Programming note: I will be spending Monday and Tuesday visiting the Chenango Valley area of central New York State. Additional posts will appear here Tuesday night.
On Monday at 9:30 a.m. eastern time, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue an Order List, which you can access via this link. And on Tuesday at 10 a.m. eastern time, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue one or more opinions in argued cases, which you can access very soon thereafter via this link.
“After court, gay rights spotlight shifts back to Obama”: Reuters has this report.
“Supreme Court may decide who can carry guns; As Congress and state legislatures debate gun control, the high court is likely to hear a case in the near future challenging state restrictions on carrying guns outside the home”: Richard Wolf will have this article Monday in USA Today.
“Supreme Court case asks: Are human genes patentable?” This article appears today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Supreme Court weighs whether to hear case on guns in public; Justices could raise their profile in the gun debate if they hear a challenge to a New York law that limits who can carry firearms in public”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.
“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Proposal could drag political funding into the light.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.
“Mounting Tensions Escalate Into Violence During Raid at Guantanamo Prison”: Charlie Savage will have this article Sunday in The New York Times.
And Ryan J. Reilly of The Huffington Post has an article headlined “Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Guards Fire Four Non-Lethal Shots, Force Detainees Into Single Cells.”
“Antonin Scalia’s anti-gay words are poison; so I confronted him: The justice has made his views on gay relationships painfully clear; But I know from personal experience that poisonous language like Scalia’s can be devastatingly hurtful.” Princeton University freshman Duncan Hosie will have this op-ed Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.
“Hacktivists as Gadflies”: Peter Ludlow has this interesting post today at the “Opinionator” blog of The New York Times.
“Troops forcibly move hunger strikers at Guantanamo into cells”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this news update.
And Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Shots fired amid violence at Guantanamo Bay.”
“Faltering Courts, Mired in Delays”: Sunday’s edition of The New York Times will contain this article, the first in a three-part series titled “Justice Denied: Inside the Bronx’s Dysfunctional Court System.”
“Gov. Jerry Brown vows fight with judges over prisons; Gov. Jerry Brown challenges judges’ rebuke, saying he will carry the battle over crowding to the Supreme Court”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.
And The Sacramento Bee reports today that “Jerry Brown pledges to take prison crowding case to Supreme Court.”
“In SCOTUS Rarity, Orrick Associate to Handle Oral Arguments in High Court Case”: Claire Zillman of The Am Law Daily has this report.
“Consultant Recants in Chevron Pollution Case in Ecuador”: This article appears today in The New York Times.
“Chief Justice Roberts presides over inaugural moot court competition”: The Pioneer Log, the student newspaper of Lewis & Clark College, posted this article online yesterday afternoon.
And in related news, today’s edition of The Oregonian reports that “Chief Justice John Roberts’ visit to Lewis & Clark College sparks a press freedom controversy.”
Yoo can’t go to Russia: The Associated Press reports that “Russia bans 18 Americans after similar US move.”
Update: In other coverage, Sunday’s edition of The New York Times will contain an article headlined “Russia Bars 18 Americans in Tit for Tat on Rights.”
“Supreme Court becoming ‘Charter-averse,’ expert says”: In Saturday’s edition of The Toronto Globe and Mail, Kirk Makin will have an article that begins, “Constitutional experts are questioning whether the Supreme Court of Canada still has the stomach to guarantee fundamental rights.”
“Supreme Court to consider whether firms can patent genes, the essence of life”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.
“Justice Clarence Thomas gives shout-out to Duquesne grad who helped through confirmation process”: Kaitlynn Riely of The Pittsburgh Press has this report.
“Chevron says Ecuador environmental claims now in question”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.
“Judge: DOJ Victory a ‘Warning, Not an Invitation.'” At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has this post about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.
“Married in New York but Not in Texas: Which states will let gay couples divorce if the Defense of Marriage Act is struck down? How will federal benefits work? A handy map.” William Baude has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Big Question For Supreme Court: Can You Patent A Gene?” Daniel Fisher has this post at Forbes.com.
“‘Fetal pain’ measure sent to ND governor’s desk”: The Associated Press has this report.
“Appeals panel upholds Miss. corruption conviction”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld the conviction of Richard ‘Dickie’ Scruggs, one of Mississippi’s most prominent attorneys before going to prison on judicial corruption charges.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.
“Federal judges rebuff arguments from both sides in case on lead smelter rules”: Jeremy P. Jacobs of Greenwire has this report.
“House Votes to Shut Down Labor Board”: Todd Ruger has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”
“Let’s Stop Treating the Constitution Like the Da Vinci Code: ‘Originalism’ allows judges to read into the founding document any ideas they want; Nowhere is the problem clearer than in the ongoing saga of the presidential recess appointment power.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online today at The Atlantic.
“Case on IRA Troubles escalates in US Supreme Court”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “UK Supreme Court Blog.”
“Republican Effort to Unpack the Court”: Jeremy W. Peters has this post at “The Caucus” blog of The New York Times.
“Indian Affairs, Adoption, and Race: The Baby Veronica Case Comes to Washington; A little girl is at the heart of a big case at the Supreme Court next week, a racially-tinged fight over Native American rights and state custody laws.” Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.
“Biotech Industry at Stake in Human Gene Patent Decision”: Greg Stohr and Susan Decker of Bloomberg News have this report.
“Robert H. McWilliams, Jr., retired city, state and federal judge, dies”: The Denver Post has this report.
“2 Studies Released: Religious Courts In US and State Bans on Applying Foreign Or Religious Law.” Howard Friedman has this post today at his “Religion Clause” blog.
“In a League of Their Own: Judge Landis loved baseball and hated trusts; He believed organized baseball was a monopoly; The Supreme Court disagreed.” In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Zimbalist has this review of law professor Stuart Banner‘s new book, “The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption.”
