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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

“Supreme Court Weighs Bias and Secrecy in Jury Deliberations”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article headlined “Supreme Court hears case concerning biased comments in jury room.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Weighs Bias Claims in Murder Trial; Justices hear arguments over whether expert witness’s racial comments undermined African-American man’s sentencing.”

And Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Justices divided over jury racism, privacy.”

Posted at 10:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Case Accusing Bush Officials of 9/11 Abuses Heads to Supreme Court”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article headlined “Supreme Court to consider lawsuit against former attorney general Ashcroft.”

Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Six-justice SCOTUS could decide cases on post-9/11 detentions.”

And at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center, Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Webster Bivens’ story — an update after a half-century.”

Posted at 10:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court to decide whether U.S. Border Patrol agent can be sued for shooting Mexican teenager”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Posted at 10:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Consumer Protection Agency Is Unusual. It’s Not Unconstitutional.” Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

Online at The Los Angeles Times, business columnist Michael Hiltzik has an essay titled “A conservative federal judge takes an overheated slap at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”

And at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation, Aaron Nielson has a post yesterday titled “D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: A Primer on Today’s CFPB Decision.”

Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Bloomberg Law: Former Solicitor General Don Verrilli.” Donald Verrilli speaks with Greg Stohr and June Grasso in a podcast you can access via this link.

Posted at 9:35 PM by Howard Bashman



“Death sentence in doubt?” In today’s edition of The Oklahoman, Chris Casteel has a front page article that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new review of the death sentence given to an Oklahoma man convicted of killing a woman and her two children.”

Also in today’s edition of The Oklahoman, Nolan Clay has a front page article headlined “Some death row inmates have been executed despite same error in their cases; one resentenced to life.”

Posted at 9:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Never Really ‘Notorious RBG’: Her attacks on Colin Kaepernick dispel that myth once and for all.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 9:00 PM by Howard Bashman