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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015

Programming note: Additional posts will appear here on Tuesday night. During the day Tuesday, I will be driving back from Atlanta, Georgia to my home in the Philadelphia suburbs.

While I’m on the road tomorrow, a stop for lunch is planned in Greensboro, North Carolina and for dinner in Baltimore, Maryland.

At 9:30 a.m. eastern time on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue an Order List. You can access the Order List via this link shortly after it issues. And coverage will be appear sometime thereafter at “SCOTUSblog.”

Finally, as is frequently the case, additional appellate-related posts may appear at this blog’s Twitter feed while I am away from the computer.

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“Behind one Supreme Court case, the tale of forgiveness for sister’s killer; The Supreme Court will hear a case regarding the 2,500 inmates in the US serving life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed as juveniles; Jeanne Bishop lost her sister to one of them”: Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has this report.

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“Don’t Trump the Supreme Court: A President Donald’s picks for the high court would be anything but conservative.” Carrie Severino has this essay online at USA Today.

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“Judges will consider whether to allow immigrants to pay in-state tuition; Students with DACA status can attend college but pay more than Georgia residents”: The Times of Gainesville, Georgia contains this front page article today.

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“Diverse opinions are the cornerstone of a judiciary”: Columnist Konrad Yakabuski has this essay online at The Toronto Globe and Mail.

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“A Constitutional Right to Hovercraft? The U.S. Supreme Court considers an odd case from Alaska, with the fraught question of federal management of Western lands hovering in the background.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

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“A.C.L.U.’s Own Arguments May Work Against It in Voting Rights Case”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 9:50 AM by Howard Bashman



Sunday, October 11, 2015

“Emails from Gov. Fallin’s office show state agencies’ struggle to respond to scrutiny over execution”: Samantha Vicent and Barbara Hoberock have this front page article in today’s edition of The Tulsa World.

And Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has an article headlined “The Supreme Court Let A Man Die; He Was Executed With The Wrong Drug; The court placed far too much faith in Oklahoma’s disastrous lethal injection protocol in January and in June.”

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“Ten Commandments decision likely to remain a monumental issue; Political groups and leaders seek donations and changes in the state constitution”: This front page article appears in today’s edition of The Tulsa World.

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“Gerald Boyle takes on another high-profile case — his own”: Bruce Vielmetti of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

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“Donald Trump says his older sister isn’t interested in becoming a Supreme Court judge”: The Washington Post has this report.

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“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: The Frank Easterbrook Edition.” Aaron Nielson had this post yesterday at the blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

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“High court to hear whether juvenile killers should get another chance at freedom”: Riley Yates of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has an article that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could decide whether hundreds of Pennsylvania prisoners serving life in prison for murders they committed as youths deserve the chance to one day be released.”

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“Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s office says it has never withheld Supreme Court emails”: In today’s edition of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Charles Thompson has an article that begins, “Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s office said Saturday that it has never withheld any emails to or from Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices from internal court or state Judicial Conduct Board reviews.”

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“Was Schuette’s $2-million lesson a bargain?” Columnist Brian Dickerson of The Detroit Free Press has an essay that begins, “Bill Schuette went to the U.S. Supreme Court, and all Michigan taxpayers got was a bill for $2 million.”

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“With court order, federal judge seeks to fuel debate about data encryption”: Ellen Nakashima of The Washington Post has this report.

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“The Machinery of Death: The Supreme Court is taking up capital punishment in a big way this term, against a backdrop of continuing foul-ups with lethal injections by states.” You can access at this link the audio of the newest installment of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick.

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“OTM digs into the Supreme Court, an institution as secretive as it is powerful — and how we understand it through the media.” That’s the subject of this week’s hour-long broadcast of WNYC Radio’s “On the Media.” You can access the audio via this link.

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“The White-Supremacist Lineage of a Yale College: The elite university still honors the South Carolina senator best known for praising the morality of slavery.” Lincoln Caplan has this essay online at The Atlantic.

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Saturday, October 10, 2015

“U.S. Appeals Court Blocks EPA Water Rule Nationwide; Rule seeks to expand federal protection of water and wetlands”: Brent Kendall and Amy Harder of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Ben Wolfgang and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times have an article headlined “Another setback for Obama: Court halts EPA’s controversial water rule.”

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that “Court stays controversial EPA water regulation.”

Reuters reports that “U.S. court places hold on clean water rule nationwide.”

The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court puts hold on regulation protecting waterways.”

And The Texas Tribune reports that “To Paxton’s Cheers, Court Blocks EPA Clean Water Rule.”

You can access yesterday’s order of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 11:28 AM by Howard Bashman