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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

“Appeals court rebukes federal government in ‘no-fly’ case, ruling it owes millions in legal fees”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Stanford graduate student mistakenly put on no-fly list gets redemption.”

And Helen Christophi of Courthouse News Service reports that “Ninth Circuit Reverses Too-Small Award for Attorneys on ‘No-Fly’ Case.”

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

Posted at 10:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Lower Court Split on School Board Prayer May Hasten Supreme Court Review”: Mark Walsh has this post at the “School Law” blog of Education Week.

Posted at 10:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Activists Brace For 2019 Abortion-Rights Battles In The States”: Sarah McCammon had this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Posted at 9:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Blackburn, Ernst become first GOP women to serve on Senate Judiciary”: Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico has this report.

Posted at 8:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“Victorious RBG: A portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a young woman; ‘On the Basis of Sex’ is a bracing story of gender equality in America.” Steven Mazie has this movie review online at The Economist.

Posted at 5:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Will The Supreme Court Fast-Track Cases Involving Trump? One case is already on the docket.” Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux has this post at FiveThirtyEight.

Posted at 3:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ann Hopkins: The accountant who struck a blow against gender stereotyping.” Emily Bazelon had this reminiscence in “The Lives They Lived 2018” feature in this past Sunday’s issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Posted at 3:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Conquerors of the Courts: Forget Trump’s Supreme Court picks; The Federalist Society’s impact on the law goes much deeper.” David Montgomery has this article online at The Washington Post Magazine.

Posted at 3:39 PM by Howard Bashman



“Article III Standing in Frank v. Gaos; Why I think there is standing: Think property, not privacy.” Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 8:30 AM by Howard Bashman