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Legal notes, mostly SD-based

The malaise continues. So, here’s a couple legal items of interest, most stemming from South Dakota as we seem to be stepping up interesting legal affairs here:

As most have heard, former Gov. Bill Janklow is getting his law license back. I will simply say I agree with the majority opinion (PDF file) (five circuit […]

South Dakota Supremes and internet child porn

While I don’t practice criminal law today’s decision by the South Dakota Supreme Court may be of interest. Basically, the Court said the existence of temporary internet files of child porn on a computer are sufficient to justify a search warrant for the PC and the office in which it was located.

In the case, […]

Interesting South Dakota religion case

In case you missed the AP story, the South Dakota Supreme Court will hear arguments next Tuesday in a somewhat different religion case.

Here’s the basic tale: The Holy Family Catholic church in Mitchell wants to tear down the Notre Dame Academy, a nearly century old school building that closed a few years ago. Local […]

Some (temporary) parting Alito notes

While it drives traffic to the site, I am going to move on from the Alito nomination to more mundane things of daily life. Just a few notes on the way out that door:

First, I find it interesting the Sen. Tim Johnson was the second Senator with whom Alito met. Could it be there’s […]

Nomination info sources

There are some basically nonpartisan sources of information out there as the Alito nomination moves through the process. From my standpoint, two of the best are How Appealing and SCOTUSblog.

The former is run by Howard Bashman and is devoted largely to providing links to stories and information on appellate litigation. As a result, it […]