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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

“Stephen Glass, disgraced journalist, seeks California law license; The State Bar of California has rejected Stephen Glass, but the state Supreme Court has agreed to hear his case; His employer at an L.A. County law firm champions him”: Maura Dolan will have this article Wednesday in The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 9:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“Questions about chief justice’s health-care ruling could have lasting impact; Speculation persists over why Chief Justice John Roberts joined liberals to uphold the President Obama’s signature health-care reform law, and that could affect the Supreme Court”: Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has this report.

Posted at 9:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“How healthcare ruling will affect SCOTUS consideration of DOMA”: Erin Geiger Smith has this report at Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight.

Posted at 5:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Roberts wrote both Obamacare opinions; A Court source tells Salon the chief justice wrote the majority opinion and much of the dissent in the ACA case”: Law professor Paul Campos has this report at Salon.com.

Posted at 3:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Lenders in the Courthouse”: Inside Higher Ed has a report that begins, “If the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the conviction of a Thai-born graduate student who allegedly made close to $1 million importing cheaply made foreign editions of textbooks and selling them to U.S. students on eBay, then academic libraries might not be allowed to lend certain books and electronic materials, according to library advocates who plan to file an amicus brief on the case today.”

Posted at 9:10 AM by Howard Bashman



“Roberts riles the right inside and outside the Supreme Court; Reports suggest he may have switched his vote to uphold Obama’s healthcare law on a legal point”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

Meanwhile, from NPR, today’s broadcast of “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment entitled “Post Supreme Court: Reviewing The Health Care Law.” And yesterday’s broadcast of “Talk of the Nation” contained an audio segment entitled “The Takeaway From The Health Care Ruling.”

Posted at 9:00 AM by Howard Bashman