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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

“Anti-vax doctors urge SCOTUS to open airwaves to medical disinformation; The doctors claim ‘scientific gobbledygook’ from medical associations has sidelined critical viewpoints”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can view the Application for Injunction at this link.

Posted at 4:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘A post-Chevron world’: DC Circuit wrestles with agency authority in fishing boat spat; After the Supreme Court overturned the longstanding doctrine of deference to agencies, it sent the case back to the D.C. Circuit to deal with the fallout.” Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit via this link.

Posted at 4:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“No, the Supreme Court Wouldn’t Tip the Election for Trump. Although most of them are conservative, the justices won’t be overtly partisan. They learned their lesson after Bush v. Gore.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

Also online at Bloomberg Opinion, law professor Stephen L. Carter has an essay titled “Post-Election Lawsuits Are Bad for Democracy; Litigating votes reinforces the view of whichever side loses that, somewhere along the way, they’ve been cheated.”

Posted at 4:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Biden’s $15 wage mandate for federal contractors struck down by court”: Howard Fischer of Arizona Capitol Times has this report.

Daniel Wiessner of Reuters reports that “Trump-appointed US judges say Biden can’t dictate federal contractor minimum wage.”

And Robert Iafolla of Bloomberg Law reports that “Biden’s $15 Federal Contractor Wage Rule Nixed by Ninth Cir.; Two Trump appointees squash Labor Department measure; Ninth Circuit case one of three challenges to wage boost.”

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 4:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Liberals Won’t Beat the Supreme Court With Legal Arguments Alone; Their interests are being litigated with deftness and aplomb, but more needs to be done outside the courtroom to start turning the tide”: Steve Kennedy has this essay online at The New Republic.

Posted at 4:25 PM by Howard Bashman