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Wednesday, April 7, 2021

“Oklahoma Gov. Stitt says dangerous criminals walking free thanks to ‘horribly wrong’ Supreme Court ruling; ‘The murderers and criminals being let loose is the biggest thing that’s happening in our state,’ Gov. Stitt tells Fox News”: Houston Keene of Fox News has this report.

And in related news coverage, Curtis Killman of The Tulsa World reports that “Grand jury indicts death-row inmate whose state conviction, sentence are in jeopardy due to McGirt.”

Posted at 8:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Four partisan hacks on the state Supreme Court will get a lot of Wisconsinites killed”: The Cap Times of Madison, Wisconsin has published this editorial.

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“A blind Jewish Michigan Supreme Court justice was stuck in Dubai en route to Israel. Now he has no plans to leave.” Asma Ali Zain of Jewish Telegraphic Agency has this report.

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“9th Circuit decertifies tuna price-fixing classes, clamps down on uninjured class members”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

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“Websites Not Bound by ADA Accessibility Rules, 11th Circuit Finds; The ruling vacates a federal judge’s decision that the Winn-Dixie supermarket chain’s website violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by being inaccessible to visually impaired people who use screen-reader software”: Kayla Goggin of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

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“Defendants’ new Supreme Court dream case? J&J’s challenge to $2 billion talc judgment.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

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“Justice Breyer Lays Out Opposition to Expanding Supreme Court; He says restructuring court would be perceived as politicizing it”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Justice Breyer Rejects ‘Conservative’ Tag for Supreme Court.”

Joan Biskupic of CNN reports that “Stephen Breyer worries about Supreme Court’s public standing in current political era.”

Tyler Olson of Fox News reports that “Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer forcefully opposes court packing; Breyer says court-packing would diminish respect for SCOTUS and, ultimately, the rule of law.”

Rachel Reed of Harvard Law Today reports that “Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer cautions against ‘the peril of politics’; At Scalia lecture, Justice Breyer warns that changes to the Court could erode public confidence.”

And in commentary, at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York Magazine, Ed Kilgore has a post titled “Justice Breyer Is Missing the Point on Court Packing.”

Posted at 5:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Crystal Mason Was Sentenced to Five Years Behind Bars Because She Voted; The G.O.P.’s war on voting has human casualties; Here’s one”: Jesse Wegman has this essay in today’s edition of The New York Times.

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“Order Certifying Classes in Tuna Price-Fixing Case Vacated; Majority of Ninth Circuit Panel, in Opinion by Bumatay, Says District Court Can’t Find Common Issues of Fact or Law Predominate Without Determining How Many Putative Class Members Were Uninjured; Hurwitz Disagrees”: Metropolitan News-Enterprise has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.

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“Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella appointed Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Justice Abella is world-renowned for her decisions and theories on equality, human rights, and constitutional law”: Rachel Reed of Harvard Law Today has this report.

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“Stephen Miller’s Next Act Finds a Stage in the Courts; Trump senior adviser — and conservative lightning rod — launches new legal group to challenge Democratic policies through lawsuits”: Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

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“Progressive push to play by their own rules: Use simple Senate majority to pack federal courts; Plan can be pushed through Senate by 51 votes via the ‘budget reconciliation process,’ activists say.” Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

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“Scalia Lecture | Justice Stephen G. Breyer, ‘The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics'”: Harvard Law School has posted this video on YouTube.

In news coverage, Adam Liptak of The New York Times reports that “Justice Breyer says expanding the Supreme Court could undermine its authority.”

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Justice Breyer says expanding the Supreme Court could erode trust.”

John Fritze of USA Today has an article headlined “‘Think long and hard’: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer pushes back on ‘court-packing.’

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Breyer says big Supreme Court changes could diminish trust.”

And Emmy M. Cho of The Harvard Crimson reports that “Justice Breyer Speaks on Court Authority and the ‘Peril of Politics’ in Annual HLS Scalia Lecture.”

Posted at 1:02 PM by Howard Bashman