“The Supreme Court Is Bored Out of Its Mind: The eight justices are getting surly and listless while they wait for a ninth member.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online today at Slate.

“Supreme Court ruling offers clues on fate of Obama rule”: Tiffany Stecker of Greenwire has an article that begins, “Enforcement of the Clean Water Act could undergo a wave of changes in the wake of yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on a key wetlands case, legal scholars say.”

“‘Star Wars’ Is Really About Feminism. And Jefferson. And Jesus.” Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

And today at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Sunstein has a related blog post titled “Why is success so hard to predict?”

“Pittsburgh abortion clinic buffer zone challenge is revived”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today.

“Boyce Martin Jr., giant of bench, has died”: Andrew Wolfson of The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky has an article that begins, “Boyce F. Martin Jr., an unapologetic liberal judge who in 34 years on the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals wrote more than 1,500 opinions, including one permitting affirmative action as well as the nation’s first appellate decision affirming what is known as Obamacare, died early Wednesday, according to an email distributed by one of his former law clerks. He was 80 and had been in failing health.”

“Supreme Court Eliminates Automatic Depublication”: California Courts Newsroom issued this news release today.

“Democracy and the Death Penalty”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“Kansas Parents Worry Schools Are Slipping Amid Budget Battles”: Julie Bosman has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

As the article explains, “[t]he struggle over school funding in Kansas reached a new crisis point when the State Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Republican-dominated Legislature had not abided by its constitutional mandate to finance public schools equitably, especially poorer districts with less property wealth.”

My earlier coverage of Friday’s Kansas Supreme Court ruling can be accessed here.

“Avalanche is an inherent risk of skiing, Colorado Supreme Court rules; Judges say Colorado Ski Safety Act’s description of changing snow, weather conditions protects resorts from liability”: Jason Blevins has this front page article in today’s edition of The Denver Post.

And The Associated Press has an article headlined “Colorado court: Ski resorts not liable for avalanches.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Colorado at this link.

“Castor shifts on Porngate report, says it will be released when ready”: Craig R. McCoy has this article in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“Ballot question on retiring judges revised to mislead voters”: Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an editorial that begins, “More than two million Pennsylvania voters responded to a clear question put to them on April 26 — whether the state’s mandatory retirement age for judges should be raised from 70 to 75 — with a clear answer: No.”

“Federal judge urges prompt appeal to Court on transgender rights”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Kenneth Starr stepping down as Baylor chancellor”: ESPN.com has a report that begins, “Kenneth Starr is resigning as chancellor at Baylor in the wake of a huge shakeup at the university, but he will continue to teach in the law school, the former school president told ESPN’s Joe Schad on Wednesday.”

Ninth Circuit reconsiders Model Mayhem appeal, and model suing that web site wins again: Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this ruling on panel rehearing.

Courthouse News Service reports on yesterday’s ruling in an article headlined “Raped Model’s Suit Against Website Revived.”

My earlier coverage of the panel’s original ruling in this appeal, from September of 2014, can be accessed here and here.

“U.S. appeals court rejects Lynn Tilton challenge to SEC case”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

What about D.C. Circuit cases in which Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland‘s vote would have made a difference? An opinion that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued yesterday demonstrates how such cases are being handled by that court. As you may have suspected, it means more work for someone else.

“The number of formal rules [executive] agencies have issued thanks to their delegated legislative authority has grown so exuberantly it’s hard to keep up.” So writes Circuit Judge Neil M. Gorsuch in an opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued yesterday. Judge Gorsuch proceeds to observe that “[t]he Code of Federal Regulations now clocks in at over 175,000 pages.”