“Stanford Investor Class Actions Restored by Appeals Court”: Bloomberg News has this report.
Terry Baynes and Jonathan Stempel of Reuters report that “Class-actions by Allen Stanford investors revived.”
And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Stanford investor suits can go forward.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.
“Complications beset ‘posthumous conception’ case”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this news update.
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Death benefits for children produced by in vitro fertilization?”
Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “Justices at odds over benefits for child conceived after death of a parent.”
Shannon Bream of FoxNews.com has a report headlined “Old vs. new at the High Court.”
And this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered” contained an audio segment featuring Nina Totenberg entitled “Justices Weigh IVF Technology Against 1939 Law.” Earlier, on today’s broadcast of “Morning Edition,” Totenberg previewed the oral argument in an audio segment entitled “Is A Baby Conceived After Dad’s Death A ‘Survivor’?”
“U.S. Supreme Court to decide execution delay case”: Jack Torry of The Columbus Dispatch has this news update.
And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Competency and death-row challenges.”
“D.C. Circuit Weighs U.S. Citizen’s Torture Suit Against Rumsfeld”: Mike Scarcella has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”
“How ObamaCare Is Exposing Conservative vs. Libertarian Divisions on the Supreme Court”: Damon W. Root has this essay online at Reason.
“Prosecutors Gear Up For GPS Drug Case, Sans Tracking Data”: Mike Scarcella has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”
“New Look at an Old Memo Casts More Doubt on Rehnquist”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.
“Louisville parents wants U.S. Supreme Court to hear cap on athlete scholarships”: The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky has this news update.
“At Heart of Health Law Clash, a 1942 Case of a Farmer’s Wheat”: Adam Liptak will have this article Tuesday in The New York Times.
The newspaper has also posted online “A Guide to the Supreme Court Challenges to Obama’s Health Care Law.”
“Court hears Southern Union appeal of $18M fine”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Supreme Court has indicated it could throw out an $18 million penalty against a natural gas company convicted of an environmental violation in Rhode Island.”
“Jailed for life at age 14: US supreme court to consider juvenile sentences; Court to decide constitutionality of cases like Quantel Lotts’s — who as a teenager was handed a life sentence without parole.” The Guardian (UK) has this report.
“What If The Supreme Court Kills Rent Control? Rent control seems unfair, but ending it could threaten people’s homes–and endanger important zoning regulations.” Adam Cohen has this essay online at Time magazine’s web site.
“Supreme Court refuses church-state case involving child sex abuse by clergy; US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal by a man who says he was abused by a Roman Catholic priest decades ago; He sought to challenge the archdiocese’s assertion that the First Amendment shields it from a lawsuit”: Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has this report.
And Bloomberg News reports that “Sex-Abuse Suit Against Archdiocese Rejected by Top Court.”
“Court: Benefits for babies born after dad’s death?” Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press has this report.
You can access the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Astrue v. Capato, No. 11-159, at this link.
“Supreme Court to hear death row mental competency cases”: James Vicini of Reuters has this report.
“Juvenile Murderers: Is Life Without Parole Unconstitutional?” Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has this report.
And online at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen has an essay entitled “Should Teen Murderers Receive Life Without Parole?”
“A Conversation with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor”: Reuters has just posted online this lengthy video segment.
South Dakota inmate’s request for a succah behind bars results in a second Eighth Circuit ruling: My coverage of the first ruling, which issued in September 2009, can be accessed here.
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.
“US appeals court backs graphic cigarette labels”: The Associated Press has this report on a lengthy ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today.
Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: You can access today’s Order List at this link. The Court granted review in two cases.
Update: In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Court to hear Ariz., Ohio appeals“; “High court rejects Christian campus groups’ appeal“; and “High court turns down Louisiana bid on Census.”
“Ex-Prisoners Say Life Term Is Cruel for Teens, As Case Hits High Court”: Sandra McElwaine has this article online today at The Daily Beast.
“Fake ID use upsets military veterans”: This article appears today in The Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“Laws may end up before top court”: In today’s edition of The San Antonio Express-News, Gary Martin has an article that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court could have the final say in a flurry of legal filings that challenge voter identification laws in several states, including Texas.”
“Holding Court: The wrong argument on health-care reform.” Jeffrey Toobin has this comment in the March 26, 2012 issue of The New Yorker.
Seth Stern of Bloomberg News reports that “Health-Care Challenge Evokes Roosevelt New Deal High Court Clash.”
Politico.com reports that “Health-care reform still standing.”
And at The New Republic, Jonathan Cohn has a blog post titled “Obamacare on Trial: Case of the Century?”