“Tennessee’s 48-hour abortion waiting period upheld by full U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals”: Mariah Timms of The Tennessean has this report.
Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Federal appeals court upholds Tennessee law requiring 48-hour wait before abortions.”
Kimberlee Kruesi of The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court upholds Tennessee’s abortion waiting-period.”
Brendan Pierson of Reuters reports that “Tennessee can enforce abortion waiting-period law, 6th Circuit rules.”
And Kevin Koeninger of Courthouse News Service reports that “Full Sixth Circuit upholds Tennessee abortion waiting period; The court’s majority found a Tennessee law that requires women to wait two days before they can get an abortion is not a substantial obstacle to most women seeking the procedure.”
You can access today’s 9-to-7 en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.
“It is time for Congress to act again to protect the right to vote”: U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“L.A. County court to staff: Get vaccinated or get fired.” Matt Hamilton of The Los Angeles Times has an article that begins, “Los Angeles County’s Superior Court, the nation’s largest trial court system, told employees Thursday they must promptly get fully vaccinated once a coronavirus vaccine receives final government approval, or face termination.”
“The Supreme Court Might Strike Down Biden’s Eviction Ban. It Shouldn’t.” Law professor Adam Winkler has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
“Biden taps VT Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson as nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals”: Ethan Bakuli of The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press has this report.
“Biden’s New Second Circuit, District Picks Include LGBT Firsts”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has this report.
And Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost reports that “Biden Includes Historic LGBTQ Pick In Latest Judicial Nominees; If confirmed, Beth Robinson would become the first openly LGBTQ woman to ever serve on any U.S. appeals court.”
The White House today issued a news release titled “President Biden Names Sixth Round of Judicial Nominees.”
“He is one of only 39 detainees left at Guantanamo. Once tortured, prisoner’s case is a test of larger political realities at play.” Daniel A. Medina of CNN has this report.
“Direct purchaser class decertified in Zetia pay-for-delay suit”: Brendan Pierson of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued yesterday.
At issue in the case is whether a class consisting of 35 potential plaintiffs satisfies the numerosity requirement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(a)(1), governing the certification of class actions.
“Judge Theodore McKee Taking Senior Status, Giving Biden His First Vacancy on 3rd Circuit; McKee was nominated to the judiciary in 1994 by former President Bill Clinton”: Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal has this report.
“Appellate judges uphold Maryland beach town’s topless ban”: Matthew Barakat of The Associated Press has this report.
And Brad Kutner of Courthouse News Service reports that “Fourth Circuit upholds Ocean City ban on topless women; While a three-judge panel upheld the city’s ordinance banning female toplessness at local beaches, a concurring opinion questions the precedent the court admitted it was bound by.”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.
“En banc 9th Circuit takes up certification of classes with uninjured plaintiffs”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.
“Real estate groups ask federal court to block enforcement of CDC’s new eviction moratorium”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.
Mark Sherman, Jessica Gresko, and Joshua Boak of The Associated Press report that “Biden’s new evictions moratorium faces legality doubts.”
And Ariane de Vogue of CNN has a report headlined “What the Supreme Court and lower courts have (and have not) said about the eviction moratorium.”
“How Biden’s Supreme Court throwdown could backfire: With candor he might come to regret, the president acknowledged the court’s conservative majority could reject his revised eviction ban.” Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.
