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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

“Conservative Anger With Roberts Misreads His Record”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

Posted at 11:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Reporter Wins Appeal to Force Release of Surveillance Orders”: Maeve Allsup of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

And Sabrina Conza of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has a post titled “DC Circuit reverses district court ruling on unsealing electronic surveillance records; RCFP, BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold have been fighting for years for greater public access to electronic surveillance court records.”

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

Posted at 1:32 PM by Howard Bashman



Access online today’s rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court issued two rulings today.

1. Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, No. 19-267. Justice Clarence Thomas issued a concurring opinion, in which Justice Neil M. Gorsuch joined. And Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

2. And Justice Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, No. 19-431. Justice Alito issued a concurring opinion, in which Justice Gorsuch joined. Justice Elena Kagan issued an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Justice Stephen G. Breyer joined. And Justice Ginsburg issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Sotomayor joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

Posted at 10:01 AM by Howard Bashman