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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Ninth Circuit grants rehearing en banc in anti-slap case: You can access Friday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link.

This blog’s earlier coverage of the original divided three-judge panel’s ruling can be accessed here.

And in news coverage of that earlier, now-vacated, ruling, Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle had an article headlined “Conviction overturned: She slapped him on an airplane but case was prosecuted in wrong jurisdiction.”

Posted at 9:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“AP Exclusive: Computer plate umps allowed in new labor deal.” Ben Walker and Ronald Blum of The Associated Press have this report. The article mentions Atlantic League umpire Brian deBrauwere, whose last mention here at “How Appealing” was in this post from September 3, 2009.

Posted at 8:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“In a first, appeals court raises privacy questions over government searches for Americans’ emails”: Ellen Nakashima of The Washington Post has this report.

Mark Hosenball of Reuters has a report headlined “Warrant not always needed for ‘inadvertent’ NSA surveillance of Americans: U.S. court.”

And at Techdirt, Tim Cushing has a post titled “Second Circuit Says Warrantless Backdoor Searches Of NSA Collections Might Violate The Fourth Amendment.”

You can access Wednesday’s partially redacted ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

Posted at 8:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“Libertarian Party tells Supreme Court state law keeps its candidates off ballot”: Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star has this report.

Posted at 7:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“A fair trial in the Senate: Senators and the chief justice must honor their duties under the Constitution.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

Posted at 7:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear a Crete man’s immigration case”: Lori Pilger of The Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star has this report.

Posted at 3:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Day at the Abortion Clinic at the Center of the Supreme Court Case; Louisiana clinic faces busy Saturdays, with patients and protesters who often drive for hours”: Jennifer Calfas of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 3:44 PM by Howard Bashman