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Thursday, October 6, 2022

“Supreme Court will consider whether Andy Warhol’s Prince paintings violate copyright law”: Mark Walsh has this report online at ABA Journal.

Posted at 10:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Slack’s backers warn SCOTUS of hit to capital markets from direct listing case”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

Posted at 9:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“66 Abortion Clinics No Longer Provide Abortions After Roe Overturned, Study Says; Twenty-six of those clinics have closed, though some have reopened or plan to reopen in other locations”: Jennifer Calfas of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 9:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals Court Allows Florida to Prohibit Businesses From Requiring Proof of Covid-19 Vaccination; Divided ruling lifts injunction that barred state from enforcing law”: Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal 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.

Earlier today, Jim Saunders of News Service of Florida had an article headlined “The cruise line challenge to Florida’s ban on vaccine passports is near an end” reporting that the appellees in this case earlier this week had asked the Eleventh Circuit to dismiss the appeal as moot.

Posted at 9:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Asked to Consider Missouri Minor’s Abortion Rights”: Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Posted at 2:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Texas executes John Henry Ramirez, who won religious rights Supreme Court case”: María Luisa Paúl of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 11:55 AM by Howard Bashman



“The man who wrote the Onion’s Supreme Court brief takes parody very seriously”: Rachel Treisman of NPR has a report that begins, “The long-running First Amendment case of an Ohio man is suddenly getting a lot of attention, thanks to the satirical news site The Onion.”

Posted at 11:50 AM by Howard Bashman



“Maybe Federal Law Clerk Hiring Practices Should — Just Spitballing Here — Be More Normal? A recent spat between a judge and Yale Law School forces us to consider whether the federal judiciary should continue to be a spoils system for the well connected.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

Posted at 10:54 AM by Howard Bashman



“Is Justice Jackson an Originalist? Evidence from the Alabama Voting Rights Oral Argument.” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

Posted at 10:48 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Sackett Oral Argument and the Problem of Defining ‘Waters of the United States’; The justices wrestled with the problem of identifying a clear, coherent, and administrable definition to constrain federal regulatory jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 10:45 AM by Howard Bashman



“Yale Law Women+ honors Leondra Kruger; Yale Law Women+ presented the Yale Law Journal’s first ever Black female editor in chief — who now serves as a justice on the California Supreme Court — Leondra Kruger with their Alumni Achievement Award”: Ines Chomnalez of The Yale Daily News has this report.

Posted at 10:43 AM by Howard Bashman



“Ex-Howard Stern sidekick ‘Stuttering John’ loses appeal against SiriusXM”: Priscilla DeGregory of The New York Post has this report.

Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that “Howard Stern ex-sidekick ‘Stuttering John’ loses Sirius XM appeal.”

And Kyle Jahner of Bloomberg Law reports that “Howard Stern Ads Clear of Performer’s Rights, 2nd Cir. Says.”

You can access Tuesday’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

Posted at 10:38 AM by Howard Bashman