“Appeals court backs wildlife activist in free speech case”: Matthew Brown of The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“The case against four person majorities on the Supreme Court”: Law professor Jonathan R. Nash has this essay online at The Hill.

“Five 99Rise protesters get jail time for disrupting Supreme Court”: Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has this report.

And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “Five Protesters Who Disrupted The Supreme Court Will Spend A Few Days In Jail.”

“Even head judge of Georgia’s highest court gets called for jury duty”: Ben Brasch of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

“Anchorage teen speaks her mind to Supreme Court justice about immigration, civil rights”: Columnist Charles Wohlforth of Alaska Dispatch News has an essay that begins, “No one who knew her would be surprised that at 15 years of age Olivia Tafs found herself on a dais with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, instructing him on the relevance of the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to President Donald Trump’s travel ban.”

In the August 2017 issue of ABA Journal magazine: Mark Walsh has an article headlined “Court limits where plaintiffs can bring claims in three rulings.”

“SCOTUS petition claims Justice memo is smoking gun on SEC ALJs”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Trump asks appeals court to shut down protesters’ suit”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.

“New state Supreme Court justice, Christopher Goff, shares humble roots that spurred his surprising legal journey”: Dan Carden of The Times of Munster, Indiana has this report.

“Five sentenced to days in jail for Supreme Court disruption over campaign finance”: Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post has this report.

“Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail: Prosecution of white-collar crime is at a twenty-year low.” Patrick Radden Keefe will have this Annals of Justice article in the July 31, 2017 issue of The New Yorker.