“Livonia native new Harvard Law School student president”: The Detroit Free Press has this report.

“Two indicted in Markel slaying”: Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has an article that begins, “Leon County grand jurors Friday indicted two men in the murder-for-hire plot of Dan Markel.”

“Obama’s Supreme Court Lawyer ‘Can’t Imagine’ The Justices Would Back A Muslim Ban”: Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has this report.

“The Legal Residue of American Empire: Imperialism has left tricky sovereignty questions with which the U.S. Supreme Court is only now reckoning.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“U.S. transgender woman’s journey turns into constitutional fight”: Daniel Trotta of Reuters has this report.

“Top Obama Lawyer: Obamacare Fight Over, Muslim Ban Unlikely.” Ari Melber of NBC News has this interview with U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.

“The Hatch Valley may be to chiles what the Napa Valley is to grapes.” So begins an interesting opinion that Circuit Judge Neil M. Gorsuch issued today on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

The opinion’s first paragraph makes me look forward even more to my visit this September to Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos, New Mexico. And because Judge Gorsuch wrote the opinion, you can be sure it’s an entertaining read.

In fact, news of the ruling reached me via email from a reader who sent me the opinion’s opening paragraphs together with a link to the decision at the Tenth Circuit’s web site. The clear and captivating style of writing found in the opinion’s opening paragraphs made me quite confident that Judge Gorsuch would turn out to be the opinion’s author, as in fact he did..