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Thursday, March 16, 2023

“Boeing’s Legal Dispute: Did 737 MAX Victims Suffer Pain Before the Crash? Dispute focuses on whether relatives of crash victims are legally entitled to damages beyond their own grief and loss.” Andrew Tangel of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 8:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“McCarthyism Is Rearing Its Head in America’s Law Schools; Two federal appeals court judges want legal educators to get into the business of blacklisting student ‘disrupters’ from law schools and legal jobs; That’s deserving of true student outrage”: Columnist Vivia Chen has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.

And yesterday, Chen had an essay titled “Stanford Law Students Are Fueling the Right-Wing Agenda; Why are some of the best and brightest law students in the land so inept at the culture war game?

Posted at 8:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“N. Dakota Supreme Court Blocks Abortion Ban; Says Constitution Protects Procedure; The court’s opinion is not the final word on the case, but it upheld a lower court’s decision to suspend the state’s abortion ban”: Ava Sasani and David W. Chen of The New York Times have this report.

And online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “An All-Republican State Supreme Court Unanimously Protects Abortion Rights.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of North Dakota at this link.

Posted at 5:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“Federal Judges Got the Power to Remove Their Private Info From the Internet — And They’re Using It; The new program has arrived — and thrived — as members of Congress and the public have expressed concern about the federal government’s efforts to remove information online and sought more accountability of the judiciary”: Brad Kutner of The National Law Journal has this report.

Posted at 5:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Jack Daniel’s, Confusion, and the Problematic Origin Story of this Blog’s Name”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

Apparently I had made the same connection several years before the “Dorf on Law” blog came into existence in two “How Appealing” posts from 2003, here and here. (Yes, somehow this blog has been in existence for more than 20 years now!!!)

Posted at 4:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Second Amendment Roundup: Should the Fifth Circuit Reconsider Rahimi En Banc?” Stephen Halbrook has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 2:51 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Stanford Disruption: Who Should be Apologizing to Whom? There have been too few apologies for what transpired, not too many.” Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

And at Balls and Strikes, Elie Mystal has a post titled “Why Elite Law Schools Always Cave to Whatever Federalist Society Judges Want; Stanford Law School’s cowardly apology to Kyle Duncan demonstrates how institutionalists will always protect their institution — even if that means hanging the people who comprise it out to dry.”

Posted at 2:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“Sorry, Clarence Thomas, but Supreme Court Ethics Reform Is on the Table; A plan to save the high court from its own excesses — with bipartisan buy-in — is gathering steam; Here are the next steps to build on the unexpected momentum”: Simon Lazarus has this essay online at The New Republic.

Posted at 1:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Did State Supreme Court Races Get So Expensive? Wisconsin’s is only the latest example.” Nathaniel Rakich of FiveThirtyEight has this report.

Posted at 1:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why Ginsburg’s Age Didn’t Doom Her Candidacy; RBG’s debt to the twelve Reagan-Bush years”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

Posted at 12:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kavanaugh and Alito said judges would be out of the abortion equation. That’s not the case.” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

Posted at 12:44 PM by Howard Bashman