“Deep inside a desolate courthouse, 12 jurors perform civic duty as coronavirus shuts down world around them”: Dan Morse of The Washington Post has this report.
Posted at 9:20 PM by Howard Bashman
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Friday, March 20, 2020
“Deep inside a desolate courthouse, 12 jurors perform civic duty as coronavirus shuts down world around them”: Dan Morse of The Washington Post has this report. Posted at 9:20 PM by Howard Bashman“Coughing Lawyers. Uneasy Jurors. Can Courts Work Under Coronavirus? The justice system is struggling to deal with the pandemic, turning to video arraignments and considering the release of older Rikers prisoners.” Alan Feuer, Nicole Hong, Benjamin Weiser, and Jan Ransom of The New York Times have this report. Posted at 9:04 PM by Howard Bashman“Arkansas Abortion Law Decision Will Wait for Supreme Court”: Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has an article that begins, “The fate of three Arkansas abortion laws won’t be decided until after the U.S. Supreme Court decides a case contesting a Louisiana law, which requires providers to obtain admitting privileges at local hospitals, a federal appeals court said.” Posted at 8:17 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court: Justices healthy and trying to stay that way.” Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report. Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Ginsburg, other justices ‘healthy’ as U.S. Supreme Court adjusts to coronavirus.” Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “All Nine Supreme Court Justices Healthy, Spokeswoman Says.” And Tyler Olson and Bill Mears of Fox News report that “Supreme Court says all justices are healthy amid coronavirus pandemic.” Posted at 8:10 PM by Howard Bashman“Lawyers, gunshop owners petition Pa. Supreme Court challenging Gov. Wolf’s coronavirus business closure order”: Matt Miller of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report. And Max Mitchell of The Legal Intelligencer reports that “Pa. Office of Counsel OK’s AOPC Guidance Saying Law Offices May Stay Open on Restricted Basis.” Posted at 8:00 PM by Howard Bashman“‘Kind of a mess’: D.C. Circuit arguments enter the coronavirus era; Random beeps, muddled voices, overtalking, dropped calls; It was all part of the experimental remote hearing set-up for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.” Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report. You can access the audio of today’s D.C. Circuit oral argument via this link. Posted at 6:00 PM by Howard Bashman“Why the Supreme Court Should Protect the CFPB’s Independence: I led the agency for six years; It must keep doing its important work of protecting consumers.” Richard Cordray has this essay online at The Atlantic. Posted at 4:24 PM by Howard Bashman“Judicial distancing: Mystery surrounds Supreme Court path forward amid coronavirus; Thirty-six cases are pending, including some of the most important to reach the justices in decades.” Pete Williams of NBC News has this report. Posted at 4:22 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court justices meet privately amid coronavirus outbreak”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report. Posted at 4:18 PM by Howard Bashman“Court Skeptical Trump Unlawfully Expanded Obamacare Alternative”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report. Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard BashmanThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has announced the cancellation of its 2020 Judicial Conference: I received notice of the cancellation by email as someone who had already registered to attend. The event was scheduled to take place in Philadelphia from May 13-15, 2020. Update: Relatedly, a helpful reader has emailed to draw to my attention that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday issued an announcement stating that its “May 15, 2020 Federal Circuit Judicial Conference Cancelled.” Posted at 10:10 AM by Howard Bashman |
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