Thursday round-up
on Sep 24, 2015 at 8:52 am
Briefly:
- In The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro reports on the Justices’ plans to participate in events surrounding Pope Francis’s visit to Washington.
- In a post for the Supreme Court Brief (subscription or registration required), Mauro also reports on the complicated division of argument time in three Kansas capital cases that will be argued during the Court’s October sitting.
- At the Pacific Legal Foundation’s Liberty Blog, Raymond Nhan contends that “recent historical demographics from Texas suggest that the University of Texas’s (UT) admissions policy — which is before the Supreme Court this term — is an attempt to racially balance the student body,” and he urges the Court to “be skeptical about the University’s justification because of the school’s history of racial preference.”
- At Fortune, Roger Parloff discusses the “controversial insider trading cases of former hedge fund portfolio managers Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson” that will be before the Court at its Conference next week, and he reports that “the appeals are beset with a major procedural anomaly that undercuts their chances of acceptance.”
- In The Economist, Steven Mazie discusses Apple’s plans to ask the Court to review a ruling by a federal appeals court agreeing “that the computing giant broke the law when it entered the e-book market in 2010.”
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