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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

“Salary History Ruling by Ninth Circuit on Track to Supreme Court”: Patrick Dorrian of Bloomberg Law has a report (subscription required for full access) that begins, “Fresno County, Calif., signaled its intent to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit’s Feb. 27 ruling that a worker’s prior salary history isn’t job-related and can never be considered by a new employer when setting starting pay.”

Posted at 11:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Planned Parenthood shooting: State Supreme Court considers whether property owners shoulder blame in mass shootings.” Shelly Bradbury of The Denver Post has this report.

Posted at 11:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals Court Affirms That the Trump Administration Has to Release the Unredacted Mueller Report; A liberal judge and a conservative judge team up to outvote a Trump judge”: Jeremy Stahl has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 9:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo is married in prison; No details released about bride or ceremony”: Tom Jackman of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 9:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Federal Judge Condemned the ‘Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy.’ It’s About Time.” Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And earlier today, at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Josh Blackman had a post titled “Judge Lynn Adelman (ED.Wi) on CJ Roberts’s Confirmation Hearing: ‘Masterpiece of Disingenuousness.’

Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman (E.D. Wis.) posted on SSRN an article titled “The Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy.”

Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Sotomayor recuses from one of two Supreme Court cases with consequences for electoral college”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Sotomayor to sit out Colorado ‘faithless electors’ Supreme Court case; The justice took herself off the case involving a challenge to a state law on how presidential electors must cast votes because of a personal friendship with one of the challengers.”

Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Justice Sonia Sotomayor won’t participate in Colorado faithless elector case.”

And Harper Neidig of The Hill reports that “Sotomayor recuses herself from case on ‘faithless electors.’

You can access at this link the letter that the Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court issued today to the parties in the case.

Posted at 9:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Last Meals on Death Row, a Peculiarly American Fascination; Researching his book on final-menu fantasies, the critic Jay Rayner came across an unsettling body of work about the choices of the condemned”: Jay Rayner, restaurant critic for The London Observer, has this article online at The New York Times. Rayner’s latest book is titled “My Last Supper: One Meal, A Lifetime In The Making.”

Posted at 1:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Department must disclose secret Mueller grand jury evidence to Congress, appeals court finds”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

Charlie Savage of The New York Times reports that “House Can See Mueller’s Secret Grand Jury Evidence, Appeals Court Rules; The decision is a victory for Congress’s power to obtain information for an impeachment inquiry; The Trump administration is likely to appeal.”

Brent Kendall and Byron Tau of The Wall Street Journal report that “Appeals Court Rules Congress Can Have Access to Mueller Grand-Jury Materials; House Democrats sought materials that were redacted in Mueller report on Russian interference in 2016 election.”

Eric Tucker of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: House entitled to Mueller probe grand jury testimony.”

Jan Wolfe of Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court says House panel can access Mueller report material.”

Bob Van Voris of Bloomberg News reports that “Congress Wins Ruling Giving it Access to Mueller Records.”

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico report that “Democrats should get Mueller evidence, judges rule; It’s a major win for House Democrats seeking to obtain more information from the Russia probe.”

And Harper Neidig of The Hill reports that “Appeals court rules DOJ must give sealed Mueller materials to Congress.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in which each of the three judges wrote an opinion, at this link.

Posted at 1:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court declines to hear closely watched bar association dues case”: James Varney of The Washington Times has this report.

Posted at 1:08 PM by Howard Bashman