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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

“N.S.A. Phone Data Collection Could Go On, Even if a Law Expires”: Charlie Savage will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Some thoughts on Johnson v. City of Shelby: Does it help make sense of Twombly & Iqbal?” Adam Steinman had this post Monday at the “Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog.”

Update: On November 10th, Barry Barnett had a related post at his “Blawgletter” blog titled “Twombly’s Remorse?

Posted at 6:21 PM by Howard Bashman



“Women’s Equality: Not a Radical Idea.” Monday at the blog “Hamilton and Griffin on Rights,” Leslie C. Griffin had a post that begins, “When President Obama first nominated Georgetown Law Professor Cornelia ‘Nina’ Pillard to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Republicans strenuously opposed her nomination.”

Posted at 6:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“Chief Judge Alex Kozinski at NACDL; Chief Judge Alex Kozinski discussing fair evidence disclosure in criminal cases”: C-SPAN has posted this video online today (via “Above the Law“).

Posted at 5:42 PM by Howard Bashman



A blog post about blog posts: Readers, I feel your pain. For many of you, this blog has been loading more slowly. At times, refreshing this blog may tie up your browser with an unresponsive script; yes, I have experienced that too, maybe even more often than you have.

Here is the game plan: first, I have reduced the size of this blog’s home page from 10 days of posts to five days of posts, thereby cutting in half the amount of text that must load when you hit refresh; second, if you receive an error message while trying to access this blog, please email it to me and I will have the tech people behind this blog’s operation (yes, they exist!) seek to eliminate it; and third, sometime early in 2015 this blog will move to a new publishing platform that may result in faster access.

Of course, this blog’s complete monthly archives can always be accessed via this link.

Posted at 5:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“The End of Immunity? Why Foreign Consular Employees Should be Worried.” Online at Foreign Affairs, Rebecca M. Aragon and Jean M. Flannery have an article that begins, “In June of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, despite the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), investigators could conduct post-judgment discovery into the Republic of Argentina’s assets outside the United States.”

Posted at 3:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gallery: A look inside the 2014 Ames Moot Court Competition.” Harvard Law Today has posted this photo gallery from yesterday’s final round of the competition.

Posted at 2:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Remembering Alice Lee: Alabama Supreme Court justice, former Circuit Court judge share thoughts on a ‘dynamo.'” AL.com has this report.

Posted at 1:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Won’t Be Getting Another Sotomayor Anytime Soon”: Harry Enten has this post today at FiveThirtyEight.

Posted at 1:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“When judges say too much”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight had this report yesterday.

Posted at 11:44 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court: Selective empathy.” Steven Mazie has this post today at the “Democracy in America” blog of The Economist.

Posted at 11:42 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Life and Death Stakes of Supreme Court Informal Practices”: Michael Dorf had this post this past March at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

Update: I have corrected my reference to the date of this post.

Posted at 9:33 AM by Howard Bashman



“Kane says porn e-mails contained images of children”: In today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Angela Couloumbis and Craig R. McCoy have an article that begins, “Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane made a new accusation Tuesday in the pornographic e-mail scandal, saying the sexually explicit messages exchanged by state officials and employees sometimes contained images involving children.”

And The Associated Press has an article headlined “Pennsylvania attorney general: Porn email had kids.”

Posted at 7:33 AM by Howard Bashman



Tuesday, November 18, 2014

“Lawyer who defended ex-Judge Thomas Porteous hired for Obama lawsuit, WSJ reports”: Andy Grimm of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

Posted at 10:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Court bars state from curbing sex offenders’ Internet privacy”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this news update.

Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “9th Circuit says sex offender Internet rules violate free speech.”

And at her “Trial Insider” blog, Pamela A. MacLean has a post titled “Sex Offender Free Speech Ruling Upheld.”

My earlier coverage of today’s Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

Posted at 10:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Srinivasan Tells Del. Audience of U.S. Supreme Court Experiences”: Jeff Mordock will have this article in tomorrow’s edition of Delaware Law Weekly.

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

Posted at 9:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gilbert religious sign fight headed for Supreme Court”: Howard Fischer of The Arizona Capitol Times has this report today.

Posted at 9:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“Inverted equal protection: same-sex marriage at the Sixth Circuit (Part II, rational-basis review).” Dale Carpenter has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 9:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“There Is No ‘Glitch’ in Obamacare: Liberals need to stop recycling a dangerous piece of conservative spin.” Simon Lazarus has this essay online today at The New Republic.

Posted at 9:02 PM by Howard Bashman