“Montana Celebrates Browning Legacy”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit posted this news release online earlier this week.
Information on past installments of the Browning Distinguished Lectures in Law can be accessed via this link.
“50 years of privacy since Griswold: Gertner, Suk and Tribe discuss landmark case.” Harvard Law Today posted this article online last week.
“Complicit as Sin: How gay marriage opponents transformed themselves from a religious majority to a religious minority.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“5 running for Pa.’s top court agree: Judicial races cost too much.” This article appears in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Support Gay Teens, Not Bad Laws”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.
“Roberts at 10: John Roberts and LGBT Rights — The Jury is Still Out.” Today, the Constitutional Accountability Center posted online this report written by Judith E. Schaeffer.
“11th Circuit to hear class cert challenge from moldy washer defendant”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.
“Spring 2015 Friends Lecture Luncheon — An Afternoon with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor”: The New York Public Library hosted this event today, and you can view the video of the event via this link.
“Tsarnaev’s lawyer faces perhaps her biggest challenge yet”: The Associated Press has this report.
“The Coming Gay-Marriage Ruling”: Richard Socarides had this post online yesterday at The New Yorker.
“South Carolina to SCOTUS: We Can Discriminate Against Women, So Why Not Gays?” Mark Joseph Stern has this essay online at Slate.
“Marriage Rights Won’t Save Gays From Being Fired in Most States; As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on same-sex marriage, a cloud hovers in more than half the states”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.
Seventh Circuit affirms entry of summary judgment for defendants in In re Text Messaging Antitrust Litigation: Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote today’s ruling on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
“Obama To SCOTUS: Erasing Obamacare Subsidies Would Be ‘A Bad Decision.'” Sahil Kapur of TPM DC has this report.
“Supreme Court gives new life to death penalty debate”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.
“Senator Mike Lee: Our Lost Constitution.” U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) will be speaking this evening at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia about his new book. The Constitution Center will be live-streaming Senator Lee’s remarks online, and you can access the video of the program starting at 6:30 p.m. eastern time via this link.
“Constitution Check: Did the Supreme Court give corporations a religious soul?” Lyle Denniston had this post Tuesday at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.
“Judge Refuses to Let Obama’s Executive Actions on Immigration Proceed”: Michael D. Shear has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
And Sahil Kapur of TPM DC has an article headlined “Did A Federal Court Just Doom The GOP’s Big Immigration Lawsuit Against Obama?”
“Wal-Mart’s right to sell guns at risk in lawsuit; Church that owns 3,500 shares objected”: Kellan Howell of The Washington Times recently had this preview of an appeal argued yesterday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
And in coverage of yesterday’s oral argument, Saranac Hale Spencer of The Legal Intelligencer reports that “Quick Turnaround Expected for Third Circuit Wal-Mart Gun Case.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.
The Third Circuit has posted online at this link (28 MB mp3 audio file) the audio of yesterday’s oral argument. Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. argued the appeal for Wal-Mart.
“Was Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial necessary?” Former U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner has this op-ed online at The Boston Globe.
“The Man Who Will Argue For Marriage Recognition At The Supreme Court: Doug Hallward-Driemeier is one of two lawyers representing same-sex couples at the Supreme Court later this month.” Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report.
“Rules Committee to Recommend Putting Maryland Unreported Opinions Online, But Expanding Restrictions on Use of Other Unreported Decisions”: Michael Wein has this post at the “Maryland Appellate Blog.”