“How Did I Get an Abortion in Texas? I Didn’t.” Valerie Peterson has this op-ed in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Porn, Copyright Law and a Raised Judicial Eyebrow”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker files lawsuit to block potential suspension”: Kent Faulk of The Birmingham News has this report.

And Brian Lyman of The Montgomery Advertiser reports that “Justice Tom Parker brings federal lawsuit against JIC.”

“Net Neutrality Upheld as the Law of the Web”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“Can Gun Control Still Pass Muster in the Supreme Court?” The New York Times has posted online today this “Room for Debate” discussion.

“Third Circuit recusal procedure, the basics and beyond”: Matthew Stiegler has this post today at his “CA3blog.”

“The Problem With Congress Might Not Be Fixable”: Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“Tiny lakefront lot sparks Supreme Court showdown”: Robin Bravender of Greenwire has this report.

“A dysfunctional Supreme Court: Get used to it.” Law professor Herman Schwartz and William Yeomans have this essay online today at Reuters.

“9th Circuit Upholds Ministers’ Pot Convictions”: Courthouse News Service has a report that begins, “Federal law does not protect the right of two ministers of the Hawaii Cannabis Ministry to distribute large amounts of marijuana for their religious practices, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Merrick Garland tells 5th-grade graduates to work hard: ‘Dreams don’t come true by magic.'” Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Garland speaks at school where he tutors kids.”

The most delicious pork chop is apparently no guarantee of a lawful waitperson tip distribution policy: Yesterday, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued this decision.

“Appeals Court Saves SEC’s Rule Changes Boosting Crowdfunded Movies; A ruling means investments won’t be restricted to those with enough financial wealth or sophistication to put up money”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued yesterday.

“Supreme Court Makes Hash of U.S. Tribal Law”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“The 2016 election’s effect on the Supreme Court”: Law professor Laura E. Little has this essay online today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Cass Sunstein: The World According to Star Wars.” The National Constitution Center has posted this video online at YouTube.

“Trump Says Federalist Society Will Pick His Judges For Him”: Melissa Maleske of Law360.com has this report (subscription required for full access).

Reconstituted Supreme Court of Pennsylvania rejects challenge to its own reconstitution: In April 2013, Daniel Denvir reported in Philadelphia City Paper that “Philly’s Power Players Bombard City Newspapers With Libel Suits.”

A discovery-related issue arising in one of the lawsuits discussed in that article eventually reached the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. However, for various reasons (some of which this blog has already exhaustively covered), at one point Pennsylvania’s highest court consisted of only two Justices who were not recused from the case. Perceiving the lack of a quorum, those two Justices issued an order dismissing the case. Soon thereafter, however, the same two Justices reversed course and reinstated the case.

And that’s where things get more interesting. Apparently for the first time in the long history of the Pa. Supreme Court — a judicial institution that dates back to 1722 — the court initiated a procedure that resulted in the call-up of five judges serving on Pennsylvania’s two intermediate appellate court to constitute a full, seven-member Pa. Supreme Court to decide this case and this case only.

Yesterday, by a vote of 4-to-3, the specially constituted Pa. Supreme Court ruled that the discovery-related issue that was at the heart of the appeal did not qualify for immediate appellate review under Pennsylvania’s formulation of the collateral order doctrine. Before reaching that result, however, the court held by a vote of 7-to-0 that the procedures for calling up five intermediate appellate court judges to enable a decision in this appeal were lawful.

Yesterday’s ruling consists of a per curiam opinion of the court, a concurring statement, an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part on a separate procedural issue, and three opinions dissenting from the court’s conclusion that collateral order jurisdiction was lacking (here, here, and here).

The en banc ruling of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania that yesterday’s Pa. Supreme Court decision orders vacated for lack of appellate jurisdiction can be accessed here.

In the MediaLawLetter of the Media Law Resource Center, attorneys Amy B. Ginensky, Kaitlin M. Gurney, and Eli Segal — all three of whom served as counsel for defendant-appellee in the Pa. Superior Court — reported on the Pa. Superior Court’s en banc ruling in an article headlined “Camera-Shy Public-Figure Defamation Plaintiff Must Sit for His Video Deposition; No First Amendment Right to Keep Private Information Provided Through Discovery.”

“What should we think about Donald Trump’s thoughts about judges?” Judge Kevin S. Burke has this essay online today at MinnPost.

“Gay Mexican Asylum-Seeker Wins Rehearing”: Pamela A. MacLean has this post at her “Trial Insider” blog.

And Courthouse News Service reports that “HIV-Positive Immigrant Faces En Banc Hearing.”

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link. The original three-judge panel’s now vacated 2-to-1 ruling in the case from November 2015 can be accessed here.

“Journalist asks appeals court for reprieve in hacking case”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post today.