“Supreme Court takes up racial discrimination in jury selection”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.
In today’s edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bill Rankin has a front page article headlined “High court considers race discrimination in Georgia death case.”
Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Supreme Court case offers glimpse at role of race in jury selection; The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday on whether Georgia prosecutors threw out potential jurors because they were black; Research points to concerns that go far beyond the case.”
And Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post reports that “Racism Is Rampant In Jury Selection; The Supreme Court Can’t Fix It; The Constitution prohibits excluding jurors on the basis of race, but there isn’t much the justices can do to remedy that.”
“Election 2015: State Supreme Court key race in low-turnout year; Tuesday’s vote will fill spots in appeals and county courts, plus a hotly contested seat in state Senate.” Chris Potter has this article in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
And in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Melissa Daniels has an article headlined “Pennsylvania Supreme Court election will change course of history.”
“Will the Roberts court abolish capital punishment?” Lydia Wheeler of The Hill has this report.
“The Law of the Lands: How the U.S. Supreme Court Engages With the World.” Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner has this review of Justice Stephen Breyer’s new book, “The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities,” in the November/December 2015 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine.
“Supreme Court case pits privacy rights against Internet data brokers”: David G. Savage will have this article in Monday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.
Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial titled “Justices Should Let an Online Privacy Case Proceed.”
Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “Inventing Class Actions: The Supreme Court will decide if plaintiffs can sue without real injury.” You can freely access the full text of the editorial via Google.
And in today’s edition of The Wilmington News Journal, law professor Alan Garfield has an essay titled “The impact of ‘standing’ is anything but boring.”
“At the top of the ballot, voters statewide will fill three seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. It’s the most vacancies there since colonial days, and political control of the powerful court, where the GOP has had a majority for 16 years, is up for grabs.” So reports Chris Brennan in a front page article headlined “As some races seem over already, others are up for grabs” in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Tech firms on alert as U.S. top court takes up class action case”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report today.
