“Judicial Conflicts and Voting Agreement: Evidence from Interruptions at Oral Argument.” Law professor Tonja Jacobi and Kyle Rozema have posted this paper at SSRN.

“The Supreme Court Didn’t See E-Commerce Coming: But it now has a chance to fix a mistake that costs states billions in sales taxes.” Law professor Daniel Hemel has this essay online at Slate.

“Wedding Cakes, Urinals, and Other Art”: Michael Dorf has this post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Houston looks to Supreme Court to resolve same-sex marriage benefits fight; The city of Houston is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision by the Texas Supreme Court in which the court suggested a landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage does not fully address the right to marriage benefits”: Alexa Ura of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“How America’s judges became feudal lords”: Edward Morrissey has this essay online at The Week.

“Briarcliff schools, U.S. Supreme Court have rare bond”: The Journal News of White Plains, New York has this report.

“Should a Judge Rely on the Law or His Own Common Sense? A dialogue on legal pragmatism and finding the ‘sensible’ decision.” Slate has posted online this jurisprudence essay, consisting of a conversation between former Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner and Senior U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.), moderated by Joel Cohen.

“Posner’s new book is bananas, but you might want it anyway”: Matthew Stiegler has this post at his “CA3blog.”

“AG Schimel Announces Addition of Sopen Shah to Office of Solicitor General”: The Wisconsin Department of Justice issued this news release today.

“A Primer on The Government’s Participation Before the Supreme Court at the Start of the 2017 Term”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“When Beliefs and Identities Clash in Court: The Supreme Court may not be the right place to settle the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, which pits marriage equality against religious freedom.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Fight over electoral district boundaries heads to Supreme Court”: Andrew Chung of Reuters has this report.