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Monday, May 4, 2015

“Supreme Court Accepts Case on Electricity Regulation”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Robert Barnes and Chris Mooney of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court to rule on breaks for cutting peak-demand energy use.”

Brent Kendall and Amy Harder of The Wall Street Journal report that “Supreme Court to Review FERC Energy-Saving Rule; High court will consider the case during its next term, which begins in October.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court to Review FERC Energy-Saving Rule.”

And Jeremy P. Jacobs of Greenwire reports that “Justices will review ruling that nixed FERC’s demand-response regs.”

Posted at 10:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘No Human Is Wise Enough to Decide Who Should Die’; The life and death of Robert Utter, former state Supreme Court justice and death penalty opponent”: Ken Armstrong has this essay online at The Marshall Project.

Posted at 11:02 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court race is a game of ‘Pick 3′”: Columnist John Baer has this essay in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.

Posted at 11:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“Freemansburg man convicted in federal Facebook threat case now charged in domestic assault”: Pamela Lehman and Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania recently had an article that begins, “While the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to rule on whether a Freemansburg man was wrongly imprisoned for threats of violence on Facebook, he has been arrested on charges he hit his girlfriend’s mother with a pot.”

And The Express-Times of Easton, Pennsylvania reports that “Freemansburg man whose threats case went to Supreme Court is jailed on assault charge.”

Posted at 10:12 AM by Howard Bashman



“Justices’ Opinions Grow in Size, Accessibility and Testiness, Study Finds”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 9:45 AM by Howard Bashman



Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court today granted review in two related cases and called for the views of the Solicitor General in one case.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “High court will hear appeal over energy rule“; “Court rejects challenge to NJ ban on gay conversion therapy“; and “High court won’t hear NY appeal over Miranda warnings.”

And Greg Stohr and Jonathan Crawford of Bloomberg News report that “FERC Gets U.S. High Court Hearing on Energy-Conservation Rule.”

Posted at 9:43 AM by Howard Bashman



“Madison bans discrimination against atheists, non-religious”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “While conservatives in Indiana and Arkansas were explaining last month why their new religious objections laws weren’t invitations to discriminate against gays, the leaders of Wisconsin’s capital city were busy protecting the rights of another group: atheists.”

Posted at 7:44 AM by Howard Bashman