Friday, August 1, 2008

Game On

Since I still have time to read news online, I still have time to post the interesting articles that I stumble across. Sorry to deprive ya'll of my rambling commentary (and possibly euphuistic writing style, if you agree with a certain friend of mine).

The court battle over the fate of several Mexican nationals on death row in Texas continues:
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/move-to-head-off-medellin-execution/#more-7753

This is a tricky situation where the need to respect the "law" as a sort of meta-institutional ideal might trump expedient "justice" (at least in a retributive form, these guys were convicted of gang rape and murder).

Also back in the legal headlines is Joseph Heller, the plaintiff in the landmark DC handgun case. He's challenging the changes that the District of Columbia made in response to the Court's ruling in DC v. Heller (which I still want to flesh out in a blog post): http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423333307

This is only the first of what will most likely be many, many lawsuits that are designed to test the limits/clarify Justice Scalia's vague opinion.