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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 "Company Campaign Giving to Candidates Should Be Limited, U.S. Tells Court": Bloomberg News has this report. Posted at 10:08 PM by Howard Bashman "Justice Stevens Reflects On The Court And Its Chiefs": This segment (link to audio) appeared on today's broadcast of NPR's "Fresh Air from WHYY." Posted at 08:26 PM by Howard Bashman "Can You Sue A Posh Subdivision When Your Grandmother Is Eaten By An Alligator?" Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has this blog post. My earlier coverage appears at this link. "Komisarjevsky Prosecutors Outline Why He Should Die": The Hartford Courant has a news update that begins, "Prosecutors seeking execution for convicted triple killer Joshua Komisarjevsky have filed a document outlining which legal reasons they will use to justify the death penalty. The penalty phase of the trial is scheduled to begin Monday." Posted at 08:15 PM by Howard Bashman "Top court nominees use hearing to mitigate perceived shortcomings": Kirk Makin of The Toronto Globe and Mail has this news update. CBC News reports that "Supreme Court nominee vows to improve French skills; Michael Moldaver also declares restraint needed before touching the nation's laws." And Postmedia News reports that "Top court nominee comes under fire for lack of French." "Kagan talks about her faith, the court, and her hunting trips": Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report. Posted at 08:07 PM by Howard Bashman "Nixon names judge with St. Louis ties to Missouri Supreme Court": The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has this news update. And via the web site of the Governor of Missouri you can access a news release headlined "Gov. Nixon names state Appeals Court Judge George W. Draper III to Missouri Supreme Court." "How to keep courts running after terror attack": Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has an article that begins, "A new report from experts on government continuity says a terrorist attack that killed four or more Supreme Court justices would significantly hamper the ability of the entire federal judiciary to carry out its work." You can access at this link the report that is the subject of this AP article. "Health care process speeds up": Lyle Denniston has this post at "SCOTUSblog." Posted at 04:27 PM by Howard Bashman "Hyperlinking doesn't constitute defamation, Supreme Court rules": Kirk Makin of The Toronto Globe and Mail has this news update. The Toronto Star has a news update headlined "Supreme Court ruling big victory for Internet freedom." The Toronto Sun has a news update headlined "Top court rules web links not illegal." Postmedia News reports that "Web hyperlinks aren't publication of defamatory text, court rules." And at Wired.com's "Threat Level" blog, David Kravets has a post titled "Supreme Court of Canada OKs Internet Linking." You can access today's ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link. "Viacom Replaces Superstar Lawyer on Eve of YouTube Appeal; Former solicitor general Ted Olson doesn't attend a key appeal court hearing after Viacom chooses Paul Smith to handle oral arguments": Online at The Hollywood Reporter, Eriq Gardner has this post at the "Hollywood, Esq." blog. Posted at 11:40 AM by Howard Bashman "Uneven Stevens: The former justice's outbursts are doing a disservice to the Supreme Court." Law professor Richard A. Epstein has this essay online at the "Defining Ideas" web site of the Hoover Institution. Posted at 11:14 AM by Howard Bashman "Citigroup wins in employees' stock drop appeal": Reuters has a report that begins, "A federal appeals court said Citigroup Inc was not liable to thousands of workers who said it should not have offered bank stock in its retirement plans because it knew the stock was a bad investment." You can access today's ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link. "Anita Hill Defends Her Legacy: Two decades after her seismic testimony, she doesn't shy away from talking about it." Cynthia Gordy has this essay online at The Root. Posted at 09:06 AM by Howard Bashman "Gentle grilling of top court appointees not to everyone's taste": Kirk Makin has this article today in The Toronto Globe and Mail. Posted at 09:02 AM by Howard Bashman "Supreme Court decision could force Florida's police to get a warrant to secretly install GPS trackers; Right now, they don't have to get a warrant, but many agencies say they do anyway": This article appears today in The South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Posted at 08:57 AM by Howard Bashman "Ogoni Leader Welcomes U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Shell Case; Movement for Survival of Ogoni People president Ledum Mitee says the court's decision sends a message that Shell must be held to account": Voice of America has this report. And in related coverage, Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire reports that "Oil companies on alert as justices take up int'l human rights case." "Supreme Court to hear Landings gator attack case": This article appears today in The Savannah Morning News. Posted at 08:54 AM by Howard Bashman "Obama Lawyers Urge Court to Limit Scope of Health-Care Case": Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report. Posted at 08:52 AM by Howard Bashman 
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