Monday round-up

By Amy Howe
on May 16, 2016 at 6:39 am

Briefly:

• BuzzFeed reports on last week’s denial of Alabama’s request to vacate a lower-court stay of Vernon Madison’s execution, which had been scheduled for Thursday.
• The James Wilson Institute recently hosted a “Friends of Nino” panel (video) to pay tribute to the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
• Alexander Heffner of The Open Mind interviewed Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow about (among other things) the current Supreme Court nomination battle.
• At his eponymous blog, Kenneth Jost discusses the latest developments in the case of Henry Montgomery; earlier this year, the Court ruled in the Louisiana inmate’s case that a prior decision barring mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles who committed murder applies retroactively.
• In The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro reports that at “least three of the four law clerks hired by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for the next term will work for other justices.”

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