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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

“Argument preview: The Court’s options on voting rights.” Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

Posted at 9:40 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Considers If Warrantless DNA Swab Violates Constitution”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “DNA a civil rights issue in Supreme Court case.”

Ariane De Vogue of ABC News has a report headlined “Arrestee DNA and Rape: One Prosecutor’s Story Arrives at Supreme Court.”

The Daily Times of Salisbury, Maryland reports today that “Supreme Court to hear first Wicomico Case in a century; DNA matches 2003 rape case.”

And Bill Mears of CNN.com has a report headlined “Privacy vs. prosecution: DNA testing gets high court review.”

Posted at 8:37 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court set to update legal definition of hate-speech in first ruling of Internet age”: The National Post has an article that begins, “Canada’s controversial 20-year-old legal definition of hatred is set to be updated or even overturned on Wednesday, as the Supreme Court of Canada rules in the case of William Whatcott, a born-again anti-gay pamphleteer who ran afoul of Saskatchewan’s Human Rights Code.”

Posted at 8:15 AM by Howard Bashman



“Lesson with merit: Orie Melvin case has a bigger point for lawmakers.” This editorial appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

And today’s edition of The Times-Tribune of Scranton, Pennsylvania contains an editorial entitled “Orie Melvin should resign.”

Posted at 8:14 AM by Howard Bashman



“Robert E. Bacharach confirmed as federal appeals court judge; The Oklahoma City magistrate judge’s confirmation was delayed by politics for nearly nine months before he was unanimously approved by U.S. Senate”: Chris Casteel has this article today in The Oklahoman.

And The Norman Transcript reports today that “Senate confirms OU grad to post.”

Posted at 8:04 AM by Howard Bashman