Programming note: I am about to head into an oral argument prep cocoon from which I expect to emerge at some point tomorrow afternoon once the oral argument in question has concluded. In the interim, as often happens while I am away from my work and home computers, additional appellate-related retweets likely will appear on this blog’s Twitter feed. Additional blog posts will appear here on Tuesday afternoon.
Update: My appellate oral argument midday Tuesday went very well. I will provide links to any news coverage that appears. At some point during my oral argument on behalf of plaintiffs-appellees, I heard something resembling an outcry or commotion from opposing counsel’s table just to the right of where I was standing. After the oral argument, one of the attorneys on my team told me the noise occurred when one of the two attorneys sitting at the table for opposing counsel had his or her cell phone start ringing during the oral argument.
“College Students Go to Court Over Sexual Assault”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this post online at The New Yorker.
“Did Obama win the judicial wars? Liberals say he shied away from too many battles and ran into GOP roadblocks; But the result is still a transformation of U.S. courts.” Michael Grunwald of Politico.com has this report.
“Courts Channel Scalia and Get Different Answers”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.
“On Voting, Courts Stepping Up to Responsibilities”: Kenneth Jost had this post yesterday at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”
“Justice Kennedy’s evolution on race”: Joan Biskupic of CNN.com has this report.
“Republicans Are Not Attacking Democracy; Not every battle over voting is an assault on democratic values”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen — author of the “Election Law Blog” — has this essay online today at The Atlantic.
“Congratulations! @howappealing is now verified.” So states the subject line of an email that just arrived from Twitter. Thanks to all of this blog’s many, many readers and Twitter followers for helping to bring about that good news. You can follow this blog on Twitter via this link.
“Where does the government immigration case stand now?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.
“3 decades later, murder plea deal is still in dispute”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times had this report in March 2015 about the oral argument of a California state prisoner’s habeas appeal before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Today, the majority on a divided three-judge Ninth Circuit panel issued a decision affirming the district court’s denial of habeas relief in the case.
“Chevron Wins Ruling Blocking $8.6 Billion Order in Ecuador Fight”: Bloomberg News has this report.
The Associated Press reports that “US court rules for Chevron in Ecuador rainforest-damage case.”
And Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that “Chevron beats U.S. appeal in Ecuador pollution case.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.
“Criminal Defendants Sometimes ‘Left Behind’ at Supreme Court, Study Shows”: Adam Litpak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.
