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21 hours ago ago from FREELANCE RIGHTS
The Supreme Court today released its first decisions for this term, but ours was not among them. We think the next decisions will be out on January 11-12. (Thanks to blog reader Moxie for monitoring with us.)
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11 hours ago ago from Corporate Legal Times Magazine
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court's newest member, got to deliver the Supreme Court's first opinion of the new term. It was also Sotomayor's first opinion as a Supreme Court justice. The case was Mohawk Industries v. Carpenter, which involved a question of whether a lower court's decision on attorney-client privilege can be appealed to a higher court.
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16 hours ago ago from New Hampshire Watchdog
Over at the best legal blog in the country, the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh predicts that this will be a big term for the First Amendment . Between Citizens United (which has to do with corporate speech related to candidates for office), Stevens (which is an important case about the limits of the “produced using criminal conduct” rationale for punishing speech, the “lacks serious value” rationale for punishing speech, and the ...
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1 hour, 6 minutes ago ago from The New York Times
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