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Ed. note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.
“Judicial record undermines Clarence Thomas defence in luxury gifts scandal; Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow was linked to a conservative group that had court business while Thomas was on the bench”: Ed Pilkington of The Guardian (UK) has this report.
“Democrats press Michael Chertoff for answers about Supreme Court’s investigation into leaked abortion opinion”: Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed, and Joan Biskupic of CNN have this report. You can access the letter at this link.
“How Rich Is the US Supreme Court? Justices listed between $24 million and $68 million in assets; Ethics scandals reinvigorated scrutiny of Supreme Court wealth.” Emily Birnbaum and Bill Allison of Bloomberg News have this report.
“Federal Circuit Probe of Judge’s Fitness Risks Protracted Battle”: Michael Shapiro and Riddhi Setty of Bloomberg Law have this report.
As Dennis Crouch of the “Patently-O” blog noted on Twitter, Judge Newman was a panelist on the closing panel of last week’s Fordham IP Conference, and she speaks at 4:46 mark of this video of that panel.
“True Threats, Free Speech, and Federalism”: Eric Segall has this post at “Dorf on Law.”
“23. The Resignation of Justice Fortas: The only scandal-impelled resignation of a Supreme Court Justice in the Court’s history provides a revealing yardstick against which to measure current events.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.
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