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The morning read for Friday, October 27

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Clarence Thomas loan report spurs new ethics criticism of US Supreme Court (Andrew Chung & John

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An appellate court’s claimed “defiance” in a death-penalty case

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Welcome back! Since our last installment two weeks ago, the Supreme Court granted review o

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Must federal government permit “Trump too small” trademark?

Wednesday’s argument in Vidal v. Elster is the third in a series of First Amendment challenges to provisions of the Lanham Act that bar registration of various kinds of scurrilous marks. In the first, Matal v. Tam, the Supreme Court held that it violated

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Sellers of carved wood furniture spar over relevance of copying in trademark

The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In June, a unanimous Supreme Court threw out a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals f

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