic traveled to Washington to hear their professor present his plea for death row inmate Hank Skinner in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Posted at 10:54 PM by Howard Bashman



Update on challenge to the class certification of the De Beers antitrust settlement now pending before the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit: As I noted in my most recent update on this case, in which I represent the objector who prevailed before the three-judge panel, the en banc Third Circuit had issued an order allowing Class Counsel to file a response and my client to file a reply relating to my client’s response to Class Counsel’s motion for leave to file the handout that Class Counsel had wanted to use at oral argument.

Class Counsel filed their response on March 31, 2011, and yesterday I filed my client’s reply.

Posted at 4:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ethics Are for Other People: Why do Supreme Court justices think they can ignore the same rules of conduct that bind other federal judges?” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 2:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“County Results Find Incumbent the Victor in Wisconsin”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an article that begins, “David T. Prosser Jr., a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice whose re-election became intertwined with the state’s battle over cuts to collective bargaining rights, won the race by 7,316 votes, results from the state’s counties showed on Friday.”

Posted at 10:12 AM by Howard Bashman



“Patently Obvious”: In today’s edition of The New York Times, law professor Doug Lichtman has an op-ed that begins, “On Monday the Supreme Court will consider whether to fundamentally alter the way American patent law is litigated.”

Posted at 10:06 AM by Howard Bashman