“Gov. Scott appeals judge’s ruling on voting rights for felons; He had an April 26 deadline to come up with a new way to restore voting rights for felons”: Lawrence Mower of The Tampa Bay Times has this report.
Arian Campo-Flores of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Florida Officials Appeal Court Order on Felon Voting Rights; The state has nearly 1.7 million people who have lost their voting rights because of felony convictions.”
Gary Fineout of The Associated Press reports that “Florida challenges order to make voting rights changes.”
Jim Saunders of News Service of Florida reports that “Florida appeals U.S. judge’s ruling on restoring felons’ voting rights.”
And Sam Levine of HuffPost reports that “Florida Gov. Rick Scott To Fight Court Order To Have New System For Restoring Voting Rights; A federal judge ruled in January that Scott has until April 26 to announce a new state plan for restoring voting rights to former felons.”
“Class action objectors defend 9th Circuit’s infamous Hyundai ruling”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.
“Court rules in favor of Pinky the dog, says Des Moines ordinance too vague”: Stephen Gruber-Miller of The Des Moines Register has this report.
And David Pitt of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Part of Des Moines vicious dog law unconstitutional.”
You can access today’s 3-to-2 ruling of the Court of Appeals of Iowa at this link.
“Neil Gorsuch’s Legacy Is Already Devastating: His nomination fight paved the way for a flood of hyperpartisan lower court judges.” Yuvraj Joshi has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“R.I. Supreme Court holds session at Lincoln High School, hears common-law marriage case”: Katie Mulvaney of The Providence (R.I.) Journal has this report.
“Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and Supreme Court Justice Thomas Lee say they broke no ethics rules by using Utah Jazz owner’s front-row seats”: Lee Davidson of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.
“On the Passing of a Noble Jurist: Judge Stephen Reinhardt, 1931–2018.” Online at City Journal, Heather Mac Donald has a post that begins, “I was the ‘clerk who had gone bad,’ U.S. Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt used to say to me (and probably say about me as well).”
“The Exile: In Memory of Judge Stephen Reinhardt.” Ben Wizner has this post at the ACLU’s “Speak Freely” blog.
“Delaying ruling on partisan gerrymanders? Pros and Cons.” Lyle Denniston has this post at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.
“The Scalia Problem: It Wasn’t Originalism or Textualism — It Was Trumpism; A review of Richard L. Hasen’s The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption.” Simon Lazarus has this book review online at The American Prospect.
“John Thompson vs. American Justice”: The New Yorker has posted this podcast online.
“This solution to gerrymandering is worse than the problem”: Charles Lane has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Liberal Judge Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat, Buoying Democrats”: Monica Davey has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
Harry Enten of CNN has a news analysis headlined “Big win by liberals in Wisconsin is bad news for GOP and Scott Walker.”
Amy Lieu of Fox News reports that “Wisconsin’s GOP governor warns of ‘Blue Wave’ as liberal wins court seat.”
Amanda Terkel of HuffPost reports that “Democrats Score Big Win In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race.”
And from BuzzFeed News, Katherine Miller and Salvador Hernandez report that “A Liberal Judge Has Defeated Her Conservative Opponent In A Closely Watched Wisconsin Supreme Court Election.” And Molly Hensley-Clancy and Darren Sands have an article headlined “A Liberal Judge Won In Wisconsin — And That’s A Bad Sign For Republicans This Year.”
“‘Trailblazing’ Utah Supreme Court justice to address Westminster College’s graduating class”: Marjorie Cortez of The Deseret News has this report.
“Don’t let politicians choose their voters: The Supreme Court should end the anti-democratic practice of political gerrymandering.” USA Today has published this editorial.
“Candid conversation with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor inspires students”: Vanderbilt University has issued this news release.
“A year in, Trump’s pick makes waves at high court”: Lydia Wheeler of The Hill has this report.
“Asylum seekers in limbo as Nauru scraps appeals to High Court of Australia”: Michaela Whitbourn of The Sydney Morning Herald has this report.
And Melissa Clarke of Sydney, Australia’s ABC News reports that “Former chief justice slams Australian Government as Nauru abolishes highest legal appeal process.”
