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Tuesday, July 17, 2012 "Civil Rights Groups Seek To Stop Arizona Immigration Law": Bloomberg News has this report. The Associated Press reports that "Ariz. immigration law opponents file new offensive." And Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star has a news update headlined "New effort by group to block SB 1070 provision." "States saying no to 'Obamacare' could see downside": The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 10:56 PM by Howard Bashman "Scalia and Garner on statutory interpretation": At the blog "LAWnLinguistics," Neal Goldfarb has four posts about the new book. The posts are titled "Introduction"; "Prescriptivist Statutory Interpretation?"; "Syntactic ambiguity"; and "Three syntactic canons." Posted at 10:30 PM by Howard Bashman "Justices Overturn Restitution Order to Estate as 'Victim'": Metropolitan News-Enterprise has a report that begins, "The state Supreme Court yesterday unanimously agreed with a drunk driver's argument that the estate of the man he killed when he drove the wrong way on the freeway was not a 'victim' entitled to restitution. The court overturned a $446,486 restitution award against Paul Dean Runyan in favor of the estate of Donald Benge, who left no heirs or relatives." You can access yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Court of California at this link. "In Kiobel filings, human rights group queries AG Holder conflicts": Alison Frankel's "On the Case" from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report. Posted at 07:09 PM by Howard Bashman "Miss. abortion clinic may be on way to closing": The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 06:22 PM by Howard Bashman "Second Annual Supreme Court Term in Review Program" at University of California, Irvine School of Law is now underway: You can view the program live, online by clicking here (via "Election Law Blog"). Posted at 03:14 PM by Howard Bashman Majority on divided three-judge Ninth Circuit panel rejects Fourth Amendment challenge to Los Angeles ordinance that requires operators of hotels to maintain certain guest registry information and to make that information available to police officers on request: You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link. Update: Pamela A. MacLean has this post about the ruling at her "Trial Insider" blog. "Chief Guantanamo judge refuses request to disqualify himself from USS Cole trial": Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this news update. Posted at 01:15 PM by Howard Bashman "The Supreme Court: Not Such an Impregnable Fortress Anymore?" Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has this report. Posted at 10:18 AM by Howard Bashman "Chief Justice Roberts' key message lost on many critics": At the web site of The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin has an essay that begins, "Of the millions of words written and spoken about the Supreme Court's decision in the Affordable Care Act case (commonly called the health care case), too many have focused on labels and politics, too few on the principles of judging." Posted at 09:25 AM by Howard Bashman "Obamacare and the Court: Handing Health Policy Back to the People." Law professor Barry Friedman has this essay online at Foreign Affairs. Posted at 09:22 AM by Howard Bashman "Trial Judge to Appeals Court: Review Me." This editorial appears today in The New York Times. Posted at 08:54 AM by Howard Bashman "Gov. Christie set to nominate former federal, state prosecutor to N.J. Supreme Court": Today's edition of The Newark Star-Ledger contains an article that begins, "Gov. Chris Christie -- rebuffed by Democrats on two recent state Supreme Court choices -- plans to nominate Superior Court Judge Lee Solomon, a former federal and state prosecutor, to the high court, The Star-Ledger has learned." Posted at 08:52 AM by Howard Bashman 
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