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Sunday, March 26, 2017

“Behind Neil Gorsuch’s Non-Answers: Every sign suggests that he would be at least as conservative a judicial activist as Samuel Alito.” Jeffrey Toobin will have this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the April 3, 2017 issue of The New Yorker.

Posted at 5:24 PM by Howard Bashman



Not an in rem proceeding: On Friday, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued its ruling in United States v. Titties. In spite of that caption, footnote one of the majority opinion explains that “Like the parties and the district court, we refer to the defendant by his proper last name of Tittle.”

Posted at 2:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: ‘Breyer, Alito, and Their Pals.'” Aaron Nielson has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Posted at 10:30 AM by Howard Bashman



“Court to hear case of student brain damaged after China trip”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Connecticut Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving a private boarding school student who contracted a tick-borne disease during a school trip to China and was left brain-damaged.”

And in commentary, law professors John C.P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky have an op-ed titled “Legal Test Of School’s Responsibility In $41.5 Million Hotchkiss Case” online at The Hartford Courant.

The case, on certified question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, is scheduled for oral argument tomorrow in the Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Posted at 10:05 AM by Howard Bashman