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Monday, October 22, 2012 "Iowa Justice Who Ruled for Gay Marriage Faces Test That Peers Failed": This article will appear Tuesday in The New York Times. And The Associated Press reports that "Supporters of Iowa Supreme Court justice focus on equality; Observers say result could be much closer than 2010 vote that ousted three justices." "Goodwin Liu has blended in easily on California's Supreme Court; Tarred by conservative Republicans as a liberal activist, the failed nominee for the federal bench has been anything but extreme during his first year on the state's highest court": Maura Dolan will have this article Tuesday in Los Angeles Times. Posted at 09:14 PM by Howard Bashman "California's Prop 34: Battle over fate of state's death penalty heating up." Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News has this update. Posted at 07:21 PM by Howard Bashman "A Portrait of the Supreme Court in the Obama Era": In Tuesday's edition of The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani will have this review of Jeffrey Toobin's new book, "The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court." Posted at 06:07 PM by Howard Bashman "In the Supreme Court, a Fight Over Sanctions for Government Misconduct": Mike Scarcella has this post today at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times." Posted at 05:10 PM by Howard Bashman "New Chairs for Five Judicial Conference Committees": Today, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued a news release that begins, "Chief Justice John Roberts Jr, has named five new Judicial Conference committee chairs and extended the terms of three current committee chairs, effective October 1, 2012." Of particular note, Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton will move from being chair of the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules to being chair of the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, which oversees changes to all federal court rules of procedure. And Judge Sutton's replacement as chair of the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules is Eighth Circuit Judge Steven M. Colloton. "Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Mourns Passing of Judge Otto R. Skopil Jr." The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release Saturday. Posted at 12:50 PM by Howard Bashman "Q & A with Jeffrey Toobin": Ronald Collins has this post today at "SCOTUSblog." Posted at 11:26 AM by Howard Bashman "Our tortured pick for state Supreme Court: Sanders." Today's edition of The Tacoma (Wash.) News Tribune contains an editorial that begins, "We would have preferred a different choice for the state Supreme Court." Posted at 08:47 AM by Howard Bashman "N.J. Supreme Court to tackle privacy issues in cellphone, GPS case": This article appears today in The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey. Posted at 08:45 AM by Howard Bashman "Can Copyrighted Works Purchased Abroad Be Resold In the United States?" John Villasenor has this blog post at Forbes.com. Posted at 08:44 AM by Howard Bashman "Chief Justice speaks at Rice": This article appeared in last Friday's issue of The Rice Thresher, the student newspaper of Rice University. Today's edition of The Yale Daily News contains an article headlined "Ginsburg reflects on career." And today's edition of The Daily Beacon, the student newspaper of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, contains an article headlined "Justice Elena Kagan speaks on life, court." "The Romney Court": Law professor Adam Winkler has this blog entry at The Huffington Post. Posted at 08:37 AM by Howard Bashman "Student prompted Justice Scalia appearance at UW": This article appears today in The Laramie (Wyo.) Boomerang. Posted at 08:26 AM by Howard Bashman Available online from the California Law Review: In the publication's October 2012 issue, law professor Justin Driver has an article titled "The Constitutional Conservatism of the Warren Court." And yesterday, the publication posted online an article titled "Harlan on My Mind: Chief Justice Roberts and the Affordable Care Act" by law professor Timothy P. O'Neill. 
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