At midnight, this blog is moving to its new online home: Following nearly eight and a half wonderful years during which this blog was hosted at the Law.com web site, effective Wednesday, October 1, 2014 “How Appealing” will be hosted by Breaking Media in affiliation with its highly successful “Above the Law” blog. This blog’s new address effective at midnight is http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com. Please adjust your bookmarks accordingly.
Also moving to the new address will be this blog’s entire archives, stretching back to May 6, 2002, and this blog’s “20 questions for the appellate judge” interview archives.
I wish all of my friends at ALM/Law.com all the best for the future, and I thank them for their kindness over the past many years. At the same time, I am very much looking forward to the future and this blog’s new location and affiliation with “Above the Law.”
My most sincere thanks of all, however, are reserved for this blog’s readers, because without you this blog would not continue to exist. Thank you for reading, and I hope you will visit often at this blog’s new address.
“After Decades of Action, Supreme Court Cools on School Cases”: Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report (registration required for full access). A graphic accompanying the article is already freely accessible.
“Full D.C. Circuit Weighs Contractors’ Political Contributions”: Zoe Tillman has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”
You can freely access the full text of the post via Google.
Update: In other coverage, Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “D.C. Circuit skeptical on contractor donation ban.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has posted the audio of today’s en banc oral argument online at this link (40.7 MB mp3 audio file).
“A few thoughts on Heien v. North Carolina“: Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” Heien is scheduled to be the first and only case argued at the U.S. Supreme Court on the first Monday in October.
Your lying eyes: Today’s edition of The Yale Daily News contains an article headlined “Video evidence not immune from bias.”
Last Saturday at Vox, German Lopez had a post titled “Video footage was supposed to offer jurors objective evidence; Sometimes, it doesn’t.”
And last Tuesday, New York University posted a news release titled “Video Blinds Us to the Evidence, NYU, Yale Study Finds.”
“Dow Chemical fails to overturn $1.06 billion price-fixing award”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.
My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Tenth Circuit ruling appears at this link.
Ninth Circuit rejects Commerce Clause challenge to Alameda County, California’s Safe Drug Disposal Ordinance: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.
Michael A. Carvin argued the appeal on behalf of the appellants, who were seeking to invalidate the ordinance.
“Divorce law out of sync with same-sex marriage”: The Associated Press has this report.
“Colorado Supreme Court considers whether workers can be fired for marijuana use”: John Ingold of The Denver Post has this news update providing access to video of this morning’s Supreme Court of Colorado oral argument in this case.
And The Associated Press reports that “Colorado high court considers pot firing case.”
Update: In other coverage, Reuters reports that “Colorado court hears appeal of worker fired for medical marijuana.”
“Prosecutors float possibility of jail time for former Justice Melvin”: Bobby Kerlik of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has this news update.
“Appeals court to state: Turn over IDs of executioners.” Brian Haas has this article in today’s edition of The Tennessean reporting on a ruling that the Court of Appeals of Tennessee issued yesterday.
“Ginsburg Faulted for Comment on Texas Abortion Law”: Tony Mauro has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”
You can freely access the full text of the post via Google News.
“How Serious Is the Supreme Court About Religious Freedom? A new case will test whether the justices’ defense of conscience in Hobby Lobby applies to minority religions like Muslims, or just to Christians.” Law professor Dawinder S. Sidhu has this essay online today at The Atlantic.
“Supreme Court’s next same-sex marriage move: Sooner or later?” Stephanie Condon of CBS News has this report today.
“An Obscure Senate Procedure May Have Just Reelected America’s Most Anti-Union Governor”: Ian Millhiser has this post at ThinkProgress (via “The Indiana Law Blog“).
“Panelists Brief Press on New Supreme Court Cases”: Georgetown Law has issued this news release. You can access the video of the two-hour event via this link.
Via C-SPAN, you can also access online SCOTUS Term previews that were hosted by Smithsonian Associates and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
“Karmeier pens 16-page order explaining why he won’t recuse in Price v. Philip Morris”: The Madison-St. Clair (Ill.) Record has this report.
“Constitution Check: Is there a right to vote before election day?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.
“Colorado high court considers pot firing case”: The Associated Press has this report.
“Killing the ‘Nuclear Option’ Will Not Save the Senate; It Will Ruin Obama’s Final Two Years”: Brian Beutler has this essay online at The New Republic.
“SCOTUS could inject same-sex marriage into races”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has an article that begins, “Same-sex marriage, which has barely generated a peep in most of this fall’s political races, could soon make an unexpected appearance on the campaign trail if the Supreme Court announces that it will rule on whether the Constitution guarantees gay marriage rights.”
Starting tomorrow: “How Appealing” will have a new online address.
Beginning on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, you will need to visit http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com to access new posts.
One final reminder will appear this evening in my final post at this blog’s current location. While the move is underway this evening, any appellate-related updates will appear only in this blog’s Twitter feed (@howappealing), which will also offer a link to this blog’s new online address beginning tomorrow.
