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  Corrente — Authority: 622
  Pravda buries the lead: Allies [of departing White House counsel Gregory Craig] also note that he oversaw the successful confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and praised him for trying to keep Obama in synch with some of the ideologically liberal ideas he promoted in the campaign. McClatchy ...
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• New Profile of Justice Sonia Sotomayor in Latina Magazine

  
  DISSENTING JUSTICE — Authority: 514
  Latina will profile Justice Sonia Sotomayor in its December/January issue, which becomes available on November 17. The magazine has posted a lengthy excerpt from the article on its website. Here is a snip: When Obama won the White House, the legal world hedged their bets on the brilliant judge with the ...
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• Federalist Society Convention Kicks Off With Call to Oppose Obama Judge Picks

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 774
  Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) kicked off the annual Federalist Society convention today with a call to oppose President Obama’s liberal nominees for the federal judiciary, Legal Times reports . “We are in a long and difficult fight,” Sessions told the gathering of leading conservative lawyers, judges and law ...
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• Carrie Prejean: Completely Inappropriate and Unprofessional

  
  Woman Tribune — Authority: 431
  So Carrie Prejean somehow got a book deal. I don’t know exactly how she accomplished this, perhaps she told Regnery Press that she would sue them if they didn’t agree to publish a memoir of more of her whining about fighting gossip that she put out in the world herself to be found and about hate and political ...
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• Does Sen. Sessions Think Wishing Makes It So?

  
  Justice Watch — Authority: 415
  Looks like Senator Sessions (R-AL) thinks that if he keeps saying over and over that Judge Hamilton is too radical to be a circuit court judge, it will somehow come true. At the Federalist Society Convention today Sessions said: "... Hamiltons record, I think, is troubling, as Ive just indicated. He worked for ...
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• Justice Sonia Sotomayor says: "the problem with every test is that you can find an exception that makes the application ridiculous."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 748
  Doesnt that just make you want to think of a rule that does not require an exception to avoid ridiculousness? Then arent you intrigued by the paradox that you will have just come up with an exception to her rule (about the need for exceptions to avoid ridiculousness), and that will simultaneously support and ...
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• ACTION ALERT: Tell Your Senator to Filibuster Judge David Hamilton

  
  brianlee — Authority: 136
  A current action alert from www.redstate.com on a judicial nominee. Tell Your Senator to Filibuster Judge David Hamilton Senator Jeff Sessions is calling on his colleagues to filibuster Judge David Hamilton. Call or e-mail your Senator. Tell your Senator to oppose cloture on Judge Hamilton and support ...
  3 days ago

• Justice Sotomayor, Perhaps “Speed Dating” Should Be Patent-Eligible After All

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 568
  Charles R. Macedo is a partner at Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP , and the author of The Corporate Insider’s Guide to US Patent Practice , which provides a basic understanding of patent practice in the United States as it relates to both obtaining and enforcing patents. Macedo’s practice specializes in ...
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• Justice Sotomayor Gets Candid in Decembers Latina

  
  Blogamole — Authority: 478
  How much do you know about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor? The Justice is featured in the December issue of Latina where the mag outlines Sotomayors feelings on marriage, love, her desire to pull her name from consideration weeks before President Obamas nomination, and how shes keeping it Latina in the ...
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• Why It Is So Important to Have Women On the Supreme Court

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 140
  Well, there are a lot of reasons we should have more women on the U.S. Supreme Court, but I was recently struck by the difference in questioning by the two women and the seven male justices deciding whether it was okay to lock up juvenile offenders for life without parole -- even when they dont kill anybody. The ...
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• Bilski: Reading the Tea Leaves

  
  Chicago IP Litigation Blog — Authority: 462
  The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the Bilski case Monday afternoon.  Click here for a transcript of the arguments.  Here are a few of the highlights from Bilskis argument: JUSTICE GINSBURG: But you say you would say tax avoidance methods are covered, just as the process here is covered. So an estate ...
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• News Coverage of the Juvenile Sentencing Cases

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  As noted yesterday , the transcripts of Sullivan v. Graham and Sullivan v. Florida are available via the Courts website. Scotus Wiki files for Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida contain all briefing. Lyle Denniston expanded his initial SCOTUS Blog post, " Analysis: The Chief leads on juvenile ...
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• Sotomayor 4 Latina Mag. Cover

  
  Hip Hop Honey Online Magazine — Authority: 500
  Sonia Sotomayor heeded White House advice to paint her fingernails a neutral shade during her Supreme Court confirmation process — up to a point. At a White House reception after her confirmation, Sotomayor showed her freshly painted red nails to President Barack Obama, along with her red-and-black semi-hoop ...
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• Sotomayor Covers The December Issue of Latina [Reining Supreme]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 815
  Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor prefers red fingernails and hoop earrings? Sonia from the Block represents on newsstands starting on November 17th. [ Yahoo ]
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• AP: DC Sniper Execution Causes Fear | Sweetness & Light

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 464
  The Supreme Court Monday rejected the petition, John Allen Muhammad, to stop the execution, paving the way for Virginia to kill the man who terrorized the Washington area as the Beltway Sniper. Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection in a Virginia prison for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station for one ...
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• Bilski Heard by Supreme Court; Hilarity Ensues

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 130
  Why should everybody care about the Bilski case that was just heard at the Supreme Court? Pending the result of this case, patent law and the dissemination of technical information may never be the same. The petitioner claims that the metric for developing a current patent is insufficient into cover the algorithms ...
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• Sonia Sotomayor an active questioner, unlike some we can name...

  
  Suits & Sentences — Authority: 469
  Suits & Sentences will just come right out and say it: Justice Sonia Sotomayor has already asked more oral-argument questions in a month than Justice Clarence Thomas has asked in his entire 18-year Supreme Court career. That doesnt make her a better judge, of course. But still... Its actually very hard to figure ...
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• Death to Muhammad

  
  Odd Citizen — Authority: 125
  From USA Today the news that the Supreme Court refused to block the execution of John Allen Muhammad, the so-called “DC Sniper.” It is no surprise that Obama’s appointee, Justice Sotomayor, joined with two other liberal court members to disparage the court decision. Justices Stevens, joined by Ginsburg ...
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• Supreme Court denies stay of execution for D.C. sniper

  
  USATODAY.com Money - Block — Authority: 837
  USA Todays Joan Biskupic reports that the Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution for John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway sniper.
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• Just a Piece of Parchment

  
  This Is So Gay — Authority: 118
  I happened on this amusing cartoon yesterday. I am not sure who linked to it; it was originally posted at the right-wing blog Get Liberty , which bills itself as favoring limited government. As far as I can tell from its archives, Get Liberty only became concerned about unlimited government in March 2009; before ...
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