“How Does the Supreme Court Feel About Feelings? The travel ban and a Mississippi gay-rights case show how the law is divided over religious rights.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“U.S. asks Supreme Court to take up Microsoft fight over email privacy”: Jackie Wattles and Jose Pagliery of CNNMoney.com have this report.

“Kennedy stays quiet on whether he’ll retire at end of Supreme Court term”: Eliana Johnson of Politico.com has this report.

And at “Above the Law,” David Lat has a post titled “No, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Is Not Retiring Tomorrow; Based on this weekend’s reunion of his law clerks, reports of AMK’s retirement are greatly exaggerated.”

Seventh Circuit reverses entry of summary judgment against federal pretrial detainee dismissing his claim based on res ipsa loquitur against the federal government for for injuries he sustained when he fell off a stool at a federal courthouse: You can access Friday’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: Things are Heating Up.”
Aaron Nielson has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

“Justice Gorsuch: What We Know and What We Should Expect.” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Anthony Kennedy retirement watch at a fever pitch”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this report.

Greetings from San Francisco: Where this afternoon, I will be making my first visit to AT&T Park, to watch the San Francisco Giants host the New York Mets.

And where tomorrow at 9:15 a.m. pacific time, I will be taking a guided tour of the historic James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse — headquarters of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

As always while I am on the road, additional appellate related retweets are likely to appear on this blog’s Twitter feed.