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Monday, July 21, 2025

“Even If Harvard Wins This Court Case, the Trump Fight Won’t Go Away; Legal analysts say the school presents a strong case but the president is already threatening to appeal”: Jess Bravin and Sara Randazzo of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Border Wall Case May Send Rare Constitutional Test to High Court; Groups see nondelegation doctrine as means to block border wall; Recent Supreme Court opinions suggest justices could wade in”: Taylor Mills of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Posted at 9:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Hewitt v. United States: The Linguistics and Analysis Are Dubious. The Result Is Right. An earlier version of § 924(c) reform legislation suggests a flawed majority opinion.” Jonathan J. Wroblewski has this post at the “Sentencing Matters Substack.”

Posted at 9:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Return of J. Rufus Wallingford and the Next Financial Crisis; Will the expansion of ‘alternative investments’ lead to the next financial crisis?” George Liebmann has this essay online at The American Spectator.

Posted at 9:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Conviction Reversed in Etan Patz Case That Put Focus on Missing Children; Pedro Hernandez, a former bodega stock clerk, had confessed years after the 1979 crime to luring Etan Patz, 6, into a basement in SoHo; The case shook New York City”: Hurubie Meko and Jonah E. Bromwich of The New York Times have this report.

And Joseph Pisani of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Man Convicted in Etan Patz Murder Should Be Retried or Released, Appeals Court Rules; Pedro Hernandez was sentenced to 25 years to life after confessing to 1979 killing of 6-year-old first-grader.”

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

Posted at 9:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump. A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him. Solo practitioners, former government litigators and small law offices stepped up to help challenge the Trump administration’s agenda in court after the White House sought to punish many big firms.” Elizabeth Williamson of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 8:47 PM by Howard Bashman