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Friday, October 19, 2018

“Swift Justice: New Appellate Judge Courts Trouble With Traffic Cops; Ryan Nelson has racked up more than a dozen speeding tickets; ‘maybe he will bring a little bit of empathy to recidivists.'” In Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, James V. Grimaldi and Alexa Corse will have a front page article that begins, “Ryan D. Nelson is a man in a hurry — really, in a hurry.”

And one week ago today, the Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a news release titled “Senate Confirms Idaho Attorney Ryan D. Nelson to Seat on Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.”

Posted at 9:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in Federal Court”: Anemona Hartocollis of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 9:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Some Of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have Private Twitter Accounts They Aren’t Sharing With The Public; Nominees have to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee about ‘published writings’; Some disclose Twitter and Facebook accounts; Others don’t”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 5:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“The GOP Doesn’t Trust Women: Not when it comes to sexual assault accusations and not with the decision to terminate a pregnancy.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 1:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Asian-American Harvard Applicants Saw Lowest Admit Rate of Any Racial Group From 1995 to 2013, Court Filings Show”: Shera S. Avi-Yonah and Molly C. McCafferty of The Harvard Crimson have this report.

Posted at 1:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court: Conservative groups see opportunities to cut regulation, shore up property rights.” Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

Posted at 1:05 PM by Howard Bashman



At 11:30 a.m. eastern time (8:30 a.m. pacific time) you can view live, online the Ninth Circuit oral argument in California v. Little Sisters of the Poor: On YouTube, via this link. The Ninth Circuit is providing free access to the briefs filed on appeal in this case via this link.

According to the Ninth Circuit’s oral argument calendar for this sitting, the three-judge panel assigned to hear and decide this case consists of Circuit Judge Susan P. Graber and Senior Circuit Judges J. Clifford Wallace and Andrew J. Kleinfeld.

Posted at 11:02 AM by Howard Bashman



“AP-NORC Poll: Just 1 in 4 thinks Kavanaugh told entire truth.” Alan Fram of The Associated Press has this report.

You can access the detailed poll results directly at this link, while additional background can be accessed here.

Posted at 10:36 AM by Howard Bashman