“Federal Antidrug Law Goes Up in Smoke: Irate about harmful spillover from Colorado’s marijuana legalization, two neighboring states sue to overturn it.” David B. Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth Price Foley will have this op-ed in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

You can freely access the full text of the op-ed via Google.

“Ex-trooper’s case could come back to Amarillo”: The Amarillo Globe-News has this report on a revised ruling that a two-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued earlier this month.

The third judge who was originally a part of the three-judge panel in this case — Senior Circuit Judge Carolyn Dineen King — appears either to have been dismissed from the panel by the other two judges or to have quit the panel in protest. When the panel issued its original decision in the case back on August 28, 2013, Judge King issued a dissent. When the panel issued a revised opinion earlier this month, a footnote to the decision stated that the opinion was being issued by a two-judge quorum.

Lest anyone fear that Judge King became ill, unavailable, or otherwise indisposed, on the same day that the panel issued its revised decision, the Fifth Circuit issued an unpublished order denying rehearing en banc. Although Judge King, as a senior circuit judge, does not get to vote for rehearing en banc, Judge King is noted as joining the dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc, and she also issued her own separate opinion joining that dissent.

If any of this blog’s readers have seen anything similar to this happen before on a federal appellate court — where a judge who disagrees with the outcome of a case is either dismissed from a three-judge panel or quits the panel in protest — I would be interested in hearing the details via email.

“ACA faces key court test over its future”: Holly Fletcher will have this article in Monday’s edition of The Tennessean.

“Plea Bargaining and the Innocent — A response to Judge Kane and Judge Rakoff”: Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf has this post today at his “Hercules and the Umpire” blog.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 2014 Was Better Than Your 2014”: Abby Johnston has this post online at Bustle.

“Age restriction forces Justice Cavanagh’s retirement”: Paul Egan has this article in today’s edition of The Detroit Free Press.

And The Lansing State Journal recently reported that “Retiring Supreme Court justice began career in Lansing.”

“Poll: Omaha bucks state’s prevailing sentiment on same-sex marriage.” This front page article appears in today’s edition of The Omaha Sunday World-Herald.

“Gay marriage dynamic in U.S. shifted dramatically in 2014”: The Los Angeles Times has an article that begins, “For the first time, a majority of Americans are living in a state that allows gay marriage. After a year of cascading court opinions tossing out many remaining restrictions, the dynamic in 2014 changed from how many states allow same-sex marriage to how many states don’t.”

Another Justice is blind: The Associated Press reports that “Blind judge making history on Michigan’s top court.”