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Monday, December 9, 2013

“California DNA criminal law: Appeals court weighs challenge to state’s taking DNA from all felony suspects.” Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News has this report.

Posted at 9:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“25 Years Later, PACER, Electronic Filing Continue to Change Courts”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has this report today.

Posted at 1:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Senate Republicans Get Argument Time in Recess Case”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Posted at 12:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judges question need for Gitmo genital searches”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Federal appeals court judges are questioning whether the government has gone too far in searching the genital areas of Guantanamo detainees who want to meet with their lawyers.”

I will post a link to the audio of today’s D.C. Circuit oral argument when it becomes available online.

Last Friday at the “Lawfare” blog, Raffaela Wakeman had a post titled “Oral Argument Preview: Hatim v. Obama, or the ‘Counsel Access Case.’

Update: In other coverage, at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Zoe Tillman has a post titled “D.C. Circuit Weighs Challenge to Groin Searches at Guantanamo Bay.”

The D.C. Circuit has posted the oral argument audio at this link (20.3 MB mp3 audio file).

Posted at 11:57 AM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals court hearings now going live and online”: Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

This week (starting today at 5 p.m. eastern time, 2 p.m. pacific time) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is scheduled to hear en banc rearguments in five separate cases. The Ninth Circuit is planning to stream the video of those oral arguments live, online.

Today’s en banc oral argument can be viewed live, online via this link (which currently displays a countdown clock). The Ninth Circuit has also posted online at this link the rehearing petition filed in the case being argued today.

Posted at 11:44 AM by Howard Bashman



“Obama’s Pollution-Control Agenda Goes to Court Tomorrow”: Mark Drajem and Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News have this report.

Posted at 9:27 AM by Howard Bashman