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Monday, October 15, 2018

“U.S. appeals court expresses concern about sting operations that overwhelmingly target blacks and Latinos”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has an article that begins, “A federal appeals court made it easier Monday for people snagged in ‘reverse sting’ operations to seek evidence that the government targeted blacks and Latinos. The 2-1 decision by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals portrayed a troubling effort by federal law enforcement to lure blacks and Latinos to participate in purported robberies of fictitious stash houses.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 10:52 PM by Howard Bashman



Fifth Circuit grants rehearing en banc to consider whether double jeopardy requires the invalidation of Louisiana state court second-degree murder conviction: You can access last Friday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link. Lisa Addison of The American Press of Lake Charles, Louisiana has this report on the grant of rehearing.

The unanimous original three-judge panel’s now-vacated ruling that set aside the second-degree murder conviction based on double jeopardy can be accessed here.

Posted at 10:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Underlying Attack in the Harvard Admissions Lawsuit”: Jeffrey Toobin has this post online at The New Yorker.

Posted at 9:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Harvard Admissions Chief Defends Policies in First Day of Trial; Plaintiffs use internal documents to show different test scores used to target different ethnicities for recruitment”: Nicole Hong and Melissa Korn will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Also in Tuesday’s edition of that newspaper, columnist William McGurn will have an op-ed titled “What Hillsdale Can Teach Harvard: Give up federal dollars, and you can run your admissions the way you want.”

Posted at 8:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Packing the Supreme Court Is a Terrible Idea: Democrats paid a political cost for decades after F.D.R. tried it in the 1930s. They probably would again.” Julian E. Zelizer has this essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 8:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“American Bar Association drops review of Kavanaugh”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has a report that begins, “The American Bar Association will no longer review its ‘well qualified’ rating of Justice Brett Kavanaugh now that the Senate confirmed him, an ABA official told CNN Monday.”

Posted at 6:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Lawyer says Harvard ‘let the wolf of racial bias in through the front door'”: Deirdre Fernandes of The Boston Globe has this report.

Posted at 2:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Harvard Admissions Trial Starts Today. Here’s What You Need to Know.” Delano R. Franklin and Samuel W. Zwickel of The Harvard Crimson have this report. The newspaper also has a related article headlined “Hundreds Gather for Dueling Demonstrations Ahead of Harvard Admissions Trial.”

And in other coverage, The Crimson has an article headlined “Meet Three of the Lawyers Defending Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admissions Policies.”

Shera S. Avi-Yonah reports that “Harvard Admissions Dean Emails ‘Key Points’ of School’s ‘Narrative’ to Alumni Interviewers Ahead of Trial.”

Jonah S. Berger reports that “UC Defends Affirmative Action, Calls for Changes to Admissions Process.”

And in commentary, Elyse D. Pham has an essay titled “Fellow Asian-Americans, Back Off of Affirmative Action.”

Posted at 1:35 PM by Howard Bashman



“Does Harvard Treat Asian-American Applicants Unfairly? The Case Goes To Trial.” Kirk Carapezza had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Eric Murphy — Nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

Posted at 1:11 PM by Howard Bashman



Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

And in Brown v. United States, No. 17-9276, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a dissent, in which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined, from the denial of certiorari.

Posted at 9:58 AM by Howard Bashman



“His Case Made It to the Supreme Court. He Didn’t Have to Look Far for a Lawyer.” In Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times, Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column. It begins, “Theodore H. Frank is familiar with the adage that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. But later this month, he will stand before the Supreme Court to argue his own case.”

Posted at 8:40 AM by Howard Bashman