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Sunday, March 5, 2017

“Law restricting protests during Supreme Court proceedings is upheld”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “Prosecutors Win Back Broad Authority To Charge Supreme Court Protesters; A federal appeals court said that a lower court judge was wrong to strike down a section of a law used to charge protesters in the Supreme Court as unconstitutionally vague.”

You can access Friday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

Posted at 11:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court to consider ‘water wars’ report”: The News Service of Florida has an article that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court will take the next step March 17 in Florida’s lawsuit against Georgia over water use in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system.”

Posted at 9:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gorsuch willing to limit environmental groups in land cases”: Holbrook Mohr and Garance Burke of The Associated Press have this report.

Posted at 9:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Medical device makers stand to gain if Neil Gorsuch approved for Supreme Court; The state’s device makers stand to gain if Supreme Court nominee confirmed”: Jim Spencer of The Minneapolis Star Tribune has this report.

Posted at 9:00 PM by Howard Bashman



The Federalist Society has posted online video from its 2017 National Student Symposium at Columbia Law School: Second Circuit Judge Reena Raggi served as moderator of Panel 1, titled “Privacy and Freedom of the Press.” You can view the video on YouTube via this link.

You can view the video of Panel 2, titled “Campaign Finance and Free Speech,” via this link.

Panel 2 was followed by a session titled “Debate: ABA Model Rule 8.4.” Eighth Circuit Judge Lavenski R. Smith moderated the debate, in which law professor Eugene Volokh was a participant. You can view the video via this link.

Eleventh Circuit Judge William H. Pryor, Jr. served as the moderator of Panel 3, titled “Religious Liberty after the USCCR Report.” You can view the video via this link.

Third Circuit Judge Thomas M. Hardiman served as moderator of Panel 4, titled “Universities and the First Amendment.” You can view the video via this link.

Finally, law professor Richard A. Epstein delivered the keynote address, the video of which you can view via this link.

Posted at 4:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Neil Gorsuch is exactly the kind of Supreme Court justice we need”: Josh Hawley, Missouri’s attorney general, has this essay at CNN.com.

Posted at 1:18 PM by Howard Bashman