“Porngate investigator steps aside after Daily News report”: William Bender of The Philadelphia Daily News has this report.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015
“Porngate investigator steps aside after Daily News report”: William Bender of The Philadelphia Daily News has this report. Posted at 10:18 PM by Howard Bashman“Scalia asks if Supreme Court expresses nation’s principles”: The Associated Press has this report from Philadelphia. Posted at 10:15 PM by Howard Bashman“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“U.S. justices’ 2007 climate change ruling looms over immigration case”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report. Posted at 7:53 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“The Common Law in the Supreme Court”: Law professor Richard Epstein has this post online at Ricochet. Posted at 1:33 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“Google defeats most claims in browser tracking lawsuit”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report. And at Wired.com, Andy Greenberg has a post titled “Court Says Tracking Web Histories Can Violate Wiretap Act.” You can access yesterday’s 60-page ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link. Posted at 1:25 PM by Howard Bashman“Minow Champions Affirmative Action in Amici Brief”: The Harvard Crimson has this report. You can view the amicus brief, on which Carter G. Phillips is counsel of record, at this link. Posted at 11:38 AM 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“Supreme Court Shields Police From Juries”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View. And online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Sonia Sotomayor Takes a Stand Against Police Brutality; In a stunning dissent, the justice condemns the ‘culture’ of deadly force.” Posted at 11:03 AM by Howard Bashman“Ex-justice: State Supreme Court voted to strike ban on gay marriage.” The Arkansas News Bureau has this report. Posted at 8:57 AM by Howard Bashman“Harvard Law Review releases Supreme Court issue”: Harvard Law Today has this report. You can access the contents of the November 2015 issue of the Harvard Law Review via this link. Posted at 8:54 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“A warrant without warrant: or, the magistrate’s reach.” Benjamin Gould has this post at his “Appellate Briefs” blog about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued yesterday. The decision is worth a look, among other reasons, because Circuit Judge Neil M. Gorsuch issued an opinion concurring in the judgment. Posted at 8:32 AM by Howard Bashman“Glaring conflict in Porngate probe?” William Bender of The Philadelphia Daily News has this article today. Posted at 8:14 AM by Howard BashmanTuesday, November 10, 2015
“Appeals court halts order NSA says would shutter surveillance program”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post. Posted at 6:20 PM by Howard Bashman“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 BashmanMonday, November 9, 2015
“Appeals court: State can try ‘Angola 3’ inmate a 3rd time.” The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued today. Posted at 8:42 PM by Howard Bashman“Appeals court rules against Obama immigration plan”: The Associated Press has this report. You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link. Posted at 8:29 PM by Howard Bashman“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“The Supreme Court and Contraceptive Coverage — Take 2”: Gregory M. Lipper recently had this post at the “Bill of Health” blog of Harvard Law’s Petrie-Flom Center. And yesterday at “Balkinization,” Marty Lederman had a post titled “Who is the ‘Zubik’ in Zubik v. Burwell . . . and why is he allegedly complicit in the use of contraception?” Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman“Cameras in the Supreme Court”: Professor Ronald D. Rotunda has this essay online today at Justia.com’s Verdict. Posted at 1:40 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“Supreme Court Sides With Police Officer Who Shot Man in Car Chase”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news update. And David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court gives police using deadly force in chases more immunity.” Posted at 1:25 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“U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Cleveland’s jock tax lawsuit”: The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this news update. Posted at 1:00 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 BashmanIf you prefer your coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court with a British accent (and frankly who doesn’t): This morning’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” included a segment titled “Supreme Court Contraception Ruling” featuring Lawrence Hurley of Reuters. Posted at 11:22 AM by Howard BashmanAccess 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 |
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