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Saturday, January 18, 2014

“For Supreme Court, it’s not the law, it’s the power of five: Getting to a majority of five is the deciding factor at the nation’s highest court.” Law professor Eric J. Segall will have this op-ed in Sunday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 10:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gay-Marriage Cases Hand One Appeals Court a Rare Starring Role”: In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Ashby Jones has an article that begins, “A sleepy court is about to get its turn in the limelight. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, one of the nation’s 13 federal appeals courts, doesn’t have firebrand judges and isn’t routinely reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Posted at 2:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Will Consider Whether Police Need Warrants to Search Cellphones”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article headlined “Supreme Court to decide case on police cellphone searches.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court to rule on 4th Amendment, cellphone searches.”

And Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Can police search suspect’s cellphone with no warrant? Supreme Court to rule; The Supreme Court has allowed police to search closed containers found on a suspect, but defense lawyers say cellphones now hold so much data that a warrant must be obtained.”

Posted at 2:03 PM by Howard Bashman