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Thursday, July 21, 2016

“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.

Posted at 10:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 8:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.”

Posted at 7:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.”

Posted at 4:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 4:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 4:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 4:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 2:41 PM by Howard Bashman