“Quick Change Justice: While you were sleeping, Hobby Lobby just got so much worse.” Dahlia Lithwick and Sonja West have this jurisprudence essay online today at Slate.
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Friday, July 4, 2014
“Quick Change Justice: While you were sleeping, Hobby Lobby just got so much worse.” Dahlia Lithwick and Sonja West have this jurisprudence essay online today at Slate. Posted at 9:52 PM by Howard Bashman“Christian School’s Relief on Contraception Coverage Could Embolden Others; Supreme Court Temporary Order Gives Wheaton College a Way Around Compromise Offered by Obama Administration”: Jess Bravin will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google. Posted at 8:00 PM by Howard Bashman“Google Starts Erasing Links for Searches in Europe”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an article that begins, “In May, a European court told Google it must assist people in cleaning up their online reputations by ruling that there is a ‘right to be forgotten.'” Posted at 7:58 PM by Howard Bashman“Hobby Lobby 2.0: Don’t blame Justice Ginsburg.” Steven Mazie has this blog post online at The Economist. Posted at 7:42 PM by Howard Bashman“Signs That the Supreme Court May Push Back Against the NSA: A recent ruling in a case on cell-phone searches may point to future limitations on surveillance.” Conor Friedersdorf has this essay online at The Atlantic. Posted at 11:50 AM by Howard Bashman“The Supreme Court’s Fish Tale: A federal case involving a commercial fisherman who discarded some groupers could broaden Sarbanes-Oxley’s scope to a burdensome degree.” Jim McTague has this essay online today at Barron’s. You can freely access the full text of the essay via Google. Posted at 11:48 AM by Howard Bashman“Book review: ‘On Democracy’s Doorstop,’ by J. Douglas Smith.” In Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post, David Garrow will have this review of J. Douglas Smith‘s new book, “On Democracy’s Doorstep: The Inside Story of How the Supreme Court Brought ‘One Person, One Vote’ to the United States.” Posted at 10:54 AM by Howard BashmanThursday, July 3, 2014
“The New Law of Religion: Hobby Lobby rewrites religious-freedom law in ways that ignore everything that came before.” Law professors Micah Schwartzman, Richard Schragger, and Nelson Tebbe have this jurisprudence essay online today at Slate. Posted at 8:46 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court 101: Top takeaways from big rulings of the term.” Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has this report today. Posted at 8:00 PM by Howard Bashman“High court grants Wheaton College plea”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A divided Supreme Court has agreed to allow an evangelical college in Illinois that objects to paying for contraceptives in its health plan to avoid filling out a government document that the college says would violate its religious beliefs.” Update: You can view today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, and the dissent therefrom, at this link (via Rick Hasen). Adam Liptak of The New York Times has a news update headlined “Supreme Court Order Suspends Contraception Rule for Christian College.” Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Supreme Court sides with Christian college in birth control case.” David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Supreme Court OKs another religious birth control exemption.” Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has a news update headlined “High Court Female Justices Dissent From Wheaton Contraception Order; Justices Sotomayor, Ginsburg and Kagan File 17-Page Dissent to Majority’s Order.” Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has a report headlined “College wins U.S. top court temporary exemption on Obamacare birth control.” Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Religious College Shielded by Court on Birth Control Form.” At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Marcia Coyle has a post titled “Justices Grant Religious College an Injunction Over Contraception.” And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Broader right to object to birth control.” Posted at 5:08 PM by Howard Bashman“Aspen Ideas Festival panel reviews recent Supreme Court decisions; In many cases, Supreme Court sharply divided”: The Aspen Daily News has this report. Online via YouTube, you can access video from the event. Posted at 1:42 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby Ruling Yields Polarized Debate”: This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.” Posted at 1:24 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court reveals its class bias”: Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 1:20 PM by Howard Bashman“As Supreme Court Term Ends, Journalist Examines Its Decisions”: Yesterday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Fresh Air” included this audio segment featuring Adam Liptak of The New York Times. Posted at 1:16 PM by Howard Bashman“The Supreme Court: A year of drama and dissent; The Roberts court quietly paves the way for big changes.” This article appears in the July 5, 2014 print edition of The Economist. Posted at 1:12 PM by Howard Bashman“Cooley