The Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights [Gerard Magliocca in Concurring Opinions, 9/10/14]: As part of the research for my next book, I want to correct something that I said earlier.  I’ve written that the Supreme Court did not call the first set of amendments a bill of rights until 1893.  Turns out that is not quite right.  It was 1897.

http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2014/09/the-supreme-court-and-the-bill-of-rights.html

9^th Circuit to Video Stream High-Profile Cases [Press release, 9/9/14]: Two high-profile cases to be heard next week by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will be available for Internet viewing via live video streaming from the James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco.

http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/absolutenm/templates/template_ce9.aspx?articleid=753&zoneid=1

Wife-beating is not a private matter [Jeffrey Toobin at CNN, 9/9/14]: The prominent man had an altercation with his wife at a hotel. He beat her up. There's even a recording of it. And what happened? A plea deal so generous that the abuser's arrest record will be expunged -- totally clean, as if the whole thing had never happened -- if he receives some counseling in the next few months. Ray Rice? Yes. But Rice's case is strikingly similar to that of Mark Fuller, a sitting federal judge in Alabama.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/09/opinion/toobin-wife-beating-not-a-private-matter/index.html

9th Circuit Finds Bias in Jury Selection [CNS, 9/10/14]: Prosecutors in a murder trial discriminated against Hispanics when selecting jurors, the 9th Circuit ruled Tuesday, overturning the conviction of man who was charged with the second-degree murder of a young boy.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/09/10/71217.htm

See the California Appellate Report (9/9/10) comment on this case:

http://calapp.blogspot.com/2014/09/castellanos-v-small-9th-cir-sept-9-2014g.html

The case is Castellans v. Small. Find it here:

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/09/09/12-55783.pdf

Two New Rulings Unmask the Weakness of the Case Against Marriage Equality [Justia, 9/10/14]: Michael Dorf comments on two recent rulings on state bans on same-sex marriage. He explains how a comparison of these two rulings reveals weaknesses in the case against marriage equality.

http://verdict.justia.com/2014/09/10/two-new-rulings-unmask-weakness-case-marriage-equality

Workplace Bullying Legislation Imposes New Training Requirements for Supervisors [AALR, 9/10/14]: Just as national attention on student and minor cyberbullying prompted legislation by many states, now workplace bullying is also receiving attention and has now received legislative action.

http://www.aalrreducationlaw.com/workplace-bullying-legislation-imposes-new-training-requirements-for-supervisors/

See AB 2053:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/asm/ab_2051-2100/ab_2053_bill_20140220_introduced.pdf