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Monday, September 25, 2017

“One Of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Sits On The Board Of A Group That Defends ‘Conversion’ Therapy”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 9:38 PM by Howard Bashman



I just registered online to attend the 2017 AJEI Summit in Long Beach, CA: And you can, too, via this link. Although online registration supposedly requires you to sign-up for a Duke Conference and Event Services account, the process is painlessly simple, requiring only the creation of a password as part of the ordinary online registration process.

This will be the fourth annual Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit in a row that I have attended, and the preceding three were all wonderful events. This also marks the second year in a row that I have been on the AJEI Education Planning Committee and that I will be moderating a panel.

You can view the event’s agenda, which lists all of the speakers and panelists, via this link. The panel that I will be moderating on the morning of Saturday, November 4, 2017 features Adam Feldman of the “Empirical SCOTUS” blog, law professor Richard L. Hasen of the “Election Law Blog,” and law professor RonNell Andersen Jones. If that’s not reason enough to attend, the presentation immediately preceding my panel features both Seventh Circuit Chief Judge Diane P. Wood and Bryan A. Garner. The very next panel following the panel I’m moderating (after a lunch break) features Senior Fifth Circuit Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham and law professor Pamela S. Karlan.

This week is the final week to register and qualify for a substantial early-bird discount. This year will be the first time in a number of years that the AJEI Summit is taking place in California, so appellate attorneys in California and elsewhere in the western United States should definitely take advantage of this opportunity to attend a wonderful event offering top-notch appellate CLE programming and rare opportunity to socialize with a large number of other appellate attorneys and judges.

Posted at 4:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“US appeals court agrees that college can’t suspend student”: Dan Sewell of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court panel has agreed with blocking a university’s suspension of a male student accused of sexually assaulting a female student.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 2:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“What To Do With Violent Sex Offenders: The Supreme Court considers whether ‘civil commitment’ is just prison by another name.” Maurice Chammah has this post onine at The Marshall Project.

Posted at 1:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Travel Ban 3.0 could derail Supreme Court case”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this report.

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg Nws reports that “New Trump Travel Ban Raises Stakes for Supreme Court Legal Fight.”

Andrew Chung of Reuters has an article headlined “Trump’s new travel ban could be harder to fight in court — experts.”

And in commentary, online at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “Trump’s New Travel Ban Could Win Over Justices; If this version had been issued in January, the courts would probably have let it stand.”

Posted at 1:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“We Know a Lot About What Robert Mueller Is Doing. We Also Know Nothing at All. Looking for clues in the actions of D.C.’s second-most-powerful man.” Cristian Farias of New York magazine has this report.

Posted at 8:27 AM by Howard Bashman



“‘Lonely Scholar With Unusual Ideas’ Defends Trump, Igniting Legal Storm”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 8:22 AM by Howard Bashman



“America’s Red and Blue Judges: Justice Neil Gorsuch exemplifies how the Supreme Court has become fully enmeshed in the rankest partisan politics.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 8:14 AM by Howard Bashman