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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

“Judge: Reporters, witnesses must be allowed to see entire execution in Arizona; When it took two hours to kill prisoner Joseph Wood, witnesses could not see executioners pumping multiple doses of drugs into the killer.” Michael Kiefer of The Arizona Republic has this report.

Posted at 10:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘Whitey’ Bulger, Boston Marathon prosecutor stepping down”: Steve LeBlanc of The Associated Press has this report. As the article explains, “Ortiz also drew fire after her office sought to prosecute 26-year-old Aaron Swartz on allegations he surreptitiously used the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s network to download millions of articles from a scholarly archive with the goal of making them freely available.”

Posted at 8:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ruling backs Montana’s right to Wyoming water for reservoir”: Matthew Brown of The Associated Press has an article that begins, “A special master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a long-running dispute over state water rights says Wyoming is obligated to provide enough water to fill a reservoir in Montana.”

Posted at 8:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump team gets early constitutional assignment”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

Posted at 7:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Antonin Scalia: He claimed objectivity when it came to originalism, but he was a skeptic about science.” Emily Bazelon will have this essay in “The Lives They Lived” tribute in this upcoming Sunday’s edition of The New York Times Magazine.

Posted at 7:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“What happens if Trump tries to abuse his power? Look to the court system.” David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Posted at 7:30 PM by Howard Bashman



En banc Ninth Circuit panel rejects federal constitutional challenges to California’s charging nonresident commercial fishers higher fees for vessel registrations, licenses, and permits: You can access today’s ruling of an 11-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link. As to one aspect of the challenges, the en banc panel divided 6-to-5.

Back in September 2015, the majority on a divided three-judge Ninth Circuit panel held that the higher charges for nonresident fishers was unconstitutional. You can access my earlier coverage of that now-vacated ruling at this link.

Posted at 1:42 PM by Howard Bashman