“NY State blesses ‘incest’ marriage between uncle, niece”: The New York Post has an article that begins, “The state’s highest court has toppled a cultural taboo — legalizing a degree of incest, at least between an uncle and niece — in a unanimous ruling.”
You can access Tuesday’s ruling of the Court of Appeals of New York — that state’s highest court — on certified question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.
“Free Expression, In-Group Bias, and the Court’s Conservatives: A Critique of the Epstein-Parker-Segal Study.” Law professor Todd E. Pettys has posted this article online at SSRN (via “Legal Theory Blog“).
“How the Supreme Court Should Resolve Zivotofsky”: Jack Goldsmith has this post today at the “Lawfare” blog.
And today at “Just Security,” Marty Lederman has a post titled “The Article I argument in Zivotofsky.”
“Appeals Court Revives Junk Fax Class Action Against Pompano Dentist”: Daily Business Review has this report on the ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.
You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.
“Challenges to the Affordable Care Act: Panelists talked about court cases challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s interpretation of the Affordable Care Act.” C-SPAN has posted online at this link the video of an event that the Cato Institute hosted today.
“Artists Win Circuit Rehearing of Calif Royalty Law”: Pamela A. MacLean has this post at her “Trial Insider” blog about an order granting rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.
“Court: Strippers were club employees, could be owed millions.” The Las Vegas Sun has this news update.
And The Associated Press reports that “Nevada court says Strip club dancers are employees.”
You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Nevada at this link.
“U.S. lawsuit vs Hartford police who fatally shot dog is revived”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.
And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Illegal police search led to dog death.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.
In recent installments of Dahlia Lithwick’s “Amicus” podcasts on Slate: Episode two was titled “Let’s Salsa With Sotomayor: Dahlia Lithwick on the Supreme Court’s second week and a new biography of the court’s first Latina justice.”
And episode three was titled “Revenge of the Octogenarians: Dahlia Lithwick talks with Jeffrey Toobin about Obama’s judicial legacy, and how Ruth Bader Ginsberg may want Dahlia’s job.”
“Why Whirlpool’s win in moldy washer trial vindicates consumer class actions”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.
“Disagree in Good Faith? Sonia Sotomayor pushes other Supreme Court justices past their comfort zones.” John Paul Rollert has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Supreme Court set to hear momentous whistleblower case”: Jeremy P. Jacobs of Greenwire has this report.
“Justices consider Texas rape-murder case”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.
“Whirlpool wins first trial over ‘moldy’ washers”: Reuters has this report.
“State high court to take up issue of police personnel files”: Bob Egelko has this article in today’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle.
“PA Supreme Court vacancies to be filled by Tom Corbett or Tom Wolf”: Steve Esack has this article in today’s edition of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
In today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Karen Langley has an article headlined “McCaffery’s resignation from Pennsylvania Supreme Court reduces risk to his pension.”
And in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, law professor Bruce Ledewitz has an op-ed titled “Deal leaves court issues unresolved.”
“Supreme Court to decide if boy can list ‘Israel’ as passport birthplace”: Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.
“Constitution Check: Do the federal courts lack the authority to rule on same-sex marriage?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.
“The Revenge Of Mitch McConnell: GOP Senate Will Halt Obama Nominations.” Sahil Kapur of TPM DC has this report today.
“Obamacare Faces New Threat as Supreme Court Weighs Appeal”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.
In news coverage of the oral argument I participated in yesterday: P.J. D’Annunzio of The Legal Intelligencer reports that “Federal Preemption Debated in Topamax Cases.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.
And Matt Fair of Law360.com reports that “Pa. Superior Court Urged To Nix $15M In Topamax Verdicts” (subscription required for full access).
You can access the Briefs for Plaintiffs/Appellees that I filed on my clients’ behalf in these two related appeals here and here.