Ed.
Note:
A
weekly
roundup
of
just
a
few
items
from
Howard
Bashman’s
How
Appealing
blog,
the
Web’s
first
blog
devoted
to
appellate
litigation.
Check
out
these
stories
and
more
at
How
Appealing.
“Axed
activist-investor
takeover
leaves
Supreme
Court
at
loggerheads
over
legislative
intent;
A
disagreement
over
judicial
interpretation
led
to
riffs
from
the
bench
on
judges’
preferences
supplanting
the
will
of
the
people”: Kelsey
Reichmann
of
Courthouse
News
Service
has this
report.
“Florida
Reinstates
Trump
Lawyer
Chesebro
Despite
Guilty
Plea”: Alex
Ebert
of
Bloomberg
Law
has this
report.
“Arkansas
asks
Eighth
Circuit
to
revive
law
targeting
librarians
over
‘harmful’
books;
The
state
argues
the
law
protects
children
and
regulates
government
speech,
but
librarians
and
booksellers
claim
it
criminalizes
availability
and
enables
viewpoint
discrimination”: Gabriel
Tynes
of
Courthouse
News
Service
has this
report.
“Solo
dissents
are
uncommon.
Justice
Kagan
just
made
her
first.
Justice
Elena
Kagan’s
first
solo
dissent
came
nearly
16
years
after
she
joined
the
Supreme
Court
bench.” Law
professors Grant
Christensen and Anne
Mullins have this
essay online
at
The
Washington
Post.
“Penn
&
Teller
call
out
‘flim-flam’
in
Supreme
Court
death
penalty
case;
The
master
manipulators
of
perception
said
they
have
an
obligation
to
expose
the
type
of
junk
science
they
said
was
used
to
convict
a
man
of
murder”: Maureen
Groppe
of
USA
Today
has this
report.