Monday, October 16, 2023

Premature RIP for SCOTUSBlog?

Law360 has SCOTUSblog Death Greatly Exaggerated, Tom Goldstein Says

Law.com has:

‘Extraordinary Achievement’: Lawyers Ask Judge to OK $125M PACER Fees Settlement --Plaintiffs allege the federal judiciary has overcharged the public for documents on the courts' electronic records system.

and

Suspended Judge Newman Discusses Her 'Proclivity of Dissenting' at ABA Event -- “The dissent helps the student to understand the balance that the court decided to reach," the 96-year-old jurist said.
  • Since being appointed to the court in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, Newman has built a reputation as the circuit’s most prolific dissenter. A 2017 study found that Newman had issued 202 dissents across her then 33 years on the bench.
  • “The dissent helps the student to understand the balance that the court decided to reach—what philosophy, what logic, what evidence they rejected as being not probative for whatever reason, and what was accepted. Without the dissent, you don’t have that information because it’s not presented in a majority opinion,” Newman said in a recorded interview with Steven Caltrider, chair of the ABA’s Intellectual Property Law Section and chief IP counsel for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
BHBA presents The Supreme Court’s “Shadow Docket”: A Conversation with Stephen Vladeck on Nov. 6 @ 12:30 via Zoom. USC Law School's interim Dean Franita Tolson will be conversing with Prof. Vladeck.


The October 2023 issue of Litigation Update is now online, keeping you up to date on current case law. And, speaking of CLA's Litigation Section:

Committee on Appellate Courts Programs

From S.D.Cal.: The 2023 State of the District and Hon. David H. Bartick Award Luncheon will be held on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Attendees will receive updates regarding the operation of the Court from Chief Judge Dana M. Sabraw, Magistrate Judge Karen S. Crawford, Chief Bankruptcy Judge Christopher B. Latham, and Ninth Circuit Judge John B. Owens