{"id":143015,"date":"2026-01-30T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/30\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-42\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:25:36","slug":"how-appealing-weekly-roundup-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/30\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-42\/","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

Handling of Pretti investigation has some prosecutors on verge of quitting; Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, frustrated by the response to the shootings of Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti, have suggested they could resign en masse\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Perry Stein of The Washington Post has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNinth Circuit revives challenge to Idaho library book censorship law; The court found the law likely violates the First Amendment by allowing subjective, age-based censorship\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Monique Merrill of Courthouse News Service has\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0a ruling<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit<\/a>\u00a0issued today.<\/p>\n

\u201cTom Goldstein Saga Could Go From Courtroom To Big Screen\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Rachel Rippetoe of Law360 has\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0(subscription required for full access).<\/p>\n

\u201cAppeals Court Rules in Favor of Protections for Venezuelans; The Trump administration has sought to end Temporary Protected Status for more than a million people from troubled nations; About 600,000 are from Venezuela\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Jazmine Ulloa of The New York Times has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Ethicist \u2018in the Scalia Mold\u2019: The Minnesota Judge Blasting ICE; Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely foil for his criticism of the Trump administration\u2019s tactics in Minnesota.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Zach Montague of The New York Times has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Supreme Court Should Take Up the USAA Case to Bring Clarity to the Esoteric \u2018Abstract Ideas\u2019 Doctrine of\u00a0Alice<\/em>\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Gene Quinn has\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0at IPWatchdog.<\/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

Handling of Pretti investigation has some prosecutors on verge of quitting; Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, frustrated by the response to the shootings of Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti, have suggested they could resign en masse\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Perry Stein of The Washington Post has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNinth Circuit revives challenge to Idaho library book censorship law; The court found the law likely violates the First Amendment by allowing subjective, age-based censorship\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Monique Merrill of Courthouse News Service has\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0a ruling<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit<\/a>\u00a0issued today.<\/p>\n

\u201cTom Goldstein Saga Could Go From Courtroom To Big Screen\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Rachel Rippetoe of Law360 has\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0(subscription required for full access).<\/p>\n

\u201cAppeals Court Rules in Favor of Protections for Venezuelans; The Trump administration has sought to end Temporary Protected Status for more than a million people from troubled nations; About 600,000 are from Venezuela\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Jazmine Ulloa of The New York Times has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Ethicist \u2018in the Scalia Mold\u2019: The Minnesota Judge Blasting ICE; Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely foil for his criticism of the Trump administration\u2019s tactics in Minnesota.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Zach Montague of The New York Times has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Supreme Court Should Take Up the USAA Case to Bring Clarity to the Esoteric \u2018Abstract Ideas\u2019 Doctrine of\u00a0Alice<\/em>\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Gene Quinn has\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0at IPWatchdog.<\/p>\n

The post How Appealing Weekly Roundup<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/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. Handling of Pretti investigation has some prosecutors on verge of quitting; Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, frustrated by the response to the shootings […]<\/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-143015","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\/143015","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=143015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143015\/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=143015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}