Law360 has SCOTUSblog Sold Amid Goldstein’s Criminal Case
SCOTUSblog has been sold to digital media company The Dispatch, according to announcements from both publications Wednesday, marking a new chapter for the U.S. Supreme Court-focused legal publication while its co-founder Tom Goldstein faces criminal charges.
SCOTUSblog will still be free to readers, and its already published content will continue to be governed by a Creative Commons license that allows for noncommercial use. But future content will now fall under The Dispatch’s copyright, according to the announcements.
And ‘Minute Entry’ Isn’t A Real Judicial Order, 2nd Circ. Told
A Second Circuit panel on Wednesday seemed skeptical of a plastic resin producer’s claim that a Connecticut federal district judge’s oral ruling and follow-up minute entry weren’t formal orders triggering a deadline to appeal several contract dispute losses totaling $1.7 million.
See also Judges Bring Oral Arguments to Law School Campuses, highlighting the 9th Circuit’s sitting at USD Law School.
“Sitting at law schools gives the students a chance to see the court up close and personal,” said Judge M. Margaret McKeown, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, who recently participated in oral arguments at University of San Diego School of Law. “We follow the arguments with a lively question and answer session and then a lunch with the students. What better way to spend our time than with the next generation of lawyers?”