{"id":152684,"date":"2026-05-22T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/22\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:31:11","slug":"how-appealing-weekly-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/22\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup\/","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

\u201cThere Are Scandals. There Is the Law. And Then There\u2019s This.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Emily Bazelon and David French have\u00a0this conversation<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cNY High Court, Volokh Tussle With Hate Speech Law\u2019s Requirements\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Beth Wang of Bloomberg Law has\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0(subscription required for full access).<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump Just Took Us Somewhere the Country Has Never Been Before\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Noah Shachtman has\u00a0this guest essay<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cSupreme Court dismisses death penalty case on people with mental disabilities; The majority dismissed on procedural grounds the case of Joseph Clifton Smith, whose mental faculties skirt the threshold for being spared the death penalty\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAudit Immunity for Trump Family Puts I.R.S. in a Bind; Federal law prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from halting an audit at the direction of the president or his aides\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Andrew Duehren of The New York Times has\u00a0this news analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter languishing in state legislatures across the country, a novel approach to curtailing money in politics becomes law in Hawaii; SB 2471 was crafted allow the state to curb corporate political spending\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Will Lennon and Beatrice Peterson of ABC News have\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/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

\u201cThere Are Scandals. There Is the Law. And Then There\u2019s This.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Emily Bazelon and David French have\u00a0this conversation<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cNY High Court, Volokh Tussle With Hate Speech Law\u2019s Requirements\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Beth Wang of Bloomberg Law has\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0(subscription required for full access).<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump Just Took Us Somewhere the Country Has Never Been Before\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Noah Shachtman has\u00a0this guest essay<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cSupreme Court dismisses death penalty case on people with mental disabilities; The majority dismissed on procedural grounds the case of Joseph Clifton Smith, whose mental faculties skirt the threshold for being spared the death penalty\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAudit Immunity for Trump Family Puts I.R.S. in a Bind; Federal law prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from halting an audit at the direction of the president or his aides\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Andrew Duehren of The New York Times has\u00a0this news analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter languishing in state legislatures across the country, a novel approach to curtailing money in politics becomes law in Hawaii; SB 2471 was crafted allow the state to curb corporate political spending\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Will Lennon and Beatrice Peterson of ABC News have\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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