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.
“Axed activist-investor takeover leaves Supreme Court at loggerheads over legislative intent; A disagreement over judicial interpretation led to riffs from the bench on judges’ preferences supplanting the will of the people”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.
“Florida Reinstates Trump Lawyer Chesebro Despite Guilty Plea”: Alex Ebert of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Arkansas asks Eighth Circuit to revive law targeting librarians over ‘harmful’ books; The state argues the law protects children and regulates government speech, but librarians and booksellers claim it criminalizes availability and enables viewpoint discrimination”: Gabriel Tynes of Courthouse News Service has this report.
“Solo dissents are uncommon. Justice Kagan just made her first. Justice Elena Kagan’s first solo dissent came nearly 16 years after she joined the Supreme Court bench.” Law professors Grant Christensen and Anne Mullins have this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Penn & Teller call out ‘flim-flam’ in Supreme Court death penalty case; The master manipulators of perception said they have an obligation to expose the type of junk science they said was used to convict a man of murder”: Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.