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Sunday, May 16, 2021

“Landlords Take Fight Against Eviction Ban to 11th Circuit; An attorney for the National Apartment Association told the appeals court that landlords’ inability to give delinquent tenants the boot during the pandemic is causing them irreparable harm”: Kayla Goggin of Courthouse News Service has this report on an oral argument (access the audio via this link) that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit heard Friday.

Posted at 9:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Bayer Suffers Second Appellate Defeat With Ninth Circuit Ruling in Roundup Cancer Case; Bayer-owned Monsanto must now decide whether it wants the Supreme Court to weigh in on the legitimacy of a $25 million jury verdict”: Maria Dinzeo of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued Friday.

Posted at 8:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court considers plea from parents of man killed in St. Louis jail who was shackled facedown”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

Posted at 7:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“ICC asks SCOTUS to limit U.S. courts’ discretion over discovery in overseas arbitration”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“End of SCOTUS Term: Breyer’s Future, Voting Rights, College Sports, ObamaCare & the First Amendment”: The Committee for Justice has posted on YouTube at this link the video of a recent virtual event that the organization hosted.

Posted at 10:20 AM by Howard Bashman



“Consensus-Building Judge Taking the Reins at Federal Circuit”: Perry Cooper of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “Incoming Federal Circuit Chief Judge Kimberly Moore is known for fostering relationships among clerks and judges, a style that could help bring together a court split over knotty legal issues.”

Posted at 9:24 AM by Howard Bashman



“Judicial Notice (05.15.21): Bennifer Is Back; A-Rod hires Wachtell Lipton, a top law school gets a new dean, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post (subscription required for full access) at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

Posted at 9:20 AM by Howard Bashman