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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

“Mo. man receives $7,000 after arrest for flag desecration”: Online at the First Amendment Center, David L. Hudson Jr. has a report that begins, “A Cape Girardeau, Mo., man arrested for desecrating an American flag must be paid $7,000 in compensatory damages, a federal judge has ruled.”

Posted at 3:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Gun Ruling Doesn’t Block Proposed Controls”: Adam Liptak will have this article Wednesday in The New York Times.

Posted at 2:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Spurning the beach in Hawaii, senior judge moving to Texas to help out the Western District”: Today at the “Tex Parte Blog” of Texas Lawyer, John Council has a post that begins, “It is safe to assume that most practicing lawyers and judges in the state of Texas have dreamed of retiring on the Hawaiian Islands at some point in their lives. And Senior U.S. District Judge David Ezra is planning a similar journey, except in reverse.”

Posted at 12:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why It Might Be Hard to Completely Ban Gay Conversion Therapy: Is this treatment protected speech? Two California courts disagree.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 12:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“I write separately merely to remind the district judges of this circuit of the importance of careful consideration of the wisdom of imposing de facto life sentences.” So begins a concurring opinion that Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner issued today in a case in which a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit unanimously dismissed as frivolous an appeal challenging the imposition of a 50-year federal sentence of imprisonment on a 46-year-old man convicted of producing child pornography.

Posted at 12:09 PM by Howard Bashman



Congratulations to the “Exemplary Legal Writing 2012 Honorees” of The Green Bag Almanac & Reader: You can view the list of works being honored at this link.

Posted at 11:38 AM by Howard Bashman



“Two bank robbers escape from Loop federal jail”: The Chicago Sun-Times has this news update.

Update: The Associated Press has a report headlined “2 inmates escape from federal prison in Chicago” that begins, “Two convicted bank robbers are at large after using a knotted rope or bed sheets to escape from a federal prison window high above downtown Chicago early Tuesday, a week after one of them made a courtroom vow of retribution.”

Posted at 11:11 AM by Howard Bashman



“New Data Shows Judicial Election Ad Spending Breaks Record at $29.7 Million; One Outside Group Spent $429,000 in Louisiana Election”: The Brennan Center for Justice and Justice at Stake issued this news release yesterday.

Posted at 11:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Scalia in ’08 — Right to bear arms is ‘not unlimited.'” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has a blog post titled “Supreme Court and Guns: Justices Have Yet to ‘Clarify the Entire Field.’

And at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center, Lyle Denniston has a blog post titled “Constitution Check: Is the Supreme Court partly to blame for Newtown?

Posted at 8:30 AM by Howard Bashman