“Brad Schimel won’t continue as U.S. attorney in Milwaukee”: John Diedrich and Jessie Opoien of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have this report.
And Celine Castronuovo and Seth Stern of Bloomberg Law report that “Judges Decline to Extend US Attorney’s Tenure in Wisconsin.”
“Federal Public Defenders Launch Hub for Supreme Court Cases”: Jordan Fischer of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Bondi Is Said to Move to Military Housing Because of Threats; The attorney general relocated from a Washington apartment to a base in the area within the past month, according to people familiar with the situation”: Glenn Thrush of The New York Times has this report.
“Ed Martin faces disciplinary proceedings over actions as D.C. U.S. attorney; The senior Justice Department official faces disciplinary proceedings over a letter he sent to Georgetown University’s law school about its DEI practices”: Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this report.
And Chris Strohm and Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News report that “Trump DOJ Official Faces Disciplinary Proceedings by DC Bar.”
“Senators probe birthright citizenship as Supreme Court gears up to tackle Trump executive order; The justices on April 1 will hear oral arguments in a landmark case in which the high court will decide whether it is constitutional for the president to block the children of immigrants without legal status from claiming U.S. citizenship”: Benjamin S. Weiss of Courthouse News Service has this report.
“Pa. Superior Court Narrowly Affirms $18M Award; The judges, in three dissenting opinions, remained split on how to apply a 1981 rule that allows courts to impose liability on companies that acquire another manufacturer’s product line”: Tristin Hoffman of The Legal Intelligencer has this report.
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania‘s en banc decision, which issued last Thursday, consisted of an opinion announcing the judgment of the court, two concurring opinions (here and here), an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, a dissenting opinion, and a dissenting statement.
I represent the plaintiffs on appeal in this matter. This is the first Pa. Superior Court case that I have briefed and argued in which en banc reargument was ordered before any decision issued from the original three-judge panel.
“Justice Amy Coney Barrett talks about the Supreme Court as dozens protest outside theater; Barrett: ‘You want a judge of strong character because I think you need to have a judge that can withstand pressure from the outside.’” Gregory R.C. Hasman of The Albuquerque Journal has this report.
And Margaret O’Hara of The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that “Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces supporters, protesters at Santa Fe’s Lensic.”
“Alabama Governor Spares Death Row Inmate Who Didn’t Pull the Trigger; The move by Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, is extremely rare; The inmate, Charles Burton, was scheduled to die even though the gunman’s sentence had been commuted years ago”: Eduardo Medina of The New York Times has this report.
And Abigail Brooks, Dan Slepian, and Jackie Montalvo of NBC News report that “Alabama governor commutes death sentence of man who didn’t kill anyone; Charles ‘Sonny’ Burton, 75, was set to be executed Thursday after being sentenced under a legal doctrine known as felony murder.”