“America’s Appellate Lawyer Recaps 5 Years of Legal ‘High Drama'”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.
Posted at 10:32 PM by Howard Bashman
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Saturday, June 11, 2016
“America’s Appellate Lawyer Recaps 5 Years of Legal ‘High Drama'”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times. Posted at 10:32 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court clarifies Canada’s bestiality law with ruling”: Gloria Galloway of The Toronto Globe and Mail has an article that begins, “The parliamentarians who wrote Canada’s bestiality law understood the word to imply the physical penetration of an animal, and it is not the role of jurists to broaden the definition to include other acts, the country’s top court ruled Thursday.” John Paul Tasker of CBC News reports that “Supreme Court’s bestiality ruling prompts call to change ‘archaic’ animal welfare laws.” The Canadian Press has reports headlined “Supreme Court: Crime Of Bestiality Limited To Penetration” and “Animal-rights advocates call for stronger laws after high court’s bestiality ruling; Ruling rejects notion that the offence encompasses any sexual activity between a person and an animal.” Ethan Lou of Reuters has a report headlined “Most animal sex acts not against Canada’s bestiality law: court.” And Ken Shepherd of The Washington Times reports that “Canadian high court throws out sex offender’s bestiality conviction; Rules penetration necessary to charge with offense.” You can access Thursday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link. Posted at 9:00 PM by Howard Bashman“NC cyberbully law unconstitutional, NC Supreme Court says”: Anne Blythe has this front page article in today’s edition of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina. And today at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Eugene Volokh has a post titled “N.C. court strikes down ban on posting ‘personal or sexual information’ about minors ‘with the intent to torment.’” You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of North Carolina at this link. Posted at 5:40 PM by Howard Bashman“A Mensch on the Bench: A judicial temperament involves many qualities; For Merrick Garland ’77, patience is one of them.” This article appears in the Spring 2016 issue of the Harvard Law Bulletin. Posted at 5:30 PM by Howard Bashman“Pa. Superior Court Judge Sallie Mundy expected to receive Supreme Court nod”: Charles Thompson of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has an article that begins, “Gov. Tom Wolf is expected next week to nominate Superior Court Judge Sallie Updyke Mundy to fill the vacancy on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court created by the resignation of former Justice J. Michael Eakin.” Posted at 5:26 PM by Howard Bashman“Former Qwest CEO Nacchio Wins $18 Million Tax Refund Ruling In Court”: Denver’s CBS4 had this report back in April 2015. Yesterday, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision reversing the refund entitlement ruling. Posted at 3:00 PM by Howard Bashman“Pulling Back the Curtain: How Richard Lazarus explored the Supreme Court’s inner workings and prompted a change in how it operates.” This article appears in the Spring 2016 issue of the Harvard Law Bulletin. Posted at 1:34 PM by Howard Bashman“Mystery endures: What we don’t know about the Markel investigation.” Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report. Posted at 1:23 PM by Howard Bashman“Puerto Rico Criticizes Supreme Court’s Decision on Sovereignty; High court ruled island is arm of U.S. federal government for criminal prosecution purposes; governor to seek to raise issue with U.N. panel on decolonization”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report. Posted at 12:15 PM by Howard Bashman“What Would Brandeis Do? One hundred years have passed since Louis Brandeis joined the Supreme Court, but his legal writing remains as relevant as ever.” Slate has today posted online this new installment of its “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick. Posted at 9:44 AM by Howard Bashman“Oregon court allows person to change sex from ‘female’ to ‘non-binary'”: Casey Parks of The Oregonian has this report. Posted at 8:50 AM by Howard Bashman“Serious About Standing: The Court Should Dismiss Two Out of the Three Major Cases Left”: Eric Segall has this post today at “Dorf on Law.” Posted at 8:40 AM by Howard Bashman |
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