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Stohr catches Breyer's switch

By Mark Obbie

I'm just now coming up for air from the workday, so I'm not up on what everyone else might be reporting from the first Monday in October at the Supreme Court. This Greg Stohr story strikes me, though, as smart and enterprising. Using Stephen Breyer's latest financial disclosure form, context on Breyer's history of finance-related recusals, a good eye for cases Breyer is participating in (despite his past holdings), and good questions that got direct answers from the Supreme Court press office (on Breyer's recent stock sales), Stohr gives his business readers important intelligence. So good on him. Of course, I'll retract my gushing praise if it turns out that everyone caught this story today. But Stohr certainly wrote this in a way that suggests it wasn't a handout. And, I'm reassured by a last-minute check at Legal Times -- home of Tony Mauro, the next most likely reporter to have zeroed in on this -- where Bloomberg gets the credit for this scoop. (Via How Appealing.)Update: Lyle Denniston also gives Stohr the nod for this.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).