“New Judges Take Charge of Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo; The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.
“Luigi Mangione faces uphill battle after marathon evidence hearing; ‘I think the evidence comes in from the backpack,’ a former Brooklyn prosecutor said; ‘In a murder case like this, if there is any legal basis to allow that evidence in, a judge is going to find it’”: Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service has this report.
“TikTok Signs Agreements With Investors in Step Toward Avoiding a U.S. Ban; The Chinese-owned video app formalized commitments from the software giant Oracle and two investment firms as part of a deal to keep operating in the United States”: Emmett Lindner of The New York Times has this report.
“Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Mourns Passing of Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta”: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today.
“Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan found guilty of felony obstruction”: John Diedrich, Mary Spicuzza, and Hope Karnopp of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have this report.
And Patrick Marley of The Washington Post reports that “Judge in Wisconsin convicted of helping immigrant avoid arrest by ICE; The jury found Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of a felony, obstructing an official proceeding, but acquitted her of a misdemeanor.”
“The Judges Being Pizza Doxxed in My Dead Son’s Name”: U.S. District Judge Esther Salas (D.N.J.) has this Opinion Video online at The New York Times.
“Frustration mounts at Justice Department as it races to redact some Epstein files, sources say”: Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez of CNN have this report.
“Kristen Waggoner’s Legal Crusade for Conservative Christian Values; Her advocacy group has tallied 16 wins before the Supreme Court and is preparing for two transgender sports cases in January”: Maggie Severns and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have this report.
“Florida Supreme Court upholds death sentences by nonunanimous juries”: Kate Payne of The Associated Press has this report.
You can access here and here today’s per curiam decisions of the Supreme Court of Florida.
“Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett returns to Notre Dame Law for a wide-ranging fireside conversation with students”: Annika Johnson of the Notre Dame Law School has this report.
“Civility in the courtroom should be a model for our public life; The courts remind us that American justice is built on adversaries treating one another as colleagues, with respect and decency”: Justice P. Kevin Brobson of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has this essay online at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“The Supreme Court Generals Failed Their Troops This Year”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.