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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

“Law professor sues George Mason University, challenging covid vaccine mandate”: Susan Svrluga of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 10:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Legal Battle Looms Over New Eviction Moratorium; Biden administration faces high legal hurdles in pressing for new ban without legislation to back it up”: Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 9:33 PM by Howard Bashman



Roe and Our Contested Rights Regime: If progressivism actually is marching onward throughout the country, why are advocates of Roe so nervous about it being overturned?” Greg Weiner has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

Posted at 8:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Biden’s Rebuff to Supreme Court on Eviction Ban Will Backfire; It’s not only bad constitutional law; It’s bad constitutional politics to spurn Justice Kavanaugh’s sensible judgment”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

Posted at 1:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Federal Murder Trial Begins For Man At Center Of Supreme Court Ruling On Tribal Jurisdiction”: Amelia Mugavero of News on 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma has this report.

Posted at 1:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“New national Marquette Law School Poll finds public approval of the Supreme Court to be high, partisanship to shape views of justices and decisions”: Marquette University Law School issued this news release yesterday. You can access the detailed results of the poll via this link.

Posted at 12:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“DOJ will argue at SCOTUS against U.S. discovery in private foreign arbitration”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

Posted at 11:06 AM by Howard Bashman



This time, the Eighth Circuit holds that appealing from one non-existent court to another non-existent court isn’t a fatal defect: You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

According to yesterday’s ruling, the relevant distinctions between yesterday’s decision and a recent, earlier ruling dismissing an appeal due to defects in the notice of appeal were that the appellants “appealed from a real and specific order[, and the] notice of appeal . . . properly named the parties in the caption.”

Posted at 11:00 AM by Howard Bashman