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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

“America Hates Terrorists — But we don’t execute them: A short history.” Eli Hager has this article online at The Marshall Project.

Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“If you think you don’t belong, you’re wrong. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday geared the lesson at Latino students and others in a crowd of 6,000 at the University of Utah.” So begins an article available online from The Salt Lake Tribune.

Posted at 5:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Holt v. Hobbs: Does a Muslim Prisoner’s Case Foreshadow the End of Affirmative Action?” Dawinder Sidhu has this post today at the “Religion & Politics” blog of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics of Washington University in St. Louis.

Posted at 5:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Pennsylvania Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Commission Releases 2015 Judicial Ratings”: You can view both the ratings and the appellate court candidates’ completed questionnaires via this link.

Posted at 3:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court case on key Obamacare provision takes up this senator’s account”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 3:11 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Can’t Be Trusted With This Man’s Life; In 2002, a prosecutor defended the death sentence for a murderer; Now he’s a federal judge and refuses to recuse himself in the same case”: Andrew Cohen has this essay online today at The Daily Beast about Tenth Circuit Judge Jerome A. Holmes.

Posted at 3:07 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals Court Rules News Orgs Don’t Have to Remove Stories When Criminal Records Are Expunged; A woman sued media organizations for libel, but there’s no ‘right to be forgotten’ in the United States”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “Hollywood, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Eugene Volokh has a post titled “Statute allowing ‘erasure’ of arrest records doesn’t require newspapers to erase news stories.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

Posted at 1:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Case Western Reserve University continues effort to revoke a doctor’s degree in federal appeals court”: Karen Farkas had this article in June 2014 in The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The university has prevailed in a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today. Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton delivered the opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel.

Earlier in June 2014, The Plain Dealer published an article headlined “CWRU blocks graduation from med school over ‘professionalism’ issues; judge orders degree be awarded” reporting on the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio granting a permanent injunction.

In other coverage of the district court’s ruling, The Observer — the student newspaper of Case Western Reserve University — published an article headlined “Court rules against CWRU in medical student case.”

And at the “Minding the Campus” blog, KC Johnson had a post titled “Can Colleges Punish Students for Off-Campus, Non-Criminal Behavior?

Posted at 1:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“Wolf to fill Supreme Court vacancies, urges passage of non-discrimination bill”: The “Commonwealth Confidential” blog of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this post today.

Posted at 11:05 AM by Howard Bashman



“Ballot Talks: The state of Pennsylvania’s judiciary.” You can access the audio of last Wednesday’s broadcast of WHYY-FM’s “Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane” at this link.

Posted at 11:02 AM by Howard Bashman



“Jurors’ names ruled public record, SJC says; Top state court says ID’s must be included in criminal case files”: This article appears in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

The Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts has an article headlined “SJC ruling: Names of jurors must be made public in Massachusetts criminal trials.”

And The MetroWest Daily News reports that “Middlesex judge incorrectly withheld juror names in Wayland murder.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at this link.

Posted at 10:25 AM by Howard Bashman



“Hamm Ex-Wife Says Cashing Alimony Check Doesn’t End Appeal”: Margaret Cronin Fisk of Bloomberg News has an article that begins, “The ex-wife of Continental Resources Inc.’s Harold Hamm told Oklahoma’s highest court that her divorce appeal shouldn’t be blocked because she cashed an almost $1 billion alimony check.”

Posted at 8:25 AM by Howard Bashman



“A False History: The Rewriting of the Affordable Care Act by the Challengers in King v. Burwell.” Eric Segall has this post today at “Dorf on Law.”

Posted at 8:04 AM by Howard Bashman