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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

“The Supreme Court Should Hurry Up And Wait On Immigration: The Obama administration wants to push the Supreme Court into a landmark separation-of-powers decision over its immigration overreach.” Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman have this post today at The Federalist.

Posted at 10:40 AM by Howard Bashman



“Texas seeks delay in Obama immigration case at Supreme Court”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this report.

At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “States seek delay of immigration case.”

At ThinkProgress, Ian Millhiser has a post titled “The Fate Of Over 4 Million People Could Rest With Justice Scalia.”

And at the “Democracy in America” blog of The Economist, Steven Mazie has a post titled “Obama asks the Supreme Court to act fast to save his immigration orders.”

Posted at 10:36 AM by Howard Bashman



Is “SCOTUSblog” an independent news organization, or a blog of the law firm that sponsors it? One new data point in that conversation is a post that deputy blog manager Molly Runkle has today titled “Goldstein & Russell is hiring an associate attorney.” In that post’s favor, I can say that reading it is likely to make you wish you worked there.

Posted at 10:22 AM by Howard Bashman



“Colorado Supreme Court upholds conviction of backseat-driving dad; The Colorado Supreme Court found that Kenneth Childress was equally responsible for a head-on collision that injured a 3-year-old and the teenager driving”: Jordan Steffen has this article in today’s edition of The Denver Post.

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Colorado at this link.

Posted at 8:30 AM by Howard Bashman



“Constitution Check: Why all the interest in Article III ‘standing’?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

Posted at 8:23 AM by Howard Bashman



Monday, November 23, 2015

“Roberts on Supreme Court’s Changing Face (Beards Optional)”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“At End of Sheldon Silver’s Corruption Trial, the ‘Law Guys’ Take Over”: Benjamin Weiser has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Wisconsin abortion admitting privileges law unconstitutional, court affirms”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this news update.

The Wisconsin State Journal has a news update headlined “Appeals court backs rejection of abortion doctor admitting law.”

The Associated Press reports that “Federal court rules Wisconsin abortion law unconstitutional.”

And Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court rules against Wisconsin abortion doctor law.”

Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote the majority opinion that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today.

Posted at 6:08 PM by Howard Bashman



In the December 2015 issue of ABA Journal magazine: Mark Walsh has an article headlined “Redistricting case brings partisan politics, immigration and federalism before SCOTUS.”

Stephanie Francis Ward has an article headlined “Supreme Court ruling could spark more unintentional-discrimination cases.”

The issue contains the “The 9th Annual Blawg 100” and the “2015 Blawg 100 Hall of Fame.” In addition, Molly McDonough has an article addressing “What is the state of the legal blogosphere?” while Stephanie Francis Ward reports that “‘Umpire’ blog is shuttered, but its judge-author is staying in the game.”

And this month’s installmenf of Bryan A. Garner’s “On Words” column is titled “30 more words to test your pronunciation skills.”

Posted at 5:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judicial Gobbledygook: The Readability of Supreme Court Writing.” Ryan Whalen has this essay at The Yale Law Journal Forum.

Posted at 5:36 PM by Howard Bashman



Last week’s Third Circuit oral argument audio: On Thursday of last week, two cases in which I was involved were argued before the same three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Because the audio from these oral arguments is now available online, I am providing links to those arguments.

In the case captioned In re: National Football League Players Concussion Injury Litigation — a case in which I argued for approximately two minutes on behalf of two objectors but did not participate in the briefing of — you can access the oral argument audio via this link (52.5 MB mp3 audio file).

And in the case captioned In re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation — a case in which I participated in the briefing but which my client’s lead trial counsel did an excellent job of arguing on appeal — you can access the oral argument audio via this link (11.8 MB mp3 audio file).

The second of these two oral arguments was the panel’s final oral argument of the day. The presiding judge — Circuit Judge Thomas L. Ambro — can be heard profusely apologizing for having to actually enforce the red light indicator because one of his colleagues on the panel had an important conference call scheduled to begin promptly at 12:30 p.m., thereby establishing Judge Ambro as a true successor to the late Third Circuit Judge Edward R. Becker (access one of among many quite moving tributes here) when it comes to ordinarily ignoring oral argument time limits.

Posted at 12:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Roberts recalls another chief justice and reveals a little about himself”: Robert Barnes has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

Posted at 8:14 AM by Howard Bashman



Sunday, November 22, 2015

“Stevens wrapping up term on Supreme Court”: In today’s edition of The Times-Tribune of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Robert Swift has an article that begins, “Duffel bag on his shoulder, Supreme Court Justice Correale Stevens made the rounds of the state Capitol last week offering farewells as his term on the state’s highest court ends.”

Posted at 12:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Return of Korematsu: Seventy years after the mass internment of Japanese Americans was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the ugly ideas at the core of its decision are resurfacing.” Matt Ford of The Atlantic has this report.

Posted at 12:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Eakin’s arrogance”: Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an editorial that begins, “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin’s latest attempt to quell concerns about his fitness for the bench has had the opposite effect.”

Posted at 10:18 AM by Howard Bashman



Saturday, November 21, 2015

“U.S. Supreme Court could decide the fate of Kansas abortion regulations; Regulations in Texas case before the court similar to those in Kansas”: Justin Wingerter of The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report.

Posted at 11:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s 3 justices-elect appraise its battered image, need for changes”: Peter Jackson of The Associated Press has this report.

Posted at 11:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“A threat to freedom of speech at the Supreme Court”: Online at The Washington Post, columnist George F. Will has an essay in which he writes, “[o]n Tuesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear such a case from Texas, where it is a crime for a retired veterinarian to share his advice with people seeking it.”

Posted at 11:33 PM by Howard Bashman