Monday round-up
As Lyle Denniston reported for this blog, last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a federal law prohibiting protests and demonstrations on the Supreme Court’s plaza.
August 2015 Archive
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Former governor to remain free during appeal
Raising the chance that the Supreme Court will review his case, former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell on Monday gained the right to stay out of prison while that appeal goes forward.
Final reminder: SCOTUSblog is hiring
The blog and Goldstein & Russell, P.C., are looking for someone to serve as both the firm manager for Goldstein & Russell, P.C., and the deputy manager of SCOTUSblog.
Same-sex marriage issue returns to the Court (FURTHER UPDATED)
UPDATED Saturday 7:49 a.m. Relying upon the history, dating back to America’s founding, of the right of conscience, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court on Friday night to protect her from taking an official action that she regards as an indication that she supports same-sex marriage, an act that would violate her faith.
Court now can ban protests on its threshold
More than two years after a federal judge took away most of the Supreme Court’s power to prohibit all picketing, protests, and other demonstrations on the plaza in front of its building, a federal appeals court revived that authority on Friday in a lengthy opinion.
Symposium: Another battle in the war over union fees
Charlotte Garden is an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law and Litigation Director of the Korematsu Center for Law & Equality. Across America, an intense debate is taking place over how states should structure their labor relations, and especially the extent to which state and local government employees should have the right to elect unions to represent them in collective bargaining.
Friday round-up
Briefly: Anthony Franze and Reeves Anderson conducted their annual review of amicus practice at the Court for The National Law Journal; they conclude that it was another record-breaking year for amici, which has essentially become the “new norm.” In both The Hill and American Thinker, Sean Roman
Symposium: Correcting the “historical accident” of opt-out requirements
David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Andrew M. Grossman practice appellate litigation in the Washington, D.C., office of Baker & Hostetler LLP. They filed an amicus brief in support of certiorari in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association on behalf of the Cato Institute, where Mr. Grossman is an adjunct scholar.
Thursday round-up
As Lyle Denniston reported yesterday for this blog, Nebraska has filed a petition for rehearing en banc in the Eighth Circuit, asking the full court to declare a challenge to its ban on same-sex marriage moot and thereby “keep seven Nebraska couples from pursuing their case further and seeking to recover the money they spent for their lawyers’ fees.” Howard Wasserman weighs in on the rehearing request at PrawfsBlawg.
Symposium: The Friedrichs petition should be dismissed
Catherine Fisk is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.