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National Law Journal: Selections from Legal Times Afternoon Update March 8, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, March 8, 2010.

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Supreme Court Puts High-Emotion Funeral Protest Case on Docket

"Few recent confrontations have stirred as much emotion and debate as the spate of funeral protests conducted at funerals for U.S. soldiers killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, the Supreme Court agreed to take up one of the cases stemming from those protests, a hot-button First Amendment dispute that will be argued in the fall"

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Debate Heats Up Over 9th Circuit Nominee

"It was clear even before he was nominated that Goodwin Liu would stir up activists as few other Obama judicial nominees have. Since he was named on Feb. 24, supporters and opponents both have jumped into vigorous debate over what Liu's jurisprudence would look like if he were confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit."

 

Roberts Recuses in New Wyeth Case

"The Supreme Court this morning announced it was granting review in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, a test of the scope of the pre-emption provision of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. It also noted that Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. 'took no part' in the consideration or decision of the Court to take the case."

 

Judge Orders Interior to Re-examine Water Pipeline Plan

"A federal judge in Washington has ordered the Interior Department to re-examine its plans to divert water from the Missouri River into an arid section of North Dakota, granting requests from both the state of Missouri and the Canadian province of Manitoba, which united against the project."

 

Former DOJ Officials, ABA Show Support for Guantanamo Lawyers

"Prominent former Department of Justice officials are joining the growing criticism against efforts to question the ethics and loyalty of current DOJ attorneys who, in private practice, had advocated for Guantanamo Bay detainees".

 

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).