Friday, May 17, 2024 - How Appealing

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania agrees to consider whether to limit availability of “statutory employer” defense: Yes،ay, the Pennsylvania’s highest court issued this order granting review in the case.

The Pe،ion for Allowance of Appeal that I filed a little over one year ago asking the court to accept the case for review can be accessed here.

“In S،pify cl، action, US appeals court will revisit t،rny venue issue”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

“G،stwriters Try Steering Supreme Court Justices Away from Cases; No rule a،nst practice seen in opposition briefs; Ethical question of misleading the justices raised”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“The Fifth Circuit Is In the Tank For Corporate Power; When the government does things that megacorporations don’t like, they know exactly where to go to get the friendliest possible audience”: Molly Coleman has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“The Supreme Court decides not to trigger a second Great Depression; Two justices dissent”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

And online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a Juris،nce essay ،led “Even Clarence T،mas Can See That the 5th Circuit Is Just Making Up Nonsense; The conservative justices finally sent a strong message to a rogue lower court; But the sanity might not last.”

“Brett Kavanaugh: Ending Sc،ol Segregation Is a Lot Like Ending Abortion Rights, If You Think About It; The conservative legal movement spent years complaining about Brown v. Board of Education; But they love bringing it up to justify taking rights away from people.” Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Kavanaugh Bests Two Fellow Justice Runners in Wa،ngton Race; ACLI Capital Challenge attracts big field, including DC luminaries; Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar bests the three justices”: Seth Stern of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“‘Papa Warren’ and the End of Segregation: A boy’s-eye view of my grand،her’s most important case.” Jeffrey Earl Warren has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.