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How Appealing Weekly Roundup

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Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.

“U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘major questions’ test may doom Biden student debt plan”: John Kruzel of Reuters has this report.

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentence for Arizona Defendant; Justices rule inmate was illegally barred from telling jury he was ineligible for parole.”

And in commentary, online at Slate, law professor Leah Litman has a jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court Did Something Rare: Enforced a Precedent Conservatives Hate.”

“Supreme Court Turns Down Facebook Police Parody Case Backed by the Onion; The Facebook page’s creator, Anthony Novak, had sued Ohio city for violating his civil rights”: Joseph Pisani of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“15. The Prize Cases and the ‘Dual Theory’ of the Civil War; In upholding President Lincoln’s blockade of Confederate ports, the Supreme Court in March 1863 sustained his ‘dual theory’ of the Civil War; But only by a 5-4 vote”: Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

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