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Thursday, March 27, 2014

“NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune to fight ruling on disclosure of online commenter information”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

Posted at 10:47 PM by Howard Bashman



Paul D. Clement stakes out latest controversial position — how to pronounce the “A” in Chick-fil-A: Clement is known as the darling of conservative litigating causes, and based on its founder‘s political views (and very tasty products) Chick-fil-A is a favorite eatery of many conservative chicken lovers (no, I don’t mean it that way).

Putting all that to one side, close behind the mystery of what foxes say is the vexing question, to quote Yahoo! Answers: “Do you pronounce it Chick-Fil-AY or Chick-Fil-uh?

This past Tuesday evening’s broadcast of the PBS NewsHour contained a segment titled “Can corporations exercise religious rights? Supreme Court hears case on contraception coverage.” At approximately 2 minutes and 27 seconds into that video segment, Clement pronounces Chick-fil-A as “Chick-fil-uh.” With all due respect to my esteemed appellate colleague, the restaurant chain’s name is pronounced “chick-fi-lay,” because they are selling you a boneless piece of chicken.

In further support of my position, I respectfully refer readers to the Twitter postings of Chick-fil-A aficionado, and self-pronounced conservative Texas Supreme Court Justice, Don R. Willett (pronounced, for present purposes only, “will-lay”) here, here, and here.

Or, you could just watch this Chick-fil-A commercial on YouTube and see at the very end of the commercial how the announcer pronounces it.

Posted at 4:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Cameras at the Supreme Court: They ought to be in pictures.” Steven Mazie has this post at The Economist’s “Democracy in America” blog.

Posted at 10:54 AM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. in Odd Spot in Case on Protester Rights”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that “Supreme Court leaning against anti-Bush demonstrators in free speech case.”

In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin has an article headlined “Supreme Court Weighs Rights of Protesters, Secret Service; Protesters Say Their First Amendment Rights Were Violated During 2004 Presidential Campaign Event.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Justices side with Secret Service in discrimination case.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Is Secret Service ‘above the law’? Supreme Court hears protest case; The Secret Service moved anti-Bush protesters behind pro-Bush protesters in 2004, citing a security concern; The plaintiffs charged discrimination in a case heard by the Supreme Court Wednesday.”

Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “Justices appear to back Secret Service in protest dispute.”

Josh Gerstein of Politico.com reports that “SCOTUS skeptical of anti-George W. Bush protesters.”

And on yesterday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Protesters Want To Sue Secret Service: Do They Have The Right?

Posted at 8:40 AM by Howard Bashman



“Sweeping Ruling on Domestic Violence”: 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 bolsters domestic violence gun ban.”

In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage has an article headlined “Supreme Court keeps guns away from those guilty of domestic violence; Justices strengthen a federal law that forbids anyone convicted of domestic violence from having a gun.”

And Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court upholds gun ban for domestic violence.”

Posted at 8:32 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court justice, wife sue Inquirer”: This article appears today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Yesterday, I had this post linking to other coverage and an online copy of the complaint filed in the case.

Posted at 8:17 AM by Howard Bashman