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Monday, April 21, 2014

“Wrangle Over Oklahoma Executions Bounces From Court to Court”: Erik Eckholm will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 4:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Neil Eggleston Picked for White House Counsel”: Todd Ruger has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Posted at 4:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Oklahoma Courts at War Over Lethal Injection Secrecy; A dispute between Oklahoma’s top courts reveals the chaos in states seeking to conceal basic information about the drugs used in executions”: Andrew Cohen has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

Posted at 3:21 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Stevens’s Prescription for ‘Giant Step in Wrong Direction'”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:23 AM by Howard Bashman



“High court to hear dispute about TV over Internet”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

And at Fortune.com, Roger Parloff has an article headlined “Why the Supreme Court might pull the plug on Aereo: On Tuesday the Court will hear arguments on the legality of the disruptive wireless technology that brings broadcast TV to smartphones.”

Posted at 9:55 AM by Howard Bashman



“Celebrating Times v. Sullivan, Though Dissent Is Heard”: Kenneth Jost had this post yesterday at his blog, “Jost On Justice.”

Posted at 9:48 AM by Howard Bashman



“Juice Maker POM Heads to Court in 2 Marketing Cases; From Opposite Sides, Company Wages Legal Battles Likely to Influence Food-Marketing Practices”: Brent Kendall has this article today in The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 9:44 AM by Howard Bashman



Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court has posted the Order List at this link. The Court granted review in three new cases.

In addition, Justice Stephen G. Breyer issued a statement respecting the denial of
certiorari
in Hussain v. Obama, No. 13-638.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Court to look at ‘born in Jerusalem’ passport case“; “High court will hear case of mistaken traffic stop“; “High court rejects new Guantanamo appeal“; “Court won’t hear Fla. employee drug testing rule“; “Court won’t hear Arizona appeal over harboring ban“; and “Court rejects Exxon Mobil appeal of $105M verdict.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court to review Jerusalem birthplace law“; “Supreme Court declines to revive Arizona immigration law“; and “Top court declines Exxon’s appeal in water pollution case.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Israel Passport Designation Clash Gets U.S. Court Hearing“; “Guantanamo Inmate’s Appeal Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court“; “Arizona Rejected by High Court on Immigrant-Harboring Law“: and “Exxon Rejected by Court on $105 Million New York Award.”

At Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a blog post titled “Supreme Court takes 2nd look at Jerusalem passport case.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court to rule on Israel policy.”

Posted at 9:34 AM by Howard Bashman



“Aereo at the Supreme Court: No matter what, broadcasters lose; An industry born of innovation faces a serious challenge from a new innovator.” Andrew Cohen has this essay online today at The Week.

Posted at 8:35 AM by Howard Bashman



“Keystone Pipeline Fate Now in Hands of Nebraskan Jurists”: Bloomberg News has an article that begins, “The focus of the Keystone XL debate has shifted from a fierce lobbying war in Washington to Lincoln, Nebraska, where the state Supreme Court has been asked to weigh a legal challenge to the pipeline.”

Posted at 8:34 AM by Howard Bashman



Sunday, April 20, 2014

“Echo of 1984 Betamax landmark in U.S. high court Aereo TV fight”: Lawrence Hurley and Liana B. Baker of Reuters have this report.

Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judges can keep relatives on their payrolls; Ethics committee finding benefits two Northampton County jurists who employ family members”: Riley Yates has this front page article in today’s edition of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Posted at 8:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kurt Lash on ‘Religious Sincerity and the Hobby Lobby Investments'”: Rick Garnett had this post Friday at “Mirror of Justice.”

Posted at 5:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“CIA torture architect breaks silence to defend ‘enhanced interrogation’; James Mitchell ‘highly skeptical’ of Senate report on CIA torture; ‘It was not illegal based on the law at the time; Mitchell said to have waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed”: The Guardian (UK) has this report, together with an article headlined “James Mitchell: ‘I’m just a guy who got asked to do something for his country’; Psychologist who designed CIA’s post-9/11 torture program insists he has nothing to apologise for — and attacks ‘people with a Jack Bauer mentality who don’t understand how intel works.’

Posted at 2:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Mueller to replace Karlton on 3-judge prison court”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has a blog post that begins, “The three-judge federal court overseeing the reduction of California’s prison population will have a new member in September: U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller of Sacramento, succeeding the retiring Judge Lawrence Karlton.”

Posted at 2:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ex-justice says politics can be factor on retiring”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “John Paul Stevens says he thinks it’s appropriate for Supreme Court justices to factor in political considerations when weighing a decision to retire.”

ABC News has posted online at this link video of the interview that George Stephanopoulos conducted with retired Justice John Paul Stevens from today’s broadcast of “This Week.” And ABC News has also posted this excerpt of Justice Stevens’ new book, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution.”

Posted at 1:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“Change the Constitution in Six Easy Steps? It Won’t Be That Simple, Justice Stevens; From campaign finance to political gerrymandering, the retired Supreme Court justice skips hard arguments in his new book in favor of unrealistic, poorly drafted solutions.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen, author of the “Election Law Blog,” has this book review online at The Daily Beast.

Posted at 8:44 AM by Howard Bashman



Saturday, April 19, 2014

“Utah same-sex marriage opponents hope case not undone by technicality; The question of whether the suit targeted the appropriate officials may become an issue”: Marissa Lang has this article in today’s edition of The Salt Lake Tribune.

Posted at 11:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ted Cruz, Invoking Reagan, Angers GOP Colleagues but Wins Fans Elsewhere; Texas Senator Is a Tea-Party Favorite”: This front page article appears today in The Wall Street Journal.

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

Posted at 10:40 PM by Howard Bashman



Friday, April 18, 2014

“Scalia criticizes historic Supreme Court ruling on freedom of the press”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Posted at 9:04 PM by Howard Bashman