“Decision on health-care law means Supreme Court will likely determine constitutionality next summer”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this news update.
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Supreme Court could rule on healthcare law early next year.”
The Washington Times has a news update headlined “Government won’t seek appeal on health care ruling.”
Greg Stohr and Seth Stern of Bloomberg News report that “Obama Won’t Seek New Appeals Court Hearing on Health Care.”
Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has a blog post titled “DOJ Speeds Path of Health Law to Supreme Court.”
And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Key health case moves on faster track.”
“Obama healthcare law headed for Supreme Court”: James Vicini of Reuters has this report.
“Top Bush Lawyers Will Face Off in Supreme Court Over Mont. Riverbed Case”: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has this report (via The New York Times).
In today’s mail: I received a copy of “Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir” by retired Justice John Paul Stevens. The book is scheduled to go on sale on Monday, October 3, 2011.
Last Thursday, Justice Stevens delivered the inaugural Stevens Lecture at in the Wittemyer Courtoom of the University of Colorado Law School. You can view the lecture online, on demand via this link.
“Ninth Circuit denies appeal of Las Vegas man who lied about being awarded a Purple Heart”: The Las Vegas Sun has a news update that begins, “A federal appeals court has rejected the appeal of a Las Vegas man convicted of wearing a Purple Heart and collecting $180,000 in disability benefits even though he was never wounded in military service.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.
In the October 2011 issue of ABA Journal magazine: Richard Brust has an article headlined “Chutzpah: Yiddish Term Makes a Showing at the Supreme Court.”
And Mark Walsh has an article headlined “Lawyers on the Docket: Court Term Kicks Off with a Look at Legal Representation.”
“Welcome to the new SCOTUSblog”: Tom Goldstein has this post at “SCOTUSblog,” announcing, among other things, that Bloomberg Law is now the exclusive sponsor of that blog.
Bloomberg Law has also posted two video interviews with Tom, “SCOTUSblog’s Goldstein on High Court’s Upcoming Business Cases” and “Goldstein Discusses SCOTUSblog, Exclusive Sponsorship.”
“Race in admissions: maintaining a vibrant, diverse student body.” Zoya Waliany has this op-ed today in The Daily Texan.
“Ohio judges would get longer life from Issue 1; Proposal would let them seek election up to age 75”: This article appears today in The Cincinnati Enquirer.
“States debate judicial elections versus appointed bench”: Reuters has a report that begins, “Several states that appoint judges are considering a switch to an elected bench, despite growing criticism from judges about the influence of money in judicial elections. One of the most active is Tennessee, where conservative legislators believe that appointed judges are out of touch with the electorate and unaccountable to voters.”