“Rebecca Dallet beats Michael Screnock in race for Wisconsin Supreme Court”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.
Molly Beck of The Wisconsin State Journal reports that “Rebecca Dallet wins 10-year term on Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
And Scott Bauer of The Associated Press reports that “Liberal Dallet easily takes Wisconsin Supreme Court race.”
“Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Vanderbilt talk touched on Clarence Thomas, Bob Dylan”: Adam Tamburin of The Tennessee has this report.
And although the video of that visit does not yet appear to be available online, you can view on YouTube the video of Justice Sotomayor’s February visit to the Emory School of Law.
“Annual Survey of American Law honors Chief Judge Robert Katzmann”: NYU School of Law has posted this video on YouTube.
“April 3, 2018 Wisconsin Election Results”: Via WisconsinVote.org, at this link.
“Bikini baristas hit with court brief demanding they cover up”: Lucia Suarez Sang of Fox News has this report.
And at Reason’s “Hit & Run” blog, Scott Shackford has a post titled “Can You Guess How Much Butt This Town Will Let You Show? Everett, Washington, continues to wage war against scantily clad ‘bikini baristas.’”
Yesterday evening, I had this post about Brief for Appellant filed last Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
“Appeals court: Inmate shortchanged at lunch can sue for retaliation.” Paul Egan of The Detroit Free Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today.
As a reader of this blog noted by email, a noteworthy aspect of the decision’s “analysis appears on pages 8 to 9, where the Court recognized a 4-2 circuit split and agreed with the majority in rejecting the so-called ‘checkmate doctrine,’ which holds that a prisoner’s First Amendment retaliation claim is categorically foreclosed whenever the prison finds the prisoner guilty of misconduct at an in-house prison hearing. Before this case, the Sixth Circuit had embraced the checkmate doctrine in more than a dozen unpublished opinions. It has now rejected the doctrine in a published opinion.”
“Lawyers for Eves, LePage make their cases in federal court; Both sides present oral arguments to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals about the governor’s right to withhold funding to a charter school because of a hiring dispute involving Eves”: Edward D. Murphy of The Portland (Me.) Press Herald has this report.
And Alanna Durkin Richer of The Associated Press reports that “Lawyers spar over case accusing Maine governor of blackmail.”
You can access via this link the audio of today’s en banc oral argument of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
“PACER Fees Shouldn’t Fund Most Court Tech, Judge Rules”: Britain Eakin of Courthouse News Service has this report.
“Richard Hasen’s Jumble of Confusions — Part 3”: Ed Whelan has this post at National Review’s “Bench Memos” blog.
“U.S. Supreme Court Says Tribune Creditor Suit May Be Revived”: Greg Stohr and Dawn McCarty of Bloomberg News have this report.
And Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court suggests lower courts reconsider Tribune Co dispute.”
You can access at this link today’s statement of Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas respecting the petition for certiorari.
“Microsoft calls for dismissal of U.S. Supreme Court privacy fight”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.
“Duty and Tradition: The US Solicitor General and His Principal Deputy are Law School Alumni — and They Represent the History and Shared Values Between the Two Institutions.” Becky Beaupre Gillespie of the University of Chicago Law School has this report, along with an article headlined “Law School Alumni Experience the SG’s Office as Bristow Fellows.”
“Stephen Reinhardt, Liberal Lion of Federal Court, Dies at 87”: This obituary, written by Sam Roberts, appears in today’s edition of The New York Times.
“‘A friendly vote on the court’: How Greg Abbott’s former employees could help Texas from the federal bench; As a longtime aide to Greg Abbott, Andrew Oldham has helped Texas fight the federal government; If he’s confirmed to the federal bench, he could rule on the same type of cases”: Emma Platoff of The Texas Tribune has this report.
“Why the Supreme Court Reviews So Many Qualified Immunity Cases; Here’s a theory, at least”: Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
“The Supreme Court may hand an enduring advantage to the Republican Party this term”: Harold Meyerson has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.
“The ‘Guarantee’ Clause”: Law professor Ryan C. Williams has posted this article on SSRN.
