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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

“Democrats joyful over clean sweep of 3 open seats on Pennsylvania Supreme Court”: The Associated Press has this report.

Chris Palmer of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update headlined “Dougherty, Dems, sweep historic Supreme Court race.”

And The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a news update headlined “Democrats post strong leads in PA Commonwealth, Superior court races.”

You can access the statewide Pennsylvania judicial election results via this link.

Posted at 10:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“Death Penalty Foes Split Over Taking Issue to Supreme Court”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Wednesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Redskins: US has registered plenty of ‘offensive’ trademarks.” The Associated Press has this report.

Ian Shapira of The Washington Post has an article headlined “‘Take Yo Panties Off’ defense: Redskins cite other protected products in trademark appeal.”

The Hill has a report headlined “Redskins: Trademark cancellations violate the First Amendment.”

The Guardian (UK) reports that “Washington highlight porn sites to defend ‘Redskins’ name.”

Vice Sports has a post titled “Washington’s Bid to Save Racist Trademark: ‘Take Yo Panties Off’ Clothing Can Do It, Why Can’t We?

And online at Sports Illustrated, the “Extra Mustard” blog has a post titled “We called the companies that the Redskins called offensive.”

In this post from yesterday evening, I linked to the opening brief on appeal that the Washington Redskins filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Posted at 6:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Race for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Breaks Spending Record”: Joe Palazzolo has this post today at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”

And today at ThinkProgress, Ian Millhiser has a post titled “Scandal, Explicit Emails, Behind The Most Expensive Supreme Court Race In American History.”

Polls in Pennsylvania close at 8 p.m. eastern time tonight, and “How Appealing” plans on covering the election results this evening for the three open seats on Pennsylvania’s highest court.

Posted at 5:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Pa. Supreme Court sends review of Justice Eakin’s email to conduct board”: Karen Langley has this front page article in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

In today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Angela Couloumbis and Craig R. McCoy have a front page article headlined “No high court discipline for Justice Eakin on offensive emails.”

In today’s edition of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Charles Thompson has a front page article headlined “Supreme Court’s special counsel says Justice Eakin’s emails don’t warrant emergency action.”

In today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Brad Bumsted has a front page article headlined “Report: Ethics board, not Pa. high court, should evaluate justice emails.”

And The Associated Press reports that “PA Supreme Court defers probe over jurist’s emails made public by Kathleen Kane to ethics probe.”

Yesterday, the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts issued this media advisory and also posted online the Report of Special Counsel, a Statement by Justice Todd, and a Statement by Justice Stevens.

Posted at 2:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“In Religious Arbitration, Scripture Is the Rule of Law”: This lengthy front page article appears in today’s edition of The New York Times, the third and final part of a three-part series titled “Beware the Fine Print.”

And yesterday, the “Institute for Legal Reform” blog of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had a post titled “Dog Bites Man: New York Times Prefers Lawyer-Controlled Class Actions over Fair Arbitration that Enables Individuals to Protect Themselves.”

Posted at 9:36 AM by Howard Bashman