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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

“Seattle media companies appeal police protest subpoena to Washington state Supreme Court”: Mike Reicher of The Seattle Times has an article that begins, “A group of news outlets appealed to the Washington Supreme Court Tuesday to block a Seattle Police Department subpoena seeking unpublished images of police protesters.”

Posted at 11:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Maine Supreme Court questions Melville Fuller statue outside Kennebec courthouse; The monument honors the Augusta-born former chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was part of the majority in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that maintained racial segregation with the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine”: Rob Montana of The Kennebec (Me.) Journal has this report.

Posted at 11:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Florida, Felons and Judicial Bullying; Democratic Senators try to intimidate federal judges into recusing”: The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

Posted at 8:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge thanks and sentences acclaimed GA Tech coronavirus researcher”: Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article that begins, “For months, top U.S. health officials have relied upon Georgia Tech professor Eva Lee’s computer modeling prowess in trying to bring the coronavirus under control and prepare for the best way to distribute an eventual vaccine. But during an emotional hearing on Wednesday, Lee officially became a convicted felon for making false statements regarding a National Science Foundation grant.”

Posted at 8:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Fandom Around R.B.G. Is Out of Step With Reality”: Amanda Hess will have this essay in this upcoming Sunday’s issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Posted at 8:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ninth Circuit Review — Reviewed: Nationwide Preliminary Injunctions before CA9”: William Yeatman has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Posted at 2:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Missing Decisions”: Law professor Merritt McAlister has posted this interesting article online at SSRN.

The article’s abstract begins, “Significant numbers of federal appellate merits terminations — those decisions resolving appeals and other proceedings on the merits — are missing from Westlaw and Lexis, the leading commercial legal databases.”

Posted at 2:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Few More Thoughts on Supreme Court Secrecy”: Daniel Epps has this post at “Dorf on Law,” a blog to which he now will be contributing.

Posted at 2:05 PM by Howard Bashman