“After Supreme Court ruling, Texas bills would bring in $850 million in online sales tax; Lawmakers moved to apply the state’s sales tax to goods sold by remote vendors who don’t have physical operations in Texas”: Edgar Walters of The Texas Tribune has this report.
“Justice Clarence Thomas’ moment may finally have arrived”: Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press has this report.
“Investiture of Judge Ryan D. Nelson”: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently posted this video on YouTube.
“Military Judge in Trial of Sept. 11 Suspects Will Step Aside”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.
“White House lawyers aim to scrap the entire Affordable Care Act; One critic says that’s ‘legal nuttery'”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.
“Harvey Weinstein trial is causing a legal drama at Harvard”: Stephanie Ebbert of The Boston Globe has this report.
“Reaction swift, strong to death penalty repeal veto”: Kevin Landrigan of The Union Leader of Manchester, New Hampshire has this report.
In today’s edition of The Concord (N.H.) Monitor, Leah Willingham has a front page article headlined “Religious leaders, death penalty opponents keep hope in override of Sununu veto.”
And Holly Ramer of The Associated Press reports that “Governor vetoes death penalty abolishment; override likely.”
“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: The Perfect Opinion.” Aaron Nielson has this interesting post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.
“Appeals court rules Miami suit against banks over effect of predatory lending on tax base can continue”: John Breslin of the Florida Record has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued yesterday.
“Attorney for Dan Markel murder suspect asking for delay”: Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.
“Virginia Death Row Inmates Prevail in Fourth Circuit”: Brad Kutner of Courthouse News Service has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court Friday upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of Virginia death row inmates, finding that their living conditions amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.