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Thursday, March 22, 2018

“GOP chief justice slams Republican judicial impeachment move”: Liz Navratil of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has this report.

Jan Murphy of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has articles headlined “Pa. Supreme Court chief justice sees impeachment resolutions as ‘attack upon an independent judiciary’” and “Pa. attorney general calls on House to reject judicial impeachment resolutions.”

Debra Erdley of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that “Chief Justice condemns impeachment resolutions.”

And Sam Levine of HuffPost reports that “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Scolds His Own Party For Trying To Impeach Justices.”

The official website of the Pennsylvania Courts today posted online a news release titled “PA Supreme Court Chief Justice Reacts to Threats of Impeachment.”

Posted at 10:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why Republicans Are Right To Impeach Pennsylvania’s Rogue Supreme Court Justices Over Gerrymandering; What is more in accord with the rule of law: four justices usurping the power of a co-equal branch of government, or a legislature doing exactly what the state constitution allows?” Kyle Sammin has this post at The Federalist.

Posted at 10:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“In ruling for victim in UCLA attack, California Supreme Court says universities should protect students”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Court puts onus on California colleges to protect students from ‘foreseeable violence.’

Douglas Belkin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Schools Have a Duty to Protect Students From Attacks, Rules California High Court; Decision comes as violence has become a more regular occurrence on campuses.”

Sudhin Thanawala of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: California colleges have duty to protect students.”

Maria Dinzeo of Courthouse News Service reports that “California High Court Rules Colleges Must Protect Students.”

And at the “At the Lectern” blog, David Ettinger has a post titled “Colleges and universities have a duty to protect their students from certain violence.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of California at this link.

Posted at 9:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“At the Supreme Court, No Consensus on the Death Penalty; Justices alternately upheld, halted and questioned executions on an array of grounds this week”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 9:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Chief Justice Burger and the Bench: How Physically Changing the Shape of the Court’s Bench Reduced Interruptions during Oral Argument.” Ryan C. Black, Timothy R. Johnson, and Ryan J. Owens have this very interesting article (subscription required for full access) in the March 2018 issue of the Journal of Supreme Court History, which arrived in my office mail today.

I have initiated contact with the article’s authors to see if perhaps free online access to this article can be provided for those one or two “How Appealing” readers who aren’t members of the Supreme Court Historical Society and thus don’t have a subscription to the Journal of Supreme Court History.

Update: With thanks to article co-author Tim Johnson, you can access the full text of the article online at this link.

Posted at 3:11 PM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. spending bill includes bid to solve international email privacy impasse”: Dustin Volz of Reuters has this report. According to the article, “If adopted, the measure could make a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last month moot that arose after Microsoft balked at handing over a criminal suspect’s emails stored in company servers in Ireland.”

Posted at 11:05 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Notebook: Sotomayor rapped for surfing the web.” Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press have this report.

Posted at 8:40 AM by Howard Bashman