Evening round-up: Today’s oral arguments
on Apr 22, 2014 at 9:02 pm
Today the Court heard oral argument in Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus and American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo. Writing for this blog, Mark Walsh provides an “’view’ from the Court” for this big day. Early coverage in the first case, a First Amendment challenge to an Ohio law that criminalizes false statements in political campaigns, comes from Jaclyn Belczyk of Jurist, Paige Winfield Cunningham of Politico, Joan Biskupic of Reuters, Sam Hananel of the Associated Press, and Deirdre Shesgreen of USA Today. Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog and Eugene Volokh of The Volokh Conspiracy provide early commentary. This blog’s Lyle Denniston covers the argument in Aereo, which involves copyright issues for paid Internet streaming of free TV. Other coverage comes from Greg Stohr and Alex Barinka of Bloomberg News, Lawrence Hurley of Reuters, David G. Savage of the Los Angeles Times, Adam Liptak of The New York Times, Richard Wolf of USA Today, Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal, Cecilia Kang of The Washington Post, and Julian Hattem of The Hill. Early commentary comes from Megan McArdle of Bloomberg View, Daniel Fisher of Forbes, and J.J. Colao also of Forbes. Lastly, video coverage of the case comes from Reuters with Amy Howe of this blog and BTIG’s Rich Greenfield.
