http://howappealing.law.com/ en-us 2008-05-09T15:30:33-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050908.html#033646 Joseph Goldstein of The New York Sun is reporting: An article headlined "Congress Seeks To Protect U.S. Authors" begins, "Congress is taking an even more aggressive approach than New York State in responding to the fining of American journalists and... Howard Bashman 2008-05-09T15:30:33-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050908.html#033645 "McCain Sings Same Old GOP Song On Justices; Republican Presidential Nominee Parrots Party Lines Bashing Judges": CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen recently had this "CourtWatch" column.... Howard Bashman 2008-05-09T15:25:58-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050908.html#033644 The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online, in coverage of cases pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, are articles headlined "Reporter challenges ruling over sources in anthrax case" and "Plame seeks to resurrect lawsuit... Howard Bashman 2008-05-09T14:50:46-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050908.html#033643 "Judge threatens to suspend war court trial; A military judge agreed with defense lawyers that they should have access to the log that tracked the life of a Canadian brought to the prison camp in 2002, at age 15": Carol... Howard Bashman 2008-05-09T09:25:44-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050908.html#033642 "Court weighs whether to restrict 'business method' patents": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "Is a baseball pitcher's method for throwing a curveball patentable? How about a chiropractor's techniques? A federal appeals court wrestled with those kinds of... Howard Bashman 2008-05-09T09:14:20-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050908.html#033641 "Send in the clones? Judges should be independent thinkers, not political partisans." This editorial appears today in USA Today. The newspaper also contains an op-ed by Tony Perkins entitled "Restrain judicial activism: Judges should interpret the law and leave legislating... Howard Bashman 2008-05-09T08:52:34-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050908.html#033640 In commentary available from FindLaw: Edward Lazarus has an essay entitled "McCain's Remarks Regarding the Kind of Judges He Would Nominate As President: His Surprising Failure to Take Into Account the Rightward Turn of the Supreme Court and of the... Howard Bashman 2008-05-09T08:48:59-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050908.html#033639 "Obama on judges: Protect the powerless." James Oliphant has this post at "The Swamp" blog of The Chicago Tribune.... Howard Bashman 2008-05-09T08:45:52-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050908.html#033638 "Court orders American Indian to trial for shooting eagle": A more detailed report from The Associated Press on an interesting decision that Tenth Circuit Judge Michael W. McConnell issued yesterday refers to RFRA as the "Religious Freedom Restitution Act." My... Howard Bashman 2008-05-09T08:42:30-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050908.html#033637 "Bush nominates Va. judge to fill vacancy on 4th Circuit": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "A federal judge in Virginia is President Bush's pick to fill one of several vacancies on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of... Howard Bashman 2008-05-09T08:33:29-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050808.html#033636 "Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday closely questioned the qualifications, driving record and tax-payment history of a Michigan judge nominated to the federal court of appeals that hears cases for Michigan and other Midwestern states." So begins this... Howard Bashman 2008-05-08T22:40:51-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050808.html#033635 Tenth Circuit holds that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act does not preclude the federal government from prosecuting a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming who shot a bald eagle for use in the tribe's traditional religious ceremony: Circuit... Howard Bashman 2008-05-08T22:27:05-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050808.html#033634 "This case calls on us to address whether veterans who served on ships off the coast of Vietnam during the Vietnam War served 'in the Republic of Vietnam' and thus are entitled to the presumption of service connection if they... Howard Bashman 2008-05-08T15:57:48-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050808.html#033633 "Court Issues Split Decision In Lucent-Microsoft Dispute": Dow Jones Newswires provide this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued today.... Howard Bashman 2008-05-08T15:48:28-05:00 http://howappealing.law.com/050808.html#033632 "McCain's half-truths about judges": Columnist Linda P. Campbell has this op-ed today in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. And online at The American Spectator, Quin Hillyer has an essay entitled "Judging McCain."... Howard Bashman 2008-05-08T15:15:00-05:00