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Saturday, April 3, 2021

“Judicial Notice: April 3, 2021; Notable legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

Posted at 10:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Paul Feinman, First Openly Gay Judge on N.Y. High Court, Dies at 61; ‘I hope I add to the diversity of perspectives that the court considers,’ he said before being unanimously confirmed to the Court of Appeals in 2017”: Sam Roberts wrote this obituary that appeared in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Despite favorable high court ruling, Georgia’s water wars far from over”: Tamar Hallerman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

Posted at 8:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Defiant Federal Judge Calls Out the Media-Democrat Complex; One D.C. Circuit jurist pulled no punches as he sounded the alarm on ‘one-party control of the press and media'”: Andrew C. McCarthy has this essay online at National Review.

Posted at 8:11 PM by Howard Bashman



“Her Ballot Didn’t Count. She Faces 5 Years in Prison for Casting It. A Texas woman is appealing her conviction of voting illegally in the 2016 election. A lawyer says her prosecution ‘guts the entire purpose of the provisional ballot system.'” Christina Morales of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 7:09 PM by Howard Bashman