“Lawmakers showing contempt for courts”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wichita Eagle.

“Lens on Stays Pending Appeal”: At the “Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog,” Adam Steinman has this post discussing an article that law professor Jill Wieber Lens has posted online at SSRN titled “Stays Pending Appeal: Why the Merits Should Not Matter.”

“Michelle Obama, Race and the Ivy League: The education of a future First Lady.” Peter Slevin of Politico Magazine has an article that begins, “In 1988, a group of black students at Harvard Law School compiled a report designed to recognize the growing achievements of black students on campus and share their wisdom with newcomers.”

“U.S. Barred From Enforcing Same-Sex Family Leave Benefit”: Margaret Cronin Fisk and Tom Korosec of Bloomberg News have a report that begins, “The U.S. was barred by a federal judge from immediately enforcing a new rule that would grant Family and Medical Leave Act benefits to same-sex couples.”

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