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Sunday, December 13, 2020

“11th Circuit Won’t Reinstate Case Brought by School Shooting Survivors”: Kayla Goggin of Courthouse News Service has a report that begins, “The 11th Circuit on Friday rejected a civil rights lawsuit filed by survivors of the 2018 Parkland school shooting, ruling that school and county officials who failed to help students during the shooting did not have a ‘custodial duty’ to protect them.”

You can access Friday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.

Posted at 8:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“Religious Freedom and the FBI: Three Muslim men win at the Supreme Court under RFRA.” This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 8:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump’s Challenge Is Over; After losing at the Supreme Court, he has no legal alternatives and ought to concede”: This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 8:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“Man who, at 16, killed child in Franklin County in 1998 gets 50 years in prison”: In August 2019, Robert Patrick of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had an article that begins, “A man sentenced to life in federal prison in 2008 for murdering a 5-year-old Chicago-area boy in Franklin County in 1998 was re-sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison.”

On Friday, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued this decision rejecting the defendant’s challenge to the resentencing and its result.

Posted at 8:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations”: You can access the first episode of the “In Loco Parent(i)s” podcast, featuring Karen and Steve Vladeck, via this link.

Posted at 3:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Allies Eye Long-Shot Election Reversal in Congress, Testing Pence; Some House Republicans plan to try to use Congress’s tallying of electoral results on Jan. 6 to tip the election to President Trump; The attempt will put Republicans in a pinch”: Nicholas Fandos and Michael S. Schmidt of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 1:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Liberals Were Right to Fear the Supreme Court’s Election Intervention; The justices’ decision not to wade into a sloppy coup attempt is no victory for rule of law”: Jay Willis has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 1:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“After Supreme Court dismisses Texas case, Trump says his efforts to challenge election results are ‘not over'”: Felicia Sonmez of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 1:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judges may reinstate foreign agent case against Flynn partner; The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Friday on the government’s bid to revive a pair of guilty verdicts a federal court jury returned last year against Bijan Rafiekian”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report on an oral argument (link to oral argument audio via YouTube) that occurred Friday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Posted at 11:28 AM by Howard Bashman