“How Roy Moore Won Alabama”: Quin Hillyer has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Can Lower Courts Identify Scrivener’s Errors on Remand in Higher Courts’ Opinions? A Thought on Judge Posner in Sears.” Asher Steinberg has this post at his blog, “The Narrowest Grounds.”

“3rd Circuit backtracks (a teeny bit) on ascertainability, adding to SCOTUS drama”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“U.S. court rules Arkansas can block Planned Parenthood funding”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Federal court: Arkansas can block Planned Parenthood money.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit — in which all three judges on the panel wrote separately — at this link.

Access Judge Thapar’s first published Sixth Circuit opinion since he joined that court: Today, Circuit Judge Amul R. Thapar issued this published opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in a case captioned Gerboc v. ContextLogic, Inc.

As some readers will know, Judge Thapar had previously been the author of published Sixth Circuit opinions, but those issued while he was sitting by designation in his former capacity as a federal district judge.

“We should join the Second, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits in rejecting our added ascertainability requirement.” So writes Senior Circuit Judge Julio M. Fuentes in an opinion concurring in the decision that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today in City Select Auto Sales Inc. v. BMW Bank of North America Inc.

“Swing time: Justice Kennedy will take centre stage during the Supreme Court’s upcoming term; Disputes over gerrymandering, gay rights and Donald Trump’s travel ban may hinge on his vote.” Steven Mazie has this post at the “Democracy in America” blog of The Economist.

“NY Times must face defamation lawsuit over professor’s slavery comments”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a unanimous per curiam decision that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.