“Kansas school funding unconstitutional, Kansas Supreme Court rules; Justices retain June 30 deadline for creating fairer finance system for poorer schools”: Celia Llopis-Jepsen of The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report. And Jonathan Shorman of The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that “GOP furious with school finance court ruling; legislative action unlikely next week; House speaker and Senate president’s offices indicate action on sine die not likely.”
Dion Lefler, Suzanne Perez Tobias, and Daniel Salazar of The Wichita Eagle report that “Supreme Court says Kansas school funding still unconstitutionally inequitable; school closure still looms.”
Peter Hancock of The Lawrence Journal-World reports that “Kansas Supreme Court rejects lawmakers’ school finance changes, threatens in new ruling to close schools.”
And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Top Kansas court: State not properly funding poor schools.”
You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Kansas at this link.
“Roy Moore: Liberty Counsel files lawsuit over Alabama chief justice suspension.” Erin Edgemon of AL.com has this report.
And The Associated Press reports that “Suspended Alabama chief justice sues state judicial panel.”
“The rise and (apparent) decline of sealed petitions at the Supreme Court”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight today has a post that begins, “An item at Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog caught my eye Thursday.”
“Appeals court halts U.S. judge’s order banning aspect of D.C. gun enforcement”: Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post has this report.
I have posted at this link today’s per curiam order of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granting a temporary administrative stay pending further order of that court.
“Bathroom lawsuit could send transgender rights to U.S. Supreme Court”: Daniel Wiessner and Daniel Trotta of Reuters have this report.
“Chief Judge 2016 State of the Circuit Report”: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has posted this report online.
“Search of old computer files allowed by U.S. appeals court”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.
Courthouse News Service reports that “En Banc Second Circuit Endorses Long-Term Data Retention by Feds.”
And at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog,” Joe Palazzolo has a post titled “Hard Drives Seized Years Ago Can Be Searched, Court Says.”
You can access today’s en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.
“The Obama Administration Is Using Racist Court Rulings to Deny Citizenship to 55,000 People; Five American Samoans want the Supreme Court to grant them birthright citizenship”: Pema Levy has this article online today at Mother Jones.
“Trump is a pragmatist, too. That’s the problem.” Christopher J. Scalia has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“State Supreme Court Upholds Abolishment Of Death Penalty, Including For Death-Row Inmates”: Alaine Griffin and Matthew Kauffman have this front page article in today’s edition of The Hartford Courant.
And The Associated Press reports that “Connecticut Supreme Court upholds death penalty abolishment.”
Yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Connecticut consists of a per curiam opinion of the court, three concurring opinions (here, here, and here) and two dissenting opinions (here and here).
“Baylor Demotes President Kenneth Starr Over Handling of Sex Assault Cases”: Marc Tracy has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
And in today’s edition of The Waco (Tex.) Tribune-Herald, Phillip Ericksen has a front page article headlined “Baylor looks to move beyond ‘fundamental failure,’ removes president and coach amid controversy.”
“Former SPLC director picked for Roy Moore prosecution; Attorney General’s Office ‘not involved in the case'”: Andrew J. Yawn has this front page article in today’s edition of The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.
Kent Faulk of The Birmingham News reports that “Former SPLC legal director hired to prosecute Roy Moore.”
And The Associated Press reports that “Ex-US magistrate hired to prosecute Alabama chief justice.”
“Alabama Supreme Court now recognizes lesbian adoption after SCOTUS opinion”: Kent Faulk of The Birmingham News has this report.
“Eight ‘is not a good number’ for the Supreme Court, Ginsburg says”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.
And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Ginsburg: Having only 8 justices hamstrings Supreme Court.”
You can access at this link the prepared text of the remarks that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered yesterday at the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
“Friends, colleagues find hope in arrest, eager for details”: Sean Rossman has this front page article in today’s edition of The Tallahassee Democrat.
And The Associated Press reports that “Family members ‘grateful’ for arrest in killing.”
