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Monday, March 23, 2009 "Was 'Hillary: The Movie' wrongly censored?; The Supreme Court hears a case Tuesday about rules governing campaign advocacy and finance." Warren Richey will have this article Tuesday in The Christian Science Monitor. Posted at 11:30 PM by Howard Bashman "Rep. Frank calls Scalia a 'homophobe' in interview": The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 11:27 PM by Howard Bashman "Strip-Search of a Girl Is to Test Limit of School Policy": Adam Liptak will have this article Tuesday in The New York Times. Posted at 11:23 PM by Howard Bashman In the March 2009 issue of The Georgetown Law Journal: Jamal Greene has an article titled "Selling Originalism." Pierre Schlag has a provocative essay titled "Spam Jurisprudence, Air Law, and the Rank Anxiety of Nothing Happening (A Report on the State of the Art)." In the essay's very first footnote -- long before the essay's footnotes become entirely schizophrenic -- Schlag cites to Adam Liptak's pre-law school, 1985 "About Men" essay published in The New York Times under the headline "Playing Air Guitar." And among the several responses to Schlag's essay is one by Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner titled "The State of Legal Scholarship Today: A Comment on Schlag." "Lawyer: Chemical-weapon law misapplied in Pa. case." The Associated Press has this report on an appeal argued today before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Posted at 06:20 PM by Howard Bashman "Dean Koh to be Nominated as Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State": Yale Law School has today issued this news release. The New Haven Register has a news update headlined "Yale law dean headed for State Department." And The Yale Daily News has an update headlined "Koh named for State post." "SG Kagan Presented to Supreme Court": Tony Mauro has this post at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times." Posted at 03:55 PM by Howard Bashman "No new grants; U.S. views sought": Lyle Denniston has this post at "SCOTUSblog" about the Order List that the U.S. Supreme Court issued today. And The Associated Press reports that "Court won't hear appeal by former Border Patrol." Rulings of note that the Supreme Court of Georgia issued today: Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a news update headlined "Court revives Atlanta tax suit against online travel firms." And The Associated Press reports that "Ga. court revives Web hotel price scheme challenge." You can access the ruling at this link. Rankin also has a news update headlined "Court tosses out $5M verdict against DeKalb in student death; Family of Emory student had sued after he was killed doing community service." You can access the ruling at this link. Law professor blogger to marry commenter at aforementioned law professor blog: Congratulations to Ann Althouse! Only time will tell whether this will allow her husband-to-be to be jealous if she's spending too much time blogging once they are married. Posted at 03:33 PM by Howard Bashman "High court justices skeptical in case against Enron exec": The Houston Chronicle has this news update. And Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that "Court weighs double jeopardy for ex-Enron exec." You can access the transcript of today's U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Yeager v. United States, No. 08-67, at this link. "Original Sin: Scalia Unplugged -- Supreme Court Justice Uses The Language Of Sin To Describe His Ideological Opponents." CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen has this new installment of his "CourtWatch" column. Posted at 03:20 PM by Howard Bashman Programming note: This morning, I'll be traveling to and from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania to meet with two appellate clients who reside there. Additional posts will appear here later this afternoon. At 10 a.m. eastern time today, the Supreme Court of the United States will issue an Order List (link won't function until Order List posted online). "SCOTUSblog" will provide coverage of today's orders. "Ex-Enron exec taking his case to high court today; Yeager says he shouldn't be retried after acquittal on related charges": The Houston Chronicle today contains an article that begins, "The first Enron defendant to bring an argument before the U.S. Supreme Court isn't among the best-known." Posted at 07:57 AM by Howard Bashman "Wal-Mart Ruling Has Wide Reach on Discrimination Cases": Today's edition of The Wall Street Journal contains an article that begins, "Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heads back to a federal appeals court on Tuesday to argue that a sex-discrimination lawsuit against it shouldn't proceed as a class-action case covering more than a million women." Posted at 07:55 AM by Howard Bashman "Putting Guantanamo to good use": Nathaniel T. Wheelwright has this op-ed today in The Boston Globe. Posted at 07:54 AM by Howard Bashman "Justice may face GOP ire on tenure; Albin drawing fire over his 'activism'": The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger today contains an article that begins, "Slim, slight and studious, Barry Albin can walk down just about any street in New Jersey without being recognized. That may soon change. Albin, one of seven justices on the New Jersey Supreme Court, is about to become a lightning rod in what promises to be a tough gubernatorial campaign." Posted at 07:50 AM by Howard Bashman "Hellhole: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement; Is this torture?" Atul Gawande has this "Annals of Human Rights" article in the March 30, 2009 issue of The New Yorker. Posted at 07:40 AM by Howard Bashman  
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