“The Supremes take up abortion rights, again; Supreme Court must not validate sham law designed to deprive women of safe, legal abortion”: Nancy Northup has this op-ed online at USA Today.

Does it really require a “How Appealing” post to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to implement a page title for its home page? Some time ago, the U.S. Supreme Court redesigned its web site. Since then, however, the Court’s home page has lacked a page title (the text that appears in your web browser tab at the very top of the page).

Instead, at present, the Court’s home page title simply reiterates the web site’s online address, beginning with the beloved “http” text (at least when using Firefox; other browsers may replicate the address differently in the page title, but none reveals an actual page title for the Court’s home page). Other pages within the Court’s web site, such as the current Term’s orders page, do contain page titles (in this instance, “2015 Term Court Orders”).

Because courts have generally exhibited amazing responsiveness in correcting flaws in their online information in response to “How Appealing” posts noting such flaws, I have decided to start the clock on this one at 10:45 p.m. eastern time on Thanksgiving night. Perhaps the Court’s home page will sport a title as early as tomorrow, perhaps one won’t appear until next week, or perhaps the Court has decided to keep its home page title-less into the foreseeable future.

Update: For what it’s worth, the home pages of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom both have page titles (the former is bilingual, of course).

“The Struggle for Justice on Tribal Lands”: In yesterday’s edition of The New York Times, Ned Blackhawk had this op-ed discussing the pending U.S. Supreme Court case captioned Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

“In Supreme Court case, university defends race-based policy giving middle-class minorities an edge”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“Sex After 50 at the Supreme Court”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online today at The New York Times.