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Friday, February 3, 2023

“The Supreme Court Considers the Algorithm; A very weird Section 230 case is headed to the country’s highest court”: Kaitlyn Tiffany of The Atlantic has this report.

Posted at 9:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“North Carolina Supreme Court Grants Rehearing in Case Striking Down Congressional Districts as a Partisan Gerrymander, Potentially Mooting U.S. Supreme Court’s Independent State Legislature Case, Moore v. Harper”: Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

And in local coverage, Avi Bajpai of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina reports that “NC Supreme Court agrees to rehear voter ID, gerrymandering cases after majority flips.”

Posted at 8:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“Insurers Avoid Picking Up Businesses’ Covid-19 Pandemic Costs; Policyholders have been trying to collect on policies for ‘business interruption,’ but courts have so far sided with insurers that argue the policies are triggered by physical damage to property, not the presence of virus”: Richard Vanderford of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 8:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Spouses Cannot Stop Stomping On Ethical Rakes; Jane Roberts’s lengthy and lucrative legal recruiting career is the focus of new allegations about the Supreme Court’s unaddressed conflicts of interest”: Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

Posted at 4:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court of the United States will honor the memory of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday, March 17, with a meeting of the Supreme Court’s Bar, followed by a special sitting of the Court.” So beings a news release that the Public Information Office of the U.S. Supreme Court issued yesterday.

Posted at 1:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“The U.S. Must Resolve the Cases of the Guantanamo Detainees; If the 9/11 defendants were to plead guilty and accept a life sentence, justice will almost have been served”: Theodore B. Olson has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 1:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“Veterans Suing Over 3M Earplugs Want Bankruptcy Case Tossed; Plaintiffs say ruling on Johnson & Johnson talc case supports their opposition to 3M’s plan for settling claims”: Bob Tita of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 1:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Looting of Johnson & Johnson; The company loses in court because it was too generous to claimants”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 12:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“David vs Goliath: How Corporate Interests Dominate Civil Appellate Litigation & What We Can Do About It; A gap in access to expert appellate legal representation has enabled wealthy corporations to shape the legal landscape to their benefit; Plaintiff-side appellate litigators are trying to change that.” Simone Unwalla has this post at The [F]law.

Posted at 9:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“3M foes act fast to capitalize on J&J’s talc bankruptcy defeat”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

Posted at 8:55 AM by Howard Bashman