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.
“When copyright law and fashion collide; Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer ’64 explains his dissent in a case involving cheerleading uniforms”: Rebecca Beyer of Harvard Law Today has this report.
Keeping Law School Accessible When Federal Loans Fall Short
As federal borrowing caps tighten financing options for law students, one organization is stepping in to negotiate the terms they can't secure alone.
“Supreme Court Audition Watch: Lawrence VanDyke Is a Guns YouTuber Now; When the competition for a promotion is this stiff, you have to start trying some stuff.” Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.
“Administration Officials Believe Order Lets Immigration Agents Enter Homes Without Warrants; It remains unclear whether the Trump administration will apply the law in this way; But such an interpretation, experts say, would infringe on basic civil liberties”: Devlin Barrett of The New York Times has this report.
“How the Justice Department is remaking itself in Trump’s image; Attorney General Pam Bondi has curtailed the agency’s anti-corruption efforts, ratcheted up immigration enforcement and redirected the civil rights division”: Jeremy Roebuck, Mark Berman, Perry Stein, and Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post have this report.
“7th Circuit’s Sykes to take senior status, creating vacancy for Trump”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.
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“The Courts Alone Can’t Save Us”: Law professor Stephen I. Vladeck has this guest essay online at The New York Times.