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Thursday, November 18, 2021

“Can Public Money Go to Religious Schools? A Divisive Supreme Court Case Awaits.” Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report.

Posted at 9:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“How badly do the Supreme Court’s conservatives want to overturn Roe v. Wade?” Columnist Paul Waldman has this essay online at The Washington Post.

Posted at 9:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Florist who refused to make an arrangement for a same-sex couple drops Supreme Court challenge”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

Posted at 9:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Shows Interest in Term Limits for Justices; But in newly released materials, members of the panel acknowledged ‘profound disagreement’ over the wisdom of adding more justices to the court”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 9:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Crypto Group Is Outbid in Auction of Rare Edition of the Constitution; Private collector beat out a group of cryptocurrency investors who raised more than $40 million to buy the historic document”: Kelly Crow of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 8:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Tries to Block New York Times’s Coverage of Project Veritas; The state court order, which The Times said it would immediately oppose, raised concerns from First Amendment advocates”: Michael M. Grynbaum of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 7:53 PM by Howard Bashman



“Divided appeals court says videos of 2010 trial on same-sex marriage ban can be made public”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Mike Scarcella of Reuters has a report headlined ““Video of landmark gay marriage trial can be released: 9th Circuit.”

And Nicholas Iovino of Courthouse News Service reports that “Ninth Circuit OKs unsealing videos from landmark gay marriage trial; A divided Ninth Circuit panel found proponents of a 2008 ballot measure that banned gay marriage in California failed to explain how the unsealing of trial videos would cause them harm.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 7:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Biden Vaccine Mandate Might Get Wrecked By Conservative Judges; How the workplace safety of millions of people came down to the unlucky bounce of a few ping-pong balls”: Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

Posted at 1:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justices as Speechmakers: Recent sharp-edged speeches by members of the high court have been controversial, but history shows that speechmaking by justices is nothing new.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”

Posted at 1:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Authenticity and Finding Your Place in the Law | Karen Vladeck”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Texas Appellate Law Podcast” with Todd Smith and Jody Sanders via this link.

Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“What Happens When a Court Goes Rogue?” Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

The essay begins, “A rogue court is on the loose in the country. No, not the Supreme Court — not yet, anyway. It’s the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and it’s out of control.”

Posted at 12:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Will Sixth Circuit Take OSHA ETS Case En Banc? A petition has been filed asking the full court to hear the legal challenges to the OSHA COVID-19 vaccinate-or-test mandate.” Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

You can view the Petition for Initial Hearing En Banc at this link.

Posted at 9:50 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Federalist Society’s newest enemy: Corporate America; America’s most powerful legal organization has lost faith in the market’s power to impose its values on the nation.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

Posted at 9:40 AM by Howard Bashman