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Monday, September 2, 2019

“Fliers can sue over airport screener abuses: U.S. appeals court.” Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.

Robert Burnson of Bloomberg News reports that “Travelers Get Green Light From Court to Sue Airport Screeners.”

Alexandra Jones of Courthouse News Service has an article headlined “No Immunity for TSA Officers Sued Over Airport Arrest.”

And at his “View from the Wing” blog, Gary Leff has a post titled “In Three States You Can Now Sue If TSA Employees Intentionally Harm You.”

You can access Friday’s 9-to-4 en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

Posted at 10:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘The Supreme Court Is Not Well. And the People Know It.’ A new guns case reveals that the once-noble institution has died, and we’re left working with its corpse.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 9:22 AM by Howard Bashman



“Blackbeard’s Ship Heads to Supreme Court in a Battle Over Another Sort of Piracy; The justices will decide whether an underwater videographer can sue North Carolina for posting his images of the wreckage of a sunken pirate ship”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 9:18 AM by Howard Bashman