“Supreme Court Allows Street Preacher’s Lawsuit; Gabriel Olivier was arrested after violating an ordinance restricting demonstrations outside an amphitheater in Brandon, Miss.” Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.
Julian Mark of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court sides with antiabortion activist in free speech case; The Supreme Court ruled an antiabortion activist can challenge a law blocking protests outside of a designated area.”
And Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “A street preacher whose group yelled ‘whores’ gets a Supreme Court win; The new ruling could make it easier to challenge not just restrictions on public demonstrations but also local laws governing hunting, sleeping in public places and more.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.
“Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett at the Library: ‘Respect the law.’” Maria Peña has this post at the blog of the Library of Congress.
“The Supreme Court Is About To Decide The Fate Of Millions Of Votes; If Mississippi loses this fight at the Supreme Court, it could mean major changes to how mail-in ballots are counted everywhere”: Brandi Buchman of HuffPost has this report.
And in commentary, Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “Late Mail Ballots at the Supreme Court; Election Day is set by federal law; Is that also an absentee deadline?“
“Schools hiding children’s ‘transitioning’ violate parental rights; A case involving a Maine student given a chest binder at school may be headed to the Supreme Court”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Former CT Supreme Court chief justice and his law partners: No ethics rules broken in their case.” Edmund H. Mahony of The Hartford Courant has this report.
“Maine lobsterman asks US Supreme Court to block GPS boat tracking; The legal challenge claims 24/7 surveillance of the lobster fleet is a warrantless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment”: Penelope Overton of The Portland Press Herald has this report.
“Inside the court: Chief Justice Roberts discusses 20 years on the Supreme Court.” Avery Ruxer Franklin of Rice University has this report.
“‘Embodied the American dream’: Sandra Day O’Connor remembered at Supreme Court.” Zach Schonfeld of The Hill has this report.
You can access the two transcripts of yesterday’s bar memorial here and here.
“Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor Did Not Attend the Same Princeton”: Peter S. Canellos has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
“A Judge’s Vulgar Dissent Is a Loss for Everyone”: Online at Bloomberg Opinion, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay that begins, “A recent opinion by a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is a contender for the most vulgar piece of judicial writing in the 300-plus-year history of recorded judicial decisions in the English language.”
“Appeals Court Revives Claims Against Activist Over Protest”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has a report (subscription required for full access) that begins, “A federal appeals court revived a Louisiana police officer’s lawsuit against a civil rights activist over injuries the officer suffered at a Baton Rouge protest, prompting one judge to warn the decision ‘imperils’ free speech rights.”
You can access yesterday’s decision of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.