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Monday, July 30, 2007 "Chief Justice Is Admitted to Hospital After Seizure": Linda Greenhouse will have this article Tuesday in The New York Times. And David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times provides a news update headlined "Chief Justice Roberts has seizure; Neurological tests found no reason for concern, the Supreme Court says, and he's 'fully recovered'; The cause is unknown; He had a similar event in 1993." "Complaints filed against Supreme Court justice; Judge accepted illegal discount on his legal bill, group says": The Austin American-Statesman last week published an article that begins, "An advocacy group has filed three complaints against Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht, alleging that he broke the law when he accepted a $100,000 discount on legal bills. Texas Watch filed the complaints Tuesday with the Travis County district attorney's office, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct and the Texas Ethics Commission. The nonprofit advocacy group for consumers said Hecht received a discount of up to 25 percent on legal expenses for his appeal of an ethics rebuke. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct reprimanded Hecht for his support of friend Harriet Miers' 2005 nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, alleging that he improperly used his official position to promote Miers. However, a special review court tossed out the sanction." The Houston Chronicle reported last week that "Texas high court justice under review for attorney discount." The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported last week that "Complaint filed against state court justice." The Daily Texan reported last week that "Hecht faces complaints on legal fees." And Texas Lawyer reports that "Complaints Filed Over Discounted Fees for Texas Justice Caught in Miers Nomination Flap." "Chief Justice Suffers Seizure; Roberts Is Fine, Spokeswoman Says": Robert Barnes and Michael D. Shear will have this front page article Tuesday in The Washington Post. Posted at 10:38 PM by Howard Bashman "Chief Justice Roberts Is Hospitalized After Seizure": Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times provides this news update. Posted at 10:33 PM by Howard Bashman "Shortsighted on Judges": Stuart Taylor Jr. has this essay in today's issue of National Journal. Posted at 08:37 PM by Howard Bashman "Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a seizure at his summer home in Maine on Monday, causing a fall that resulted in minor scrapes, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said. He will remain in a hospital in Maine overnight." The Washington Post provides a news update headlined "Supreme Court Chief Suffers a Seizure." The Courier-Gazette of Rockland, Maine provides a news update headlined "Chief Justice Roberts to spend night at hospital." CNN.com reports that "Chief justice tumbles after seizure." Bloomberg News reports that "Chief Justice Roberts Falls After Seizure, Court Says." Reuters reports that "Chief Justice Roberts suffers seizure, fall." And in this post at "SCOTUSblog," you can access the U.S. Supreme Court's official statement issued this evening. "Chief Justice Roberts hospitalized; He was at his vacation home in Maine when he fell, court says": NBC News provides this breaking news. At "SCOTUSblog," Lyle Denniston has a post that begins, "Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., fell at his vacation home in Maine at mid-afternoon, and was taken to a hospital in the area 'as a precaution,' the Supreme Court disclosed Monday. There were no immediate details on whether he was injured, or how severely, or about the circumstances of his fall, according to Kathleen L. Arberg, the Court's public information officer." The Associated Press reports that "Supreme Court Chief Taken to Hospital." Bill Mears and Jean Meserve of CNN report that "Chief Justice tumbles at Maine summer home." Additionally, Jeffrey Toobin, reporting on CNN television, stated at 3:50 p.m. eastern time that the fall occurred around 2 p.m. eastern time this afternoon. Bloomberg News reports that "Chief Justice John Roberts Hospitalized After Fall ." And Reuters reports that "Chief Justice Roberts taken to hospital." Unanimous three-judge Eighth Circuit panel rejects Angela Johnson's efforts to overturn the federal death sentence imposed against her: According to Wikipedia, Johnson is "the first woman sentenced to die by a federal court in over 50 years." Today's decision was not a total loss for Johnson, in that she appears to have achieved the vacation of four death sentences and one sentence of life imprisonment. Unfortunately for her, she began the appeal facing eight death sentences and two sentences of life imprisonment, meaning that she still faces four death sentences and one sentence of life imprisonment. Extensive coverage of the underlying trial is available online via this link from The Globe Gazette of Mason City, Iowa. Prison guards at the Federal Correctional Institution in Jesup, Georgia are not entitled to receive enhanced back pay for their exposure to inmates' smoking, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rules: A unanimous three-judge Federal Circuit panel issued this decision today. Posted at 11:33 AM by Howard Bashman "Justice John Paul Stevens in Honolulu": You can view this past Saturday's broadcast of C-SPAN's "America and the Courts" by clicking here (RealPlayer required). Posted at 08:57 AM by Howard Bashman "Gun control goes to court? The Supreme Court may takes its first 2nd Amendment case in more than 60 years." This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times. Posted at 08:30 AM by Howard Bashman "Gonzales's Truthfulness Long Disputed; Claims of Misstatements to Shield Bush Stretch Back a Decade": The Washington Post contains this front page article today. USA Today reports today that "Dems skeptical over hint of 2 surveillance efforts; Discrepancies between Gonzales, FBI director raise more questions." And The Washington Times reports that "Senators warn Gonzales he must clarify testimony." "Appeals jurist takes senior status; Widener's departure brings 4th Circuit vacancies to five": This article appears today in The Richmond Times-Dispatch. The newspaper also contains a related editorial entitled "Vacancies." "Solicitor faced with crucial decision but few guidelines": Today's issue of USA Today contains an article that begins, "Any decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for allegedly lying to Congress rests with his subordinate, Solicitor General Paul Clement, who has few rules to guide him." And at her "Legalities" blog, ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg has a post titled "Clement and His Options." "Judging the Judges": The New York Sun today contains an editorial that begins, "It is no small thing that a federal judge had to tell the state's presiding administrative judges that they flubbed the First Amendment when drafting new rules about attorney advertising in the State of New York." Posted at 07:50 AM by Howard Bashman "Solons Aim To Reverse Ruling Curbing Asylum for Chinese": Today in The New York Sun, Joseph Goldstein has an article that begins, "Congress, led by members of New York's delegation, is considering whether to ease the granting of political asylum to those affected by China's forcible sterilization and abortion policies." Posted at 07:48 AM by Howard Bashman "After Flawed Executions, States Resort to Secrecy": You can access at this link (TimesSelect temporary pass-through link) today's installment of Adam Liptak's "Sidebar" column. Posted at 07:44 AM by Howard Bashman "An Unsolved Killing: What does the firing of a U.S. Attorney have to do with a murder case?" Jeffrey Toobin has this article about the murder of Seattle-based Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Wales in the August 6, 2007 issue of The New Yorker. Posted at 07:35 AM by Howard Bashman  
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