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Friday, January 8, 2016

“Animal Rights Group Loses Copyright Suit Over Monkey Selfies”: This audio segment featuring Nina Totenberg appeared on yesterday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Posted at 10:53 PM by Howard Bashman



“US Courts Administrative Office Sued Because PACER’s Bad Math Is Overcharging Users”: Tim Cushing has this post today at Techdirt.

Posted at 10:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Vehicle Problems vs. Unusual Vehicles: The Supreme Court’s Bizarre Cert. Grant in Welch.” Steve Vladeck has this post today at “PrawfsBlawg.”

Posted at 10:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Yet another misjudgment”: Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer has an editorial that begins, “As Pennsylvania’s courts have relentlessly demonstrated, a judiciary populated by a partisan political process will behave accordingly. State Supreme Court Justice-without-portfolio J. Michael Eakin’s attempt to engineer last-minute lame-duck appointments provides only the latest troubling evidence thereof.”

Posted at 10:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Coal miner’s daughter becomes Pa. Supreme Court justice, 2nd woman on highest bench”: Matthew Santoni of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has an article that begins, “The daughter of a coal miner was sworn in to a seat on Pennsylvania’s highest court by the daughter of a steelworker inside Pittsburgh’s Duquesne Club on Friday, then called upon her political supporters to elevate more women and minorities to the bench.”

Posted at 10:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Listen to Justice Antonin Scalia’s Metairie speech defending government support of religion”: Robert McClendon of The Times-Picayune has this report today.

Posted at 4:26 PM by Howard Bashman