“Why Petersen may not be the last judicial nominee with no trial experience: The embarrassing washout of a Trump nominee to the D.C. bench highlights the fact that fewer and fewer cases go to trial, meaning fewer and fewer lawyers with trial experience.” Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.

“California Supreme Court rules against drug company in warning-label case”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that begins, “Consumer advocates scored a major victory over drug companies Thursday when the California Supreme Court said pharmaceutical manufacturers are responsible for harm caused by defective warnings in labels on generic versions of their products.”

Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “California court says Novartis can be sued over generic drug injuries.”

And at the “At the Lectern” blog of Horvitz & Levy, David Ettinger has a post titled “4-3 drug liability opinion might be a rehearing candidate because randomly selected pro tem justice is in the majority.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of California at this link.

“People Magazine Investigates S02E07 Marked for Murder”: The episode of “People Magazine Investigates” focusing on the murder of law professor Dan Markel can be freely accessed on YouTube at this link.

“Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Are Reports Of Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Greatly Exaggerated? Wow! Justice Kennedy has hired a full complement of four law clerks for the next Supreme Court Term.” David Lat has this post at “Above the Law.”

“Reimagining Prison with Frank Gehry”: Bill Keller has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Help a Justice Out”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Trump announces ninth wave of judicial nominees”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

And Ariane de Vogue and David Shortell of CNN.com report that “Trump announces new judicial picks despite past vetting concerns.”

“GOP Kennedy made life tough for a Trump judicial nominee”: Kevin Freking of The Associated Press has this report.

And online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a jurisprudence essay titled “Too Bad for the Bench: Finally, the Senate is shooting down Trump’s lousy judicial picks; Is this the end of the administration’s crusade to stack the bench?”

“Why Judges Matter”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Pitch perfect: Supreme Court justices may give away their votes with their voices; Political scientists hit upon a surprisingly reliable signal of how the high court will rule.” Steven Mazie has this post at the “Democracy in America” blog of The Economist.

The current draft of a paper titled “Emotional Arousal Predicts Voting on the U.S. Supreme Court” by Bryce J. Dietrich, Ryan D. Enos, and Maya Sen can be accessed here.

“Is the ABