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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

“Reading the Tyson tea leaves: This case won’t be vehicle for big class action changes.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

Posted at 7:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Obscure N.D. judge takes lead role in fight over Obama rule”: Jeremy P. Jacobs and Annie Snider of Greenwire have an article that begins, “With the stroke of his pen, Ralph Erickson catapulted himself to the center of a decades-long politically charged battle over the country’s foremost water law.”

Posted at 7:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Landmark Case Korematsu v. United States“: C-SPAN has posted the video of this Monday’s broadcast, featuring Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu, at this link.

Posted at 3:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Brent Dickson to leave Indiana Supreme Court after three decades; Former Chief Justice Brent Dickson is the second-longest-serving justice in the state’s history”: Kristine Guerra of The Indianapolis Star has this report.

Posted at 1:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Pat Toomey Is Holding Up His Own Judicial Nominees. Again. It’s part of a pattern of Republicans delaying votes on Obama’s court picks.” Jennifer Bendery of The Huffington Post has this report.

Posted at 1:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Sioux Falls welcomes ‘Sonia Sotomayor Elementary’; Members of the naming committee were drawn to Sotomayor’s impressive background”: The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, South Dakota has an article that begins, “The new Spanish immersion school in Sioux Falls will be named after the first Hispanic to serve on the United States Supreme Court.”

Posted at 11:07 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Is About To Consider A Case That Could End Roe V. Wade”: Ian Millhiser has this post at ThinkProgress.

Posted at 8:50 AM by Howard Bashman



Tuesday, November 10, 2015

“Supreme Court Hears Tyson Foods Class-Action Labor Case”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news update.

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Justices tilt toward workers in dressing time fight.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Likely to Uphold Wage Suit Against Tyson Foods; Tyson case is part of business push to further rein in class-actions.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices skeptical of Tyson Foods in class-action case.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices skeptical toward Tyson class action appeal.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Tyson Gets Skepticism at High Court on Class Action Award.”

At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument analysis: Big test of class action — maybe not so big.”

And at Forbes.com, Daniel Fisher has a post titled “Class-Action Challenge Fizzles At Supreme Court As Justices Debate Minutiae.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, No. 14-1146.

Posted at 6:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Obama appeals to Supreme Court to save his immigration plan”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Obama administration will ask the Supreme Court to save the president’s plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, after lower courts blocked it.”

Posted at 12:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Shirley Abrahamson drops legal effort to regain chief justice post”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

Posted at 12:05 PM by Howard Bashman



Monday, November 9, 2015

“Briefly Noted: Notorious RBG, by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik (Dey Street).” From the November 16, 2015 issue of The New Yorker, which you can access at this link.

Posted at 2:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Tennessee appellate courts lack diversity, raising concerns; More than three-quarters of Tennessee’s appeals court judges are white men”: Stacey Barchenger has this front page article in today’s edition of The Tennessean.

And in related coverage, Owen Bowcott of The Guardian (UK) has an article headlined “Lady Hale: supreme court should be ashamed if diversity does not improve; UK’s only female supreme court judge criticises all-male, all-white appointments and says a search committee should be set up to find candidates.”

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Locking in Votes and Doling Out ‘Dogs’: How Roberts Assigns Opinions.” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

And online at The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article headlined “Chief justice favors some when assigning court’s major decisions.”

Both articles discuss law professor Richard J. Lazarus‘s Harvard Law Review Forum commentary posted online today titled “Back to ‘Business’ at the Supreme Court: The ‘Administrative Side’ of Chief Justice Roberts.”

Posted at 1:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Birth Control Is Back Before The Supreme Court. Liberals Could Win This Time.” Ian Millhiser has this post today at ThinkProgress.

Posted at 11:30 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Right Leader for New York’s Courts”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “The job of running New York State’s highest court is open once again, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has an important decision to make in filling it.”

According to the editorial, a certain former D.C. Circuit nominee now at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is under consideration for the post (not him, but her).

Posted at 11:28 AM by Howard Bashman



Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

In Mullenix v. Luna, No. 14-1143, the Court issued a per curiam summary reversal. Justice Antonin Scalia issued an opinion concurring in the judgment. And Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a dissenting opinion.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “High court sides with state trooper over fatal shooting“; “High court won’t hear challenge over nonprofit donor lists“; and “High court rejects Cleveland’s appeal over ‘jock tax.’”

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court rejects cellphone search warrant case” and “U.S. top court allows Apotex to pursue generic version of Daiichi drug.”

Posted at 9:39 AM by Howard Bashman