National News

Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not plan to retire soon, reports Adam Liptak of the New York Times.  And a great story about a bank robber who became a law student who then got a prestigious Federal clerkship.

How much power does an individual voter have?  An interview about the power of the vote in the United States Senate and article covering the changing dynamic of that power.

Adam Liptak – Inside the Supreme Court

Adam Liptak on his experiences covering the Supreme Court –

Behind the Scene at the Supreme Court

Noteworthy News

BP files a suit to overturn EPA ban on exploration –

"BP Sues U.S. Over Contract Suspensions"

Challenge to Proposition 8 is tossed out of California Court – 

California: Court Rejects Challenge to Gay Marriage

An interesting "Above the Law" piece on Law School return on investment – 

"Which Law Schools Have The Best Return On Investment?"

And an interesting comment on Eric Holder – 

"Eric Holder Preaches To The Choir At ABA: It’s Nice When Lawyers Think People Will Listen To Them About Laws"

Adam Liptak of the New York Times

Adam Liptak's "Sidebar" covers a myriad of topics related to the law.  He writes for the New York Times and covers the Supreme Court.  Below is his New York Times profile and a link to "Sidebar."

"Adam Liptak is the Supreme Court correspondent of The New York Times. Mr. Liptak, a lawyer, joined The Times’s news staff in 2002 and began covering the Supreme Court in the fall of 2008. He has written a column, “Sidebar,” on developments in the law, since 2007. Mr. Liptak’s series on ways in which the United States’s legal system differs from those of other developed nations, “American Exception,” was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting.

In 2005, Mr. Liptak examined the rise in life sentences in the United States in a three-part series. The next year, he and two colleagues studied connections between contributions to the campaigns of justices on the Ohio Supreme Court and those justices’ voting records. He was a member of the teams that examined the reporting of Jayson Blair and Judith Miller at The Times.

Mr. Liptak was born in Stamford, Conn., on Sept. 2, 1960. He first joined The Times as a copyboy in 1984, after graduation from Yale University, where he was an editor of The Yale Daily News Magazine, with a degree in English. In addition to clerical work and fetching coffee, he assisted the reporter M.A. Farber in covering the trial of a libel suit brought by Gen. William Westmoreland against CBS."

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/adam_liptak/index.html?ref=us

Look out Info Privacy Nerds: No 'Legitimate Expectation of Privacy' for Gmail Users

Gmail files brief in federal court 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/13/gmail-privacy_n_3751971.html

Legal News

News Updates – August 13, 2013

U.S. Seeks to Block Airline Merger

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/u-s-seeks-to-block-airline-merger/?hp

Judge Rejects New York’s Stop-and-Frisk Policy

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

Opinion – Racial Discrimination in Stop and Frisk

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/opinion/racial-discrimination-in-stop-and-frisk.html?hp

Opinion – Moving Beyond Stop-and-Frisk  

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/opinion/moving-beyond-stop-and-frisk.html?hp

When Lawyers Cut Their Clients Out of the Deal

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/us/supreme-court-may-hear-novel-class-action-case.html?ref=politics

Court Rulings Blur the Line Between a Spy and a Leaker

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/politics/first-amendments-role-comes-into-question-as-leakers-are-prosecuted.html?ref=adamliptak

Court to Decide if Lawyers Can Block Gays From Juries

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/us/court-weighs-exclusion-of-jurors-because-theyre-gay.html?ref=adamliptak

U.S. Asks Court to Limit Texas on Ballot Rules

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/us/holder-wants-texas-to-clear-voting-changes-with-the-us.html?ref=adamliptak

Three Justices Bound by Beliefs, Not Just Gender

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/bound-together-on-the-court-but-by-beliefs-not-gender.html?ref=adamliptak

Two Powerful Signals of a Major Shift on Crime

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/us/two-powerful-signals-of-a-major-shift-on-crime.html?ref=politics

John Paul Stevens, The Court & the Right to Vote: A Dissent, New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/the-court-right-to-vote-dissent/