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Friday, February 26, 2016

“Why politicians make risky Supreme Court nominees”: Columnist Michael McGough has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 10:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Domestic Abusers Take Their Fight To Own Guns To The Supreme Court; Anti-gun violence groups warn the case could put women’s lives at stake”:
Melissa Jeltsen of The Huffington Post has this report.

Posted at 10:35 PM by Howard Bashman



“It’s time for a wartime veteran on the Supreme Court”: Sam Ayres and Dan Driscoll have this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 10:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Better Care or Onerous Restrictions? Texas Abortion Law Going Before Supreme Court.” Jan Hoffman of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 9:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Case for Nominating Elizabeth Warren to the Supreme Court: The time for temperate, modest, and self-abnegating wonks is next vacancy.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 8:53 PM by Howard Bashman



“In Supreme Court battle, does ‘advise and consent’ still work?” David G. Savage and Michael A. Memoli of The Los Angeles Times have this report.

Posted at 8:47 PM by Howard Bashman



“Key Case Goes to Supreme Court Without Abortion Foe Antonin Scalia; Abortion-rights groups can still win, whereas opponents likely can get a tie vote at most”: Louise Radnofsky and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Posted at 4:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities.” The Newseum has posted on YouTube at this link yesterday’s interview of Justice Stephen G. Breyer by NBC News correspondent Pete Williams.

Posted at 4:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Biden killed John Roberts’s nomination in 1992”: Columnist Marc A. Thiessen has this essay online at The Washington Post.

Posted at 4:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Outside conservative groups overwhelm Arkansas judge races”: The Associated Press has this report.

According to the article, “the barrage is focused on two state Supreme Court races that have become Arkansas’ most fiercely fought contests, thanks to the ramped up efforts of outside conservative groups to reshape the nation’s state courts by shattering spending records.”

Posted at 4:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Samsung scores legal win over Apple in patent feud”: Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News has an article that begins, “In perhaps Samsung’s biggest legal win over Apple in their longrunning patent war, a federal apppeals court on Friday overturned a 2014 verdict that slapped the South Korean tech giant with nearly $120 million in damages for copying certain iPhone features.”

Susan Decker of Bloomberg News reports that “Apple Loses Appeal in $119.6 Million Samsung Smartphone Case.”

Reuters reports that “Samsung wins appeal in patent dispute with Apple.”

Joe Mullin of Ars Technica reports that “Apple’s $120M jury verdict against Samsung destroyed on appeal; Apple’s autocorrect and ‘slide to unlock’ are invalid in light of prior art.”

And at Fortune.com, Don Reisinger reports that “Samsung Wins Appeal In $120M Patent Fight With Apple.”

You can access today’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit at this link.

Posted at 2:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“News Guide: Details on Scalia’s health at time of his death.” The Associated Press has this report, linking to two underlying documents that you can access here and here.

Posted at 1:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Lucy Koh nominated for US Court of Appeals in SF”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News reports that “San Jose Judge Lucy Koh nominated to federal appeals court.”

The Associated Press reports that “Obama nominates Silicon Valley judge to appellate court.”

At Fortune.com, Jeff John Roberts reports that “White House to Promote Silicon Valley’s Most Famous Judge.”

And at her “Trial Insider” blog, Pamela A. MacLean has a post titled “Koh Nominated to 9th Circuit.”

Yesterday, the White House issued a news release titled “President Obama Nominates Judge Lucy Haeran Koh to serve on the United States Court of Appeals.”

And the Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a news release titled “U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh Nominated to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.”

Posted at 1:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Grave Risks of the Senate Republicans’ Stated Refusal to Process any Supreme Court Nominee President Obama Sends Them”: Law professor Vikram David Amar has this essay online today at Justia’s Verdict.

Posted at 11:28 AM by Howard Bashman



“Scalia Led Court in Taking Trips Funded by Private Sponsors”: Eric Lipton will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:02 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Single Most Revealing Sentence Obama Has Said About His Supreme Court Nominee”: Ian Millhiser of ThinkProgress has this post today.

Posted at 10:58 AM by Howard Bashman



“Decision to kill deal in Eakin’s Porngate case cheers some, leaves others in shock”: Wallace McKelvey of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

Paula Reed Ward of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that “Court of Judicial Discipline stymies deal between Supreme Court justice and investigators.”

In today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Natasha Lindstrom has a front page article headlined “Suspended state Supreme Court justice leaves ethics panel without settlement.”

The Associated Press reports that “Court won’t consider deal for judge in salacious email case.”

And today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an editorial titled “Justice Eakin should be judged.”

Posted at 10:56 AM by Howard Bashman