{"id":136142,"date":"2025-10-31T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/31\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-33\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:47:56","slug":"how-appealing-weekly-roundup-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/31\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-33\/","title":{"rendered":"How Appealing Weekly Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em>: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s How Appealing blog<\/a>, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAll It Took for Trump to Dismantle the Justice Dept.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Carol Leonnig has\u00a0this guest essay<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecond Circuit finds Snapchat parodies of George Floyd murder fall outside school purview; The New York-based appeals court reversed the dismissal of a Sullivan County student\u2019s $1 million defamation suit against the high school that suspended him over social media posts that caused a stir locally in 2021\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service has\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0a decision<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit<\/a>\u00a0issued today.<\/p>\n

\u201cCox names Outside attorney to serve as Alaska\u2019s solicitor general\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Iris Samuels of The Anchorage Daily News has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas judges can now refuse to officiate gay weddings on religious grounds; The Texas Supreme Court quietly made a tweak to the state rules on judicial conduct that could make it harder for gay couples to marry\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Gwen Howerton of Chron has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTop Border Patrol official no longer has to appear today before Chicago federal judge after appeals court ruling\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Devan Cole and Elizabeth Wolfe of CNN have\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0an order<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit<\/a>\u00a0issued today.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrediction Markets See a Close Call on Trump Tariff Case at Supreme Court; Trump\u2019s tariffs are heading for a Supreme Court showdown and bettors see a close call\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Laura Curtis of Bloomberg News has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Supreme Court decision could basically guarantee higher inflation; When politicians meddle in monetary policy, inflation inevitably follows\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0John W. Snow and Christopher Smith have\u00a0this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at The Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em><\/u>: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s How Appealing blog<\/a>, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.<\/em><\/p>\n

The post How Appealing Weekly Roundup<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em>: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s How Appealing blog<\/a>, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAll It Took for Trump to Dismantle the Justice Dept.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Carol Leonnig has\u00a0this guest essay<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecond Circuit finds Snapchat parodies of George Floyd murder fall outside school purview; The New York-based appeals court reversed the dismissal of a Sullivan County student\u2019s $1 million defamation suit against the high school that suspended him over social media posts that caused a stir locally in 2021\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service has\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0a decision<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit<\/a>\u00a0issued today.<\/p>\n

\u201cCox names Outside attorney to serve as Alaska\u2019s solicitor general\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Iris Samuels of The Anchorage Daily News has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas judges can now refuse to officiate gay weddings on religious grounds; The Texas Supreme Court quietly made a tweak to the state rules on judicial conduct that could make it harder for gay couples to marry\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Gwen Howerton of Chron has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTop Border Patrol official no longer has to appear today before Chicago federal judge after appeals court ruling\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Devan Cole and Elizabeth Wolfe of CNN have\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0an order<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit<\/a>\u00a0issued today.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrediction Markets See a Close Call on Trump Tariff Case at Supreme Court; Trump\u2019s tariffs are heading for a Supreme Court showdown and bettors see a close call\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Laura Curtis of Bloomberg News has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Supreme Court decision could basically guarantee higher inflation; When politicians meddle in monetary policy, inflation inevitably follows\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0John W. Snow and Christopher Smith have\u00a0this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at The Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em><\/u>: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s How Appealing blog<\/a>, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s How Appealing blog, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. \u201cAll It Took for Trump to Dismantle the Justice Dept.\u201d\u00a0Carol Leonnig has\u00a0this guest essay\u00a0online at The New York Times. \u201cSecond Circuit finds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-509557490-1615jh.jpeg?fit=2121%2C1414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}