Blog Round-Up – Monday, November 14th

The identity of Article III Groupie of Underneath Their Robes is revealed!

Concurring Opinions has this updated post on statistics related to professors who blog.

Law.com has posted this article on Hope v. Pelzer. In 2002 the Supreme Court, by 6-3 majority, cleared the way for Hope, an Alabama inmate, to sue guards who left him handcuffed to a hitching post for seven hours. However, on Nov. 8, Judge Karon O. Bowdre of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama granted the state’s motion to dismiss the suit after Hope’s lawyer finished presenting Hope’s case to a jury.

The Washington Post’s blog on the Court has posted this speech by Karl Rove to the Federalist Society last week in which he describes our courts in crisis.

Crime & Federalism has this post on why the Court should grant cert in United States of America v. Jose Antonio Perez. The petition asks the Supreme Court to reconsider whether the certainty of an eyewitness identification ought to be a factor a court considers when determining whether a suggestive identification is nonetheless sufficiently reliable to satisfy the requirements of due process.

PrawfsBlawg has this post responding to yesterday’s article in the New York Times describing Yale Law School’s reaction to the Alito nomination.

The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal now has posted this op-ed by Eugene Volokh on Alito’s libertarian outlook on the First Amendment.