Law School loses 6th Circuit defamation appeal”: Debra Cassens Weiss has this post at the ABA Journal’s “Law News Now” blog reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued yesterday. Posted at 11:18 AM by Howard Bashman“Rightward Bound: ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia.'” In this upcoming Sunday’s Sunday Book Review section of The New York Times, Jeff Shesol will have this essay reviewing “Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution,” by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz, and “Scalia: A Court of One,” by Bruce Allen Murphy. Posted at 11:11 AM by Howard Bashman“Beshear defends birthrate argument against gay marriage”: This front page article appears in today’s edition of The Louisville Courier-Journal. Posted at 11:06 AM by Howard Bashman“When The Taliban Meets Hobby Lobby”: Steve Coll has this blog post online at The New Yorker. At his “Jost On Justice” blog, Kenneth Jost has a post titled “Ginsburg’s Misfire in Birth Control Case Dissent.” And in related news coverage, Kaiser Health News has a report headlined “Did The Supreme Court Tip Its Hand On Contraception Cases Yet To Come?” Posted at 11:04 AM by Howard BashmanWednesday, July 2, 2014
“As term ends, Supreme Court finds some agreement, but sharp divides remain”: Yesterday’s broadcast of PBS NewsHour contained this video segment. Posted at 10:46 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court will hear Gilbert church-sign case”: This article appears in today’s edition of The Arizona Republic. And Cronkite News reports that “Supreme Court will hear church’s challenge to Gilbert’s sign ordinance.” Posted at 10:42 PM by Howard Bashman“Unanimous Supreme Court comes at a cost”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 10:40 PM by Howard Bashman“Gay marriage groups pop the question to SCOTUS”: Edward-Isaac Dovere of Politico.com has this report. And Timothy M. Phelps and David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times have an article headlined “Gay rights groups wary of Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling.” Posted at 10:38 PM by Howard Bashman“U.S. ‘drone memo’ offers legal ammunition in Omar Khadr case: If CIA drone pilots cannot be charged with war crimes, how could Pentagon convict former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr?” The Toronto Star has this report. And The Canadian Press has a report headlined “Secret U.S. memo suggests no legal basis to charge Omar Khadr with war crimes ” Posted at 9:42 PM by Howard Bashman“The high court highlights the problem of the middleman”: Charles Lane has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 9:30 PM by Howard Bashman“After Hobby Lobby Comes Judge Pryor: An Eleventh Circuit judge, citing Hobby Lobby, rules in favor of a Catholic TV network.” Quin Hillyer has this essay today at National Review Online. Posted at 9:12 PM by Howard Bashman“Hobby Lobby Is Only the Beginning”: Law professor Paul Horwitz has this op-ed in today’s edition of The New York Times. Posted at 9:02 PM by Howard Bashman“The Solicitor General’s report card”: Andrew Pincus has this guest post today at “SCOTUSblog.” Posted at 9:00 PM by Howard Bashman“Coakley, Patrick press for new abortion clinic protections”: The Boston Globe has this news update. And The Associated Press reports that “Massachusetts working on abortion clinic bill.” Posted at 4:55 PM by Howard Bashman“Judge Posner backs down (for now) in antitrust policy duel with U.S.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this interesting report today. Posted at 4:44 PM by Howard Bashman“Groups want emails from reprimanded Montana judge”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A group of American Indians wants a court to preserve and eventually release an investigative file containing inappropriate emails sent by a federal judge, including a racist message involving President Barack Obama.” Posted at 3:14 PM by Howard Bashman“U.S.: Don’t expand Hobby Lobby exemption.” Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.” Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Gov’t: Ruling backs nonprofits’ birth control plan.” And Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has a news update headlined “Administration Points to Hobby Lobby Ruling in Wheaton College Case; Government Uses Supreme Court’s Ruling to Back Its Birth-Control Alternative for Religious Nonprofits.” Posted at 2:05 PM by Howard Bashman“Obama’s Disappointing Year at the Supreme Court: From recess appointments to warrantless cellphone searches to Obamacare, the White House lost big this term at SCOTUS.” Damon Root has this essay online at Reason. Posted at 2:03 PM by Howard Bashman“‘With All Deliberate Speed’: Rasul V. Bush, Ten Year Later.” Law professor David Cole has this blog post online today at The New Yorker. Posted at 1:33 PM by Howard Bashman“Big Campaign Finance News: Second Circuit Accepts Limits on Contributions to Independent Campaign Committees in Some Circumstances, Creating Circuit Split.” Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog” reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today. Posted at 1:02 PM by Howard Bashman |
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