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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 "Justices Rule for Inmate After Mailroom Mix-Up": Adam Liptak will have this article Thursday in The New York Times. Mary Orndorff of The Birmingham News has an update headlined "U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Alabama Death Row inmate Cory Maples." On this evening's broadcast of NPR's "All Things Considered," Nina Totenberg had an audio segment entitled "High Court Sides With Man Abandoned By Attorneys." And David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a blog post titled "Supreme Court: Alabama death row inmate gets new chance to appeal." "Public Domain Works Can Be Copyrighted Anew, Supreme Court Rules": Adam Liptak will have this article Thursday in The New York Times. And Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined "Supreme Court: Copyright can be extended to foreign works once in public domain." "Court asked to reconsider ruling on bone marrow compensation": Carol J. Williams of The Los Angeles Times has this blog post. Posted at 09:06 PM by Howard Bashman "NJ high court weighs Mexican telephone testimony": The Associated Press has this report. Earlier, The Asbury Park Press previewed the oral argument in an article headlined "N.J. Supreme Court to to consider appeal via pay phone from Mexico." "Cory Maples Should Not Face Death Penalty Due To Mailroom Mix-Up, Supreme Court Rules": Mike Sacks of The Huffington Post has this report. Posted at 04:09 PM by Howard Bashman "Copyrights on Foreign Works Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court": Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report. Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that "Justices allow copyrights on foreign works." And at Wired.com's "Threat Level" blog, David Kravets has a post titled "Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works." "Justices side with death row inmate abandoned by counsel": Joan Biskupic of USA Today has this news update. Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined "Supreme Court: Alabama death-row inmate Cory Maples should get new hearing." Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that "U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Death-Row Inmate on Law Firm Mailroom Error." And James Vicini of Reuters reports that "Death row inmate wins missed deadline case." "Supreme Court upholds copyright law for famous foreign works": James Vicini of Reuters has this report. And at "SCOTUSblog," Lyle Denniston has a post titled "Opinion recap: The public domain shrinks." "Government Brief in Hamdan: The Looming Article III Problem..." Steve Vladeck has this post at the "Lawfare" blog, which has made the brief available at this link. Posted at 11:18 AM by Howard Bashman "Paul Clement at Center of Supreme Court's Blockbuster Cases": Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has this report. Posted at 11:09 AM by Howard Bashman "Komisarjevsky Motion For New Trial, Acquittal Denied": The Hartford Courant has this news update. And The Associated Press reports that "Judge rejects Conn. home invasion retrial request." Access online today's decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court today issued three rulings in argued cases. 1. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court in Maples v. Thomas, No. 10-63. Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. issued a concurring opinion. And Justice Antonin Scalia issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Clarence Thomas joined. You can access the oral argument via this link. 2. Justice Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court in Golan v. Holder, No.10-545. Justice Stephen G. Breyer issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Alito joined. Justice Elena Kagan did not participate in the ruling. You can access the oral argument via this link. 3. And Justice Ginsburg delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC, No. 10-1195. You can access the oral argument via this link. In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that "Supreme Court upholds copyright law"; "Court orders new hearing for Ala. death row inmate"; and "Court lets telemarketers be sued in federal court." "Court Weighs Protections for Lawyers of Cities": Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times. You can access at this link the transcript of yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Filarsky v. Delia, No. 10-1018. "Affirmative-Action Foe Is Facing Allegations of Financial Misdeeds": Charlie Savage has this article today in The New York Times. And The Sacramento Bee reports today that "Connerly financial misdeeds alleged in letter." "U.S. Supreme Court declines Forsyth County prayer appeal": The Winston-Salem Journal contains this article today, along with an editorial entitled "The Supreme Court rightly declines to hear prayer-fight appeal, ending a losing battle." And Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that "High court rejects appeals on public prayers, student speech." "U.S. Supreme Court won't hear appeals in students' online rants": This article appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports today that "High court fails to act in off-campus speech cases." In today's edition of The Allentown Morning Call, Peter Hall reports that "Supreme Court backs kids' Internet speech; Appeal asked justices to define schools' reach in discipline for disruptive posts." Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined "Does First Amendment protect students' online speech off-campus? The Supreme Court declined to take up Tuesday three potentially important test cases of the First Amendment of students engaged in controversial speech on the Internet." Nina Totenberg of NPR reports that "High Court Lets Stand Trio Of First Amendment Cases." At Wired.com's "Threat Level" blog, David Kravets has a post titled "Supreme Court Rejects Student Social-Media Cases." And at the "School Law" blog of Education Week, Mark Walsh has a post titled "Supreme Court Declines Cases on Student Internet Speech." "Reformers call for Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin to step aside": The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that "Groups call on Justice Melvin to resign." The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has articles headlined "Reformers seek Supreme Court Justice Orie Melvin recusal" and "Orie sisters' retrial delayed 2 weeks; Feb. 27 start eyed." And today's edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an editorial entitled "Supreme Court justice needs to step aside." "U.S. Judge Won't Delay Madoff-Mets Trial for Trustee's Immediate Appeal": Bloomberg News has this report. The New York Times reports today that "Mets Owners Can Look Forward to Trial During Spring Training." The New York Daily News reports today that "U.S. District judge turns away appeal from Irving Picard, trustee for the victims of Bernie Madoff in suit against NY Mets owners; Jed S. Rakoff limits financial liability of Wilpons in Madoff lawsuit." The Associated Press reports that "NY judge blocks immediate appeal by Madoff trustee." And Reuters reports that "Judge rejects Madoff trustee appeal in Mets case."  
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