“A Supreme Court Showdown Could Shrink Unions’ Power”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.
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“A Supreme Court Showdown Could Shrink Unions’ Power”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Posted at 5:54 PM by Howard Bashman“Prisoners Lose Out in High Court Attorneys’ Fees Battle”: Kimberly Robinson and Madison Alder of Bloomberg BNA have this report. Posted at 2:46 PM by Howard Bashman“Argument analysis: What makes wiretap orders ‘insufficient’?” Richard M. Re has this guest post at “SCOTUSblog.” Posted at 2:44 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court Clinic’s Efforts Culminate as Heytens Argues City of Hays; Law Student Who Worked on Case Watches Arguments Play Out”: University of Virginia School of Law student Rebecca Sciarrino has this report. Posted at 2:30 PM by Howard Bashman“How Don McGahn Has Become the Worst White House Counsel Ever”: Cristian Farias has this post at the “Daily Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine. Posted at 2:26 PM by Howard Bashman“U.S. Supreme Court again asked to stop Pennsylvania voting map”: Lyle Denniston has this post at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center. Posted at 2:24 PM by Howard Bashman“Unions sound alarm as Supreme Court takes up fees fight; Gorsuch seen as pivotal vote”: Bill Mears of FoxNews.com has this report. And at ThinkProgress, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “Neil Gorsuch is about to pay back the people who got him a sweet job in Washington; Republicans are poised to use their stolen Supreme Court seat to break public sector unions.” Posted at 10:40 AM by Howard Bashman“Justices Air Differences on Value of Congressional Reports; High court appears as divided as ever on giving weight to legislative history”: Todd Ruger of Roll Call has this report. Posted at 10:34 AM by Howard Bashman“An Essay Concerning Some Problems with the Constitutional-Doubt Canon”: Attorney Benjamin M. Flowers has this essay at the Washington and Lee Law Review Online. Posted at 10:28 AM by Howard Bashman“The Travel Ban, Article II, and the Nondelegation Doctrine”: Josh Blackman has this post at the “Lawfare” blog. Posted at 10:24 AM by Howard Bashman“SCOTUS cites CGEL (props to Justice Gorsuch and the Supreme Court Library)”: Neal Goldfarb has this post at his blog, “LAWnLinguistics.” Posted at 10:22 AM by Howard Bashman“What Clarence Thomas Gets Wrong About the Second Amendment: The justice’s consistent pro-gun arguments fail to reconcile rights with their lived consequences.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic. Posted at 8:54 AM by Howard BashmanWednesday, February 21, 2018
“9th Circ. Finds Receipt Suit Falls Short Under Spokeo”: Melissa Daniels of Law360.com has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today. Posted at 10:58 PM by Howard Bashman“Kansas can’t cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood, appeals court rules”: Bryan Lowry of The Kansas City Star has this report. Allison Kite of The Topeka Capital-Journal has an article headlined “Federal court: Kansas can’t sever Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood.” And Jon Parton of Courthouse News Service reports that “Kansas’ Bid to Defund Planned Parenthood Blocked by 10th Circuit.” You can access today’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit at this link. Posted at 10:50 PM by Howard Bashman“WV Supreme Court in ‘transition,’ cancels WVU trip”: The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette-Mail has an article that begins, “Days after West Virginia Supreme Court justices abruptly ousted the court’s chief justice, they have decided to cancel the court’s annual trip to hear cases at West Virginia University’s law school.” Posted at 10:24 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court to hear anti-abortion and free speech case: A breakdown of NIFLA v. Becerra.” Madeline Farber of Fox News has this report. Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman“Top Pa. Republicans ask U.S. Supreme Court to block new map”: Jonathan Lai and Liz Navratil of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report. Charles Thompson of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania reports that “Pa.’s Republican legislative leaders seek to block new Congressional map.” Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Pennsylvania Republicans Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Block New Congressional Map; State court invalidated districts last month, saying they were result of unlawful partisan gerrymander, and drew new ones.” Mark Scolforo and Marc Levy of The Associated Press reports that “GOP leaders request hold on Pennsylvania congressional map.” And Sam Levine of HuffPost reports that “Pennsylvania GOP Pleads With SCOTUS Again To Let Them Use Gerrymandered Map; Two days after the state Supreme Court issued a new congressional map that would make elections fairer, Republicans are suing.” At his “Election Law Blog,” Rick Hasen has this post linking to the stay application. Posted at 9:57 PM by Howard Bashman“Top DOJ official Rachel Brand fires back at claims she bolted over Mueller probe concerns”: Jake Gibson of Fox News has this report. Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman“What Not to Wear: SCOTUS to Consider Election Day Attire.” Melissa Heelan Stanzione of Bloomberg Law has this report. Posted at 9:45 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court Limits Suits Against Foreign Terror Sponsors; Victims of Iranian-backed attacks can’t seize antiquities owned by Tehran, justices say”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report. Katherine Vega of The Chicago Maroon reports that “U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Oriental Institute in Terrorism Damages Case.” Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court sides with Chicago museum in terror case.” Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court forbids seizure of ancient Persian artifacts.” And Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com reports that “Supreme Court says terrorism victims can’t seize Iranian artifacts from US museums.” Posted at 9:40 PM by Howard Bashman“War court prosecutor to appeal USS Cole case shutdown”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report. Posted at 9:33 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court Rules on Terrorism, Whistle-Blowers and Prisoners”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court says whistleblowers must alert government to get legal protections.” David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court limits protections for corporate whistleblowers.” Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court deals blow to Wall Street whistle-blowers with unanimous ruling.” Andrew Ackerman of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Curbs Protections for Whistleblowers; Individuals must report alleged wrongdoing to SEC to qualify for antiretaliation provision in Dodd-Frank, high court says.” Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Supreme Court: Dodd-Frank whistleblower protection is narrow.” Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court declines to broaden whistleblower protections.” And Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “U.S. Supreme Court Trims Corporate Whistle-Blower Protections.” Posted at 9:24 PM by Howard Bashman“SCOTUS whistleblower case dodges Chevron deference showdown”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post. Posted at 4:32 PM by Howard Bashman“Is Impeachment the Answer to Judicial Overreach?” Mark Pulliam has this post at American Greatness. Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman“Justice Breyer To Speak on ‘The Court and the World’: Book Explores International Impact on American Law.” Mike Fox of University of Virginia School of Law has this news release. The event, scheduled for 1 p.m. on March 1, 2018, will be streamed live via the law school’s Facebook page. Posted at 1:18 PM by Howard Bashman“Sen. Toomey: State court ‘grabbed power’ from lawmakers, urges GOP to fight congressional maps.” Jan Murphy of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report. And online at The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania, columnist Paul Muschick has an essay titled “Pennsylvania gerrymandering case shows need for merit selection of appellate judges.” Posted at 1:06 PM by Howard Bashman“Labor’s Reprieve Is Over as U.S. Supreme Court Case Targets Fees”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report. Posted at 1:00 PM by Howard Bashman“Judiciary Workplace Conduct Group Seeks Law Clerk, Employee Input”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued this news release today. Comments can be submitted either anonymously or for-attribution via this link. Posted at 12:30 PM by Howard BashmanAccess today’s rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court today issued rulings in four argued cases. 1. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the Court in Murphy v. Smith, No. 16-1067. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, and Elena Kagan joined. You can access the oral argument via this link. 2. Justice Sotomayor delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court (with Justice Kagan recused) in Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, No. 16-534. You can access the oral argument via this link. 3. Justice Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court in Class v. United States, No. 16-424. Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas joined. You can access the oral argument via this link. 4. And Justice Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers, No. 16-1276. Justice Sotomayor issued a concurring opinion, in which Justice Breyer joined. And Justice Thomas issued an opinion, in which Justices Alito and Gorsuch joined, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. You can access the oral argument via this link. Posted at 10:02 AM by Howard BashmanTuesday, February 20, 2018
“Republican challenge to Pennsylvania map likely to fail; For Republicans, it’s not clear yet what legal avenue they plan to proceed with first, or the relief for which they will ask”: Elena Schneider of Politico.com has this report. Posted at 11:22 PM by Howard Bashman“Milwaukee cop’s conviction overturned on charges he raped woman after 911 call”: Gina Barton of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report on a ruling that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today. Posted at 11:15 PM by Howard Bashman“A ‘view’ from the courtroom: An anniversary, and later a tense exchange.” Mark Walsh has this post at “SCOTUSblog.” Posted at 11:02 PM by Howard Bashman“The Geeks Who Put a Stop to Pennsylvania’s Partisan Gerrymandering”: Issie Lapowsk of Wired.com has this report. Posted at 10:25 PM by Howard Bashman“Wisconsin Supreme Court primary: Michael Screnock, Rebecca Dallet advance to April 3 general election.” Patrick Marley and Bill Glauber of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have this report. Molly Beck of The Wisconsin State Journal reports that “Michael Screnock and Rebecca Dallet advance in Supreme Court race.” And Scott Bauer of The Associated Press reports that “Screnock, Dallet advance over Burns in Supreme Court primary.” Posted at 10:20 PM by Howard Bashman“Microsoft, Feds Go Head-to-Head Over Old Laws, New Tech”: Kimberly Robinson has this post at the “US Law Week Blog.” Posted at 9:42 PM by Howard Bashman |
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