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Saturday, May 26, 2012

“State-based insurance marketplaces hang in balance of Supreme Court health-care ruling”: This article will appear Sunday in The Washington Post.

Posted at 11:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Know-It-Alls Who Say Nothing: A SCOTUS clerk never tells.” At New York magazine’s web site, Jason Zengerle has an essay that begins, “On Thursday evenings when the Supreme Court is in session, its clerks host one of the world’s most rarefied happy hours, gathering for drinks in the building’s cafeteria, or, when the weather’s nice, in one of the Court’s four magisterial courtyards.”

Posted at 7:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Can State Laws Cohabit With Citizens United?” Lincoln Caplan will have this essay in the Sunday Review section of Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 7:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“High court: No immunity in case of 15-year-old killed by prop gun used in school play.” Today’s edition of The Deseret News contains an article that begins, “The Utah Supreme Court ruled Friday that a federal lawsuit brought by the family of a boy who was killed while handling a blank-firing prop pistol before a school play can proceed.”

And The Salt Lake Tribune reports today that “Supreme Court paves way for ‘prop gun’ lawsuit to move forward; Family of a boy killed during a school production has filed a lawsuit in federal court.”

You can access yesterday’s 3-to-2 ruling of the Supreme Court of Utah at this link.

Posted at 4:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“You Can’t Always Choose Your Talents: William Rehnquist, The Novelist.” Law professor Kyle Graham has this post at his blog, “noncuratlex.com.”

Other recent posts of interest at that blog from earlier this month are titled:

From the Library of Congress: Warren Burger Gives Some Advice to Harry Blackmun; William Rehnquist Says Blackmun is a ‘Meh’ Writer“;

From the Reagan Library: Robert Bork Seriously Just Can’t Buy a Break“;

From the Reagan Library: Questions for President Reagan to Ask Prospective Nominees Rehnquist and Scalia (1986)“;

From the Reagan Library: The Details of the O’Connor Nomination (1981)“;

From the Reagan Library: Anthony Kennedy’s Unknown ‘Philosophical Moorings’ (1986)“;

From the Reagan Library: John Roberts and ‘Legislative Masochism’ (1983)“;

From the Reagan Library: Pat Buchanan Touts Scalia (1985) + Scalia, the Consensus Builder (1986).”

Via tweet from “Above the Law.”

Posted at 2:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Batavia woman can’t be sued for fake online relationship”: Today’s edition of The Kane County Chronicle contains an article that begins, “An Illinois Supreme Court ruling this week will not allow a California woman to sue a Batavia woman for deceiving her in an 18-month online relationship.”

Today’s edition of The Chicago Sun-Times contains an article headlined “Online hoax leads to one conclusion: People are weird.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Chicago-area woman can’t be sued over fake personas.”

You can access Thursday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Illinois at this link.

Posted at 10:26 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme cuz mugged in Bx.” The New York Post has a report that begins, “The cousin of US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was mugged in The Bronx by two thugs who took her iPhone, a police source said yesterday.”

Posted at 10:12 AM by Howard Bashman