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Monday, March 2, 2015

“Court to consider preservation of judge’s racist emails”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Civil rights attorneys and lawyers for the judiciary are due in federal court Tuesday for arguments over whether hundreds of racist emails from Montana’s former Chief U.S. District Judge should be preserved as potential evidence in future lawsuits.”

Posted at 11:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“An immigrant student invited a Supreme Court justice to dinner. She took him up on it.” Emily Heil has this post today at the “Reliable Source” blog of The Washington Post.

Posted at 10:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Lawyer Put Health Act in Peril by Pointing Out 4 Little Words”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 9:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. Supreme Court hears Cleveland case on teachers’ child abuse reporting duties”: The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report.

Sam Hananel of The Associated Press reports that “High court weighs limits on child abuse evidence.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument analysis: It was all about a child at risk.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Ohio v. Clark, No. 13-1352.

Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Attica Guards Resign in Deal To Avoid Jail”: The New York Times has this news update. Earlier, Tom Robbins had a lengthy article on the front page of yesterday’s edition of The New York Times and online at The Marshall Project headlined “A Brutal Beating Wakes Attica’s Ghosts; A Prison, Infamous for Bloodshed, Faces a Reckoning as Guards Go on Trial.”

The Buffalo News has an article headlined “Tears of gratitude by ex-inmate after plea deal in beating; 3 ex-Attica guards barred from prisons.”

And The Associated Press reports that “3 Attica guards plead guilty as assault trial about to begin.”

Posted at 9:34 PM by Howard Bashman



Today’s daytime blogging lull was brought to you by: Two appellate court filings that I had due today.

One was an answer in opposition to an application for reargument that the opposing party filed in an appeal in which my client recently prevailed.

And the other was a petition for allowance of appeal filed in the Pa. Supreme Court in a case that I started working on after the Pa. Superior Court overturned a trial court’s judgment entered on a jury’s verdict in my client’s favor. A copy of the Pa. Superior Court’s decision is attached as the first exhibit to the petition.

Posted at 6:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“King v. Burwell Pre-Mortem: The Spending Clause Question.” Michael Dorf has this post today at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

Posted at 6:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Activist litigation and statutory text: We’ve seen this one before.” Jonathan H. Adler had this post yesterday at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 5:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Standing the Test in Health Care Challenge”: Kenneth Jost had this post yesterday at his blog, “Jost On Justice.”

Posted at 5:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Fix the Court airs TV ad ahead of Obamacare hearing”: Fix the Court issued this news release today, which provides access to the video of the organization’s new television spot.

Posted at 4:56 PM by Howard Bashman