[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/19/11

Sun Jun 19 15:38:45 PDT 2011

 For humor on this listerv, this is darn good:

"It's a lucky thing that Canadian college professor Laurel-Ann Hardie has a good sense of humour. Her laugh-out-loud name - a near-perfect echo of Laurel and Hardy, the wise-cracking, slapsticking, Bowler-topped comedy act from early Hollywood - prompted a sudden flurry of Internet interest this week after a Twittering wag from Britain expressed his astonishment over Hardie's homonymous handle. 

"Hardie made clear, however, that "my parents DID NOT give me this name," explaining that she changed her surname from Hasen after her marriage to James Hardie in 1982."

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Professor+name+laughing+matter/4961546/story.html#ixzz1PlQl6Ej9

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>
To: law-election <law-election at uci.edu>
Sent: Sun, Jun 19, 2011 12:50 am
Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/19/11

 “Split Latino Vote Subject of Redistricting          Hearing” 

        Posted on June 18, 2011        by Rick Hasen 

The Orange County Register offers this            report.

  Posted            in citizen            commissions, redistricting         | Comments Off 

 “Voter ID bill veto expected by North Carolina          Gov. Perdue” 

        Posted on June 18, 2011        by Rick Hasen 

AP reports.

  Posted            in voter id         | Comments Off 

 More on the New Republican          Strategy to Bypass DOJ When Seeking Preclearance 

        Posted on June 18, 2011        by Rick Hasen 

Christian Adams blogs.

  Posted            in Department of Justice, DOJ, Voting Rights Act         | Comments Off 

 “Professor’s          Name a Laughing Matter” 

        Posted on June 18, 2011        by Rick Hasen 

In this case, it’s because it’s no            longer “Hasen.”

  Posted            in Uncategorized         | Comments Off 

 NAMUDNO Case          Makes Cameo Appearance in Latest Controversy Over Justice          Thomas Ethics Disclosures 

        Posted on June 18, 2011        by Rick Hasen 

New              York Times:

Mr. Crow has not personally been a party to Supreme Court            litigation, but his companies have been involved in federal            court cases, including four that went to the appellate            level. And he has served on the boards of two conservative            organizations involved in filing supporting briefs in cases            before the Supreme Court. One of them, the American            Enterprise Institute, with Mr. Crow as a trustee, gave            Justice Thomas a bust of Lincoln valued at $15,000 and            praised his jurisprudence at an awards gala in 2001.

The institute’s Project on Fair Representation later filed            briefs in several cases, and in 2006 the project brought a            lawsuit challenging federal voting rights laws, a case in            which Justice Thomas filed a lone dissent, embracing the            project’s arguments. The project director, an institute            fellow named Edward Blum, said the institute supported his            research but did not finance the brief filings or the Texas            suit, which was litigated pro bono by a former clerk of            Justice Thomas’s.

“When it came time to file a lawsuit,” he said, “A.E.I. had            no role in doing that.”

  Posted            in conflict of interest laws, Voting Rights Act         | Comments Off 

 Tom          Goldstein Predicts a Reversal in McComish, with Chief Justice          Roberts as Opinion Author 

        Posted on June 18, 2011        by Rick Hasen 

I think he’s right.  I also expect this to be 5-4 (or 6-3 if          Justice Kagan is more            skeptical of regulation than some expect).

  Posted            in campaign            finance  |        Comments Off 

 “Super PAC Registrations Accelerate, Favor          Conservatives” 

        Posted on June 18, 2011        by Rick Hasen 

This            item appears at the Open Secrets Blog.

  Posted            in campaign            finance  |        Comments Off 

 Read Port Chester’s Response to          the Motion to Dismiss in Second Circuit 

        Posted on June 18, 2011        by Rick Hasen 

Here.

  Posted            in Voting            Rights Act  |        Comments Off 

-- 
      Rick Hasen
      Visiting Professor
      UC Irvine School of Law
      401 E. Peltason Dr., Suite 1000
      Irvine, CA 92697-8000
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      rhasen at law.uci.edu
      http://law.uci.edu/faculty/page1_r_hasen.html

      William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law
      Loyola Law School
      http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html
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