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How Appealing Weekly Roundup

The week in appellate news.

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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.

“The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Can’t Stop Falling for Phony Plaintiffs”: Sarah Lipton-Lubet has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Supreme Court’s Liberals Are Already Fed Up With This Term”: Jay Willis has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Senior judge disciplined for bullying; Lord Justice Lewis receives formal warning for misconduct”: At his “A Lawyer Writes” Substack site, Joshua Rozenberg has a post that begins, “A member of the Court of Appeal has received a formal warning for misconduct after an inquiry concluded that his behaviour amounted to judicial bullying.”

“The Supreme Court’s uncharacteristic moment of sanity; Justices considering a case against the CFPB seem unlikely to trigger a second Great Depression”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Back to constitutional basics”: Lyle Denniston has this post at his blog.

“The Care and Feeding of Supreme Court Justices: From lavish vacations to fancy dinners, conservative activists have constructed an elaborate infrastructure to reward ideological loyalty on the high court.” Adam Serwer has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“How far are the Supreme Court justices willing to go to remake constitutional law?” Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.