Tuesday round-up
on Apr 7, 2015 at 9:57 am
Briefly:
- At Education Week’s School Law Blog, Mark Walsh reports on yesterday’s cert. denial in “a case involving allegations that a Pennsylvania school district systematically funneled a disproportionate number of African-American students into special education.”
- At The Hill, Mario Trujillo reports on recent comments by members of Congress suggesting that the Court “has itself to blame for the surreptitious recordings of court proceedings that have surfaced in the past year.”
- At The Motley Fool, Sean Williams asserts that, “whether you’re a supporter or opponent of Obamacare, you may have missed an important ‘ruling’ from the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week that resulted in Obamacare logging a key victory.”
- At Hamilton and Griffin on Rights, Janai Nelson discusses last week’s opinion in the Alabama redistricting cases, arguing that the decision “preserved an important nuance of Section 5 [of the Voting Rights Act] that will enable the law to operate effectively, particularly once Congress restores that provision to full strength.”
- In The National Law Journal (subscription required), Tony Mauro reports that “Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.’s offhand 2011 criticism of law review articles . . . has finally met its match in the form of … a law review article.””
- Writing for the Supreme Court Brief (subscription required), Mauro discusses a new law review article that explores “why the justices always save their biggest cases until the end of the term.”
- At the blog of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, Andrea Field discusses the recent oral arguments in the challenge to the EPA’s regulations of utility emissions,
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