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Friday, March 28, 2014

“Despite Supreme Court victory, wrecked houseboat’s owner still fighting”: The South Florida Sun Sentinel has a news update that begins, “Despite his huge win at the nation’s highest court over a year ago, Fane Lozman says he has little to show for it.”

Posted at 11:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Facebook rapper seeks Supreme Court appeal in threats case”: Peter Hall will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Posted at 10:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Voter rights groups appeal documentation ruling”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Voting rights groups filed an appeal Friday of a judge’s order that federal election officials must help Kansas and Arizona enforce state laws requiring new voters to provide documentation proving their U.S. citizenship.”

Posted at 8:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Preview: Just Add Computer? SCOTUS Processes ‘Computer-Implemented’ Inventions.” Tom P. Taylor of Bloomberg BNA has this blog post.

Posted at 8:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Newport says it will fight group home decision; City plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court after a lower court decided that bias was involved in the treatment of sober-living facilities”: The Daily Pilot of Costa Mesa, California has this report.

Posted at 1:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Go to the Supreme Court, win $25,000!” The Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster (Pa.) New Era has an article that begins, “The East Earl owners of Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. on Thursday received a $25,000 Heritage Foundation prize for taking their religious liberty fight to the Supreme Court.”

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



Know your cuts of meat: Fans of this Late Show with David Letterman sketch may enjoy an opinion that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

In early coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court rules in favor of meat labels.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Court rejects challenge to meat label rule.”

And Bloomberg News reports that “Meat Groups Lose Bid to Block Country-of-Origin Labeling.”

Posted at 11:11 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court to decide when ideas become too ‘abstract’ to patent; The case could make it harder to patent ‘computer-implemented’ business methods, including software; Google, Facebook, Macy’s, and Twitter beg the Court to do so; yet IBM disagrees”: Roger Parloff of Fortune has this report.

Posted at 10:58 AM by Howard Bashman



“Centuries Haven’t Yet Set Bank’s Jurisdiction”: Tim Hull of Courthouse News Service has a report that begins, “For purposes of jurisdiction, Wells Fargo is a citizen of South Dakota, not California, the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday, lamenting that such questions remain unsettled after more than century.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 10:54 AM by Howard Bashman



“Prof. Michael McConnell (Stanford) on the Hobby Lobby arguments”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 8:30 AM by Howard Bashman



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