“Museums win bid to keep antiquities”: The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin has an article that begins, “A federal appeals court Tuesday declined to clear the way for victims of a terrorist attack financed by Iran to use ancient Persian artifacts to help satisfy a $71.5 million judgment against that nation.”
You can access Tuesday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.
“Why do securities class actions drag on once SCOTUS gets involved?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.
“Texans may use postcard, affidavit for voter ID after court faults law”: Jon Herskovitz of Reuters has this report.
“Southwest, Delta feud over Love Field headed back to court”: Dallas Business Journal has an article that begins, “Southwest Airlines and Delta have received a Sept. 26 court date for oral arguments to a federal appeals panel in the carriers’ feud over gate space at Dallas’ Love Field.”
“Rulings may make voter ID laws presidential race nonfactors”: The Associated Press has this report.
“Burning the Flag Is OK, But Starting Fires Sometimes Isn’t”: Online today at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay that begins, “The man who established the constitutional right to burn the American flag almost 30 years ago may go to prison for doing the same thing outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland yesterday.”
“90 Second Recess with Bloomberg BNA”: Josh Blackman has this post today at his blog. You can view the video of Blackman’s interview with Kimberly Robinson of Bloomberg BNA via this link.
“The Clerk, The Thief, His Life As A Baker: Visiting Judge Tells Story of 1919 Supreme Court Leak.” Chinwe Chukwuogo has this post online at the web site of the University of Chicago Law School.
“ACLU Taps Constitutional Expert David Cole as National Legal Director; High-Profile Litigator, Scholar, and Prominent Author Will Direct Legal Program for Premier Civil Liberties Organization”: The American Civil Liberties Union issued this news release today.
“SCOTUS Usually Steers Clear of Politics . . . Sort of”: Kimberly Robinson of Bloomberg BNA has this report.
“Government Playbook for Prosecutors Should Be Public”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.
“Texas voter photo ID law nullified”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.
And in today’s edition of The Austin American-Statesman, Julie Chang and Tim Eaton have a front page article headlined “Appeals court strikes down Texas voter ID law.”
“The Voting Rights Act Might Get Some Teeth Back: Thanks to an appeals ruling, Texas’ discriminatory voting laws could end up under federal oversight.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen — author of the “Election Law Blog” — has this jurisprudence essay online today at Slate.
And online today at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “Political Reality Smacks Down Texas’ Voter ID Law.”
“Suit: Wording of Pa. referendum on judges’ retirement age ‘deceitful'”: Angela Couloumbis of The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article that begins, “Two former Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices and one of the region’s most prominent lawyers filed suit Thursday to stop an eleventh-hour change in wording to an upcoming ballot question raising the retirement age for judges, calling it an attempt to hoodwink voters and influence the outcome.”
In the April 2016 installment of my monthly “Upon Further Review” column published in The Legal Intelligencer — headlined “Delay of Vote on Judicial Retirement Age Could Make One Cynical” — I offered a similar take on the delay and rewording of Pennsylvania’s judicial retirement age increase ballot proposal.
“Judge Garland’s Nomination, Day 126”: Jeffrey Rosen had this op-ed in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times.