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Friday, August 2, 2019

“Court Upholds Handcuffing of 2nd Grader Who Resisted Being Led to School Office”: Mark Walsh has this post at the “School Law” blog of Education Week.

And in commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Appeals Court: Officer Was ‘Reasonable’ to Handcuff a Sobbing 7-Year-Old; Another entry in the parade of perverse decisions protecting reckless and brutal policing.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 10:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Privacy Groups Aghast Over Warrant Tied to Link Click”: Brad Kutner of Courthouse News Service has an article that begins, “A Fourth Circuit ruling that backs the search of a house for child porn based solely on evidence that its inhabitant clicked a single link in the dark reaches of the web is stirring outrage.”

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.

Posted at 9:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Green Light on the Border Wall as Trump’s Supreme Court Victories Mount”: Cristian Farias has this post online at The New Yorker.

Posted at 7:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Democrats Still Haven’t Learned Their Lesson About the Courts: Even after Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, the presidential candidates still don’t have a plan for Mitch McConnell.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman