“There is no principled reason to vote against Gorsuch”: Attorney David C. Frederick has this essay online at The Washington Post.

Fortune cookies as appellate authority: Today, Circuit Judge John B. Owens issued an opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit containing this sentence, which includes a quote (a Bill Paxton tribute, no less) from the movie Aliens: “Indeed, defendants — each having filed its own set of briefs — cannot cite a single court, a treatise, or even a fortune cookie message that supports the ‘Game Over, Man!’ reading of Rule 25 that they urge us to adopt.”

“DOJ sends 144,000 pages of Gorsuch documents to Senate”: Seung Min Kim of Politico.com has this report.

“Idaho Clerk Elizabeth A. ‘Libby’ Smith Named Ninth Circuit’s New Executive”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today.

“A Robbery Based on a Movie? Yes, the Jury Can See Clips.” Benjamin Weiser has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

And at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter, Eriq Gardner has a post titled “Appeals Court: Ben Affleck’s ‘The Town’ Didn’t Prejudice Bank Robbery Trial.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

“Pension funds to SCOTUS: Save our class action opt-out rights.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Mitch McConnell Is Glad He Played Politics With The Supreme Court; ‘As you know, I played arguably the single biggest role in having the vacancy there,’ McConnell said, adding that having an open Supreme Court spot helped Republicans win the White House”: Emma Loop of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“DOJ turns over documents pertaining to Gorsuch’s Bush tenure”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this report.