“Posner vs. the Plaintiffs Bar: The Seventh Circuit nixes an egregious kind of strike suit.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Appeals Court Upholds U.S. Government’s Seizure of Megaupload’s Mega-Millions; The 4th Circuit rejects the contention that a federal statute disentitling fugitives from defending property claims against government forfeiture actions is a violation of due process rights”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Fourth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“Appeal sought for family of man killed after Denver dispatcher sent him into harm’s way; Reat, 25, was driving to Wheat Ridge with two brothers when they were threatened by a group of men”: In June 2016, Kirk Mitchell of The Denver Post had an article that begins, “Attorneys for Jimma Pal Reat’s estate are seeking a review by the full 10th Circuit Court of Appeals after a panel of three appeals judges dismissed his wrongful death lawsuit against a Denver dispatcher who told him and his companions to return to the scene of a violent crime.”

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued an order denying rehearing en banc over the dissenting votes of four judges. Also yesterday, the original three-judge panel issued an amended opinion.

The three-judge panel issued its original opinion in the case on May 31, 2016, which Kirk Mitchell of The Denver Post covered in an article headlined “Case dismissed in which Denver dispatcher put man in harm’s way; Sudanese immigrant Jimma Pal Reat was shot to death in 2012.”

“Why Garland Makes Sense for Clinton and Obama”: Adam Feldman has this post today at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Does size matter? Not always, as this case illustrates.” So begins an opinion that Chief Judge Diane P. Wood issued yesterday on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

“UAF expects large crowd for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor”: Matt Buxton has this front page article in today’s edition of The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

And yesterday, the University of Colorado Boulder issued a news release titled “US Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to speak at CU Boulder on Sept. 2.”

“Voters Say Economy, Supreme Court, Are Top Campaign Issues”: Ariel Edwards-Levy of The Huffington Post has this report.

“Once Skeptical of Executive Power, Obama Has Come to Embrace It; Mr. Obama will leave the White House as one of the most prolific authors of major regulations in presidential history”: Binyamin Appelbaum and Michael D. Shear will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

Also in tomorrow’s newspaper, Shear will have a related item headlined “Reshaping Lives, Without Congress.”