Tory v. Cochran Mootness Update
We’re advised (by a student in Erwin Chemerinsky’s class, who sent along a helpful note) that the Court has called for briefing on the mootness question, with a brief from Cochran’s lawyers in seven days and Tory’s lawyers three days after that.

Can the Supreme Court Still Rule On Johnnie Cochran’s Freedom-of-Speech Case?
Johnnie Cochran, the all-star attorney who defended high-profile clients such as O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, and Snoop Dogg, died yesterday of a brain tumor. Just last Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Tory v. Cochran, a case in…
Comment by The Legal Reader — April 1, 2005 @ 10:58 pm