“Thrown Out of Court: How corporations became people you can’t sue.” Lina Khan has this article in the June/July/August 2014 issue of Washington Monthly magazine.
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Thursday, June 12, 2014
“Thrown Out of Court: How corporations became people you can’t sue.” Lina Khan has this article in the June/July/August 2014 issue of Washington Monthly magazine. Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman“High court: Property owners not liable in fatal car vs. horse crash.” The Petoskey (Mich.) News-Review has this report. And The Associated Press reports that “Michigan Supreme Court says owners of Emmet County farm not liable in fatal horse-car crash.” You can access Tuesday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Michigan at this link. Posted at 1:07 PM by Howard Bashman“Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions”: Jeff John Roberts has this post today at Gigaom. Posted at 12:58 PM by Howard BashmanAccess online today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court today issued rulings in two argued cases. 1. Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Clark v. Rameker, No. 13-299. You can access the oral argument via this link. 2. And Justice Anthony M. Kennedy delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court (with Justice Stephen G. Breyer not participating) in POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co., No. 12-761. You can access the oral argument via this link. In early news coverage, The Associated Press has reports headlined “Court: Inherited IRAs not protected in bankruptcy” and “Court rules for Pom Wonderful in dispute with Coke.” Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Coca-Cola Must Face Pomegranate Drink Suit, Court Says.” And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. rules for POM against Coke in labeling dispute.” Posted at 12:02 PM by Howard Bashman“Confirmation hearings for NJ Supreme Court nominees Rabner, Solomon set for next week”: Salvador Rizzo of The Newark Star-Ledger has this report. And The Record of Hacensack, New Jersey reports that “Confirmation hearings set for Christie’s N.J. Supreme Court nominees.” Posted at 9:04 AM by Howard Bashman“Oklahoma Supreme Court terminates contract for construction of super website; Oklahoma will try to complete delayed system on its own”: The Oklahoman has an article that begins, “In a move that upset legislators, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has canceled an $11 million contract with the company that was creating a super website of court information.” Posted at 9:00 AM by Howard Bashman“Six Supreme Court Decisions to Watch for This Month”: Newsweek has this report. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to issue additional rulings in argued cases today at 10 a.m. eastern time. Posted at 8:20 AM by Howard Bashman“Rappers v. Scotus: Who uses a bigger vocabulary, Jay Z or Scalia?” Adam Chilton, Kevin Jiang, and Eric Posner have this essay online at Slate. Posted at 8:17 AM by Howard Bashman“Undecided”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times. Posted at 8:07 AM by Howard BashmanWednesday, June 11, 2014
“Supreme Court meets to discuss Argentina debt case”: The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 10:48 PM by Howard Bashman“Alone on His Own Ice Floe: How Antonin Scalia ceased to be a powerhouse jurist and became a crank.” In the June/July/August 2014 issue of Washington Monthly magazine, Michael O’Donnell has this review of Bruce Allen Murphy‘s new book, “Scalia: A Court of One.” And yesterday in The Boston Globe, Glenn C. Altschuler had this review of that book. Posted at 10:24 PM by Howard Bashman“Court rejects appeal of man who piggybacked on wi-fi signal to access child porn”: Rich Lord of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has this news update. And The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a news update headlined “Appeals court says no search warrant needed to trace Internet signal theft.” You can access today’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link. Posted at 6:02 PM by Howard Bashman“‘Where Do You Think That Rage Came From?’ To get parole, people sentenced to life as juveniles must reckon with their pasts.” Beth Schwartzapfel has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. Posted at 5:47 PM by Howard Bashman“Embattled Nominee Michael Boggs Held Up As Other Judicial Candidates Moving Forward”: Jennifer Bendery of The Huffington Post has this report today. Posted at 5:44 PM by Howard Bashman“Rajat Gupta Loses Bid to Remain Free on Bail”: Brent Kendall has this post at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.” Posted at 5:34 PM by Howard Bashman“Court: Warrantless cell tracking unconstitutional.” The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today. The decision was written by visiting Senior D.C. Circuit Judge David B. Sentelle, on behalf of a unanimous three-judge Eleventh Circuit panel. Update: In other coverage, David Kravets of Ars Technica has an article headlined “Get a warrant for cell phone location tracking, US appeals court says; Decision makes the surveillance issue ripe for Supreme Court intervention.” Reuters reports that “Appeals court limits police use of cell phone location data.” At Gigaom, Jeff John Roberts has a post titled “In major privacy ruling, court says police need warrant to track phone users’ location.” And at the “Just Security” blog, Jennifer Granick has a post titled “Eleventh Circuit Says No to Warrantless Cell Tracking, Calls Other Metadata Programs Into Question.” Posted at 5:32 PM by Howard Bashman“No decision yet on hearing process for traffic cameras”: Jim Provance of The Toledo Blade has this news update. The Public Information Office of the Supreme Court of Ohio issued a preview of today’s oral argument titled “Does Appeals Process for Photo-Enforced Red-Light or Speeding Violations Strip Courts of Jurisdiction?” Posted at 1:50 PM by Howard BashmanSixth Circuit rejects argument that the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that Catholic Church-related non-profits “self certify” their religious objections to the provision of contraceptive services imposes a “substantial burden” under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: You can access today’s unanimous ruling of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Mich. Catholic Conf. v. Burwell at this link. Posted at 1:32 PM by Howard Bashman“The Argentine bond saga, made simple”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.” Posted at 10:00 AM by Howard Bashman“B.C. lawyers vote overwhelmingly against Trinity Western’s law school amid claims of gay discrimination”: The Vancouver Sun has an article that begins, “Provincial lawyers soundly rebuked the governors of the Law Society of B.C. Tuesday and overwhelmingly voted to rescind approval of a law school for Trinity Western University because of its controversial Community Covenant.” Posted at 7:58 AM by Howard Bashman“Forensic Science Isn’t Science: Why juries hear — and trust — so much biased, unreliable, inaccurate evidence.” Mark Joseph Stern has this essay online at Slate. Posted at 7:45 AM by Howard BashmanTuesday, June 10, 2014
“State Supreme Court to hear Yelp case on consumer reviews”: The Washington Times has an article that begins, “The Virginia Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by the popular website Yelp, which was ordered earlier this year to turn over the names of seven reviewers who anonymously criticized a prominent local carpet-cleaning business.” Posted at 11:38 PM by Howard Bashman“Rajat Gupta Seeks to Avoid Prison With Supreme Court Plea”: Bob Van Voris and Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News have this report. Posted at 11:33 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court to weigh next steps in Argentina bonds case”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report. Posted at 11:30 PM by Howard Bashman“Citing Supreme Court win, Obama admin urges dismissal of Camp Lejeune cases”: Jeremy P. Jacobs of Greenwire has this report. Posted at 3:54 PM by Howard Bashman“It is more than a little surprising to encounter an argument by a prison system that an inmate may be penalized for obeying an order by the prison’s staff.” So writes Circuit Judge Frank H. Easterbrook in an interesting opinion that he issued today on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Posted at 1:24 PM by Howard Bashman“Hathitrust Library’s Fair-Use Win Survives Appeal”: Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today. Update: In other coverage, Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court rules against authors in book-scanning lawsuit.” And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Searchable books database is ‘fair use.’” Posted at 1:11 PM by Howard Bashman“U.S. law firms flock to gay-marriage proponents, shun other side”: Joan Biskupic of Reuters has this report. Posted at 9:14 AM by Howard Bashman“Court sends immigrants’ adult children to back of the line”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report. And David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court deals setback to young relatives of legal immigrants” and “Supreme Court leaves California in charge of disabled inmates.” Posted at 9:12 AM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Electronics Plant in Poisoned Water Case”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times. Posted at 9:10 AM by Howard Bashman“U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear case of Pa. juveniles serving life”: Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains this front page article. And in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Paula Reed Ward has an article headlined “Justices decline to hear Pa. case on mandatory life for juveniles.” Posted at 9:06 AM by Howard Bashman“District judge fines man $50 for wearing low pants in court; He’s ‘old enough to understand,’ District Judge Wayne Maura says”: This front page article appears today in The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Posted at 9:02 AM by Howard BashmanMonday, June 9, 2014
“Bonus payout for WTC site workers premature: court.” Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today. Posted at 11:18 PM by Howard BashmanMind your apostrophes: As two errata sheets that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued recently (here and here) make clear, the typo that an earlier post recently noted was merely the tip of the apostrophe iceberg. Posted at 11:14 PM by Howard Bashman“In Philadelphia, Judges Warn of Social Media Attempts To Sway Rulings”: CBS Philly has this report. You can view the video of today’s National Constitution Center event via this link. Posted at 9:10 PM by Howard Bashman |
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