How Appealing



Wednesday, June 27, 2012

In Thursday’s edition of The Washington Post: Tomorrow’s newspaper will contain articles headlined “Supreme Court health care decision has Washington awaiting history” and “For SCOTUSblog, one goal: ‘Beat everybody’ and break news of health-care ruling.”

The newspaper will also contain an editorial entitled “Justice Scalia’s partisan discredit to the court.” And columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. will have an op-ed entitled “Justice Scalia must resign.”

Posted at 10:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court forces Nike to defend its right not to defend its trademarks”: Erin Geiger Smith has this report at Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight.

Posted at 9:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“How SCOTUS real estate case could affect Internet privacy litigation”: Nate Raymond has this report at Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight.

Posted at 5:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Christian Pregnancy Center Freed From Abortion Postings”: Bloomberg News has a report that begins, “A Baltimore ordinance requiring a Christian ‘pregnancy center’ to post notices that it doesn’t offer abortion referrals or birth control violates its free speech rights, a federal appeals court in Virginia ruled.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Court strikes down Md. pregnancy center ordinances.”

Today’s 2-to-1 rulings of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit came in two separate cases, and you can access those rulings here and here.

Posted at 5:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Health Care Decision Will Define The Future Of The American Health Care System”: Jeffrey Young of The Huffington Post has this report.

Posted at 2:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“[T]he llama incident returned with a vengeance.” If only he had DIRECTV instead of cable!

Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a ruling that begins, “One December day, defendant Mark Burge’s llama escaped from its pen and wandered off.” Unlike in DIRECTV commercials, however, today’s ruling seems to have a satisfactory ending for the defendant, as the appellate court holds that “[t]he district court plainly erred in failing to exclude Burge’s llama abandonment conviction” in calculating a sentence under the federal Sentencing Guidelines for a later offense.

Posted at 11:37 AM by Howard Bashman



“Top Ten Things You May Not Know About The United States Supreme Court”: Last night’s broadcast of “Late Show with David Letterman” featured this top ten list (video link).

Posted at 10:52 AM by Howard Bashman



“SCOTUS Notebook: Live Blog’s 15 Minutes of Fame and Kennedy’s Immigration Tidbit.” Mark Walsh has this post at the ABA Journal’s “Law News Now” blog.

Posted at 10:50 AM by Howard Bashman