“Court: No forced medication for Loughner.” The Arizona Republic has this news update.
In Wednesday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, Carol J. Williams will have an article headlined “Jared Lee Loughner can refuse anti-psychotic drugs, court rules; The injunction against forcing the Tucson shooting suspect to take the medication is to last until his appeal of the prison medical team’s treatment plan is done.”
The Wall Street Journal has a news update headlined “Federal Court Sides With Loughner in Drug Debate.”
Ariane de Vogue of ABC News reports that “Court Rules Jared Lee Loughner Can Refuse Anti-Psychotic Medication.”
And at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a post titled “Appeals court extends ban on forced drugging of Jared Loughner.”
You can access today’s per curiam ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.
“Ninth Circuit essentially demands Congress amend restitution law to allow victims to recover from child porn possessor”: Doug Berman has this post today at his “Sentencing Law and Policy” blog discussing a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.
“Ralph’s, Albertson’s Profit Sharing Amid Strike Needs Scrutiny, Court Says”: Bloomberg News has this report on a ruling that an eleven-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.
And Reuters reports that “9th Circuit upholds grocers labor ruling.”
In commentary available online via SSRN: Law professor Herbert M. Kritzer has a paper titled “Change in State Supreme Court Elections: Is Voting Becoming More Partisan?” (via “Legal Theory Blog“).
And law professor N. William Hines has an article titled “Marching to a Different Drummer? Are Lower Courts Faithfully Implementing the Evolving Due Process Guideposts to Catch and Correct Excessive Punitive Damages Awards?” (via “Legal Theory Blog“).
“Third Circuit Reaffirms Berrier – Third Restatement Applies in Pennsylvania Federal Court”: The “Drug and Device Law” blog has this post reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today.
“Gay adoption case reaches Court; A new gay rights case reaches the Court, testing parents’ rights under the Constitution’s Full Faith and Credit Clause”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”
Articles of interest recently published in The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers: In today’s newspaper, Ben Present has an article headlined “Superior Court to Identify Authors of Memorandums” in which I am quoted.
Today’s newspaper also contains this month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column, headlined “The 3rd Circuit’s Report Card From the U.S. Supreme Court.” This month’s column is part one of a two-part series.
And in yesterday’s newspaper, Amaris Elliott-Engel had an article headlined “Allocatur Denial May Mean Hundreds of HRT Cases Remain in Phila.” My earlier coverage of that news appears at this link.
In the Spring 2011 issue of The Green Bag: Two interesting items about West Publishing Co. — see here and here.
If, for some inexplicable reason, you refuse to purchase a subscription to The Green Bag and thus forfeit any chance at obtaining collectibles such as U.S. Supreme Court Justice bobblehead dolls, you can nevertheless now freely access online all of the publication’s contents back to the Autumn 2006 issue and certain of the contents from earlier issues via this link.
Word on the street is that this is one of the few law review-like publications that Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. routinely enjoys reading.
“The Burkean Justice: Samuel Alito’s understanding of community and tradition distinguishes him from his Supreme Court colleagues.” Adam J. White has this lengthy article in the July 18, 2011 issue of The Weekly Standard.
“Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer shows progressive streak”: Law professor David E. Bernstein and Josh Blackman have this op-ed today in The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger.
“Supreme Court Picks One EPA Enforcement Case Over Another and Attorneys Ask Why”: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has this report (via The New York Times).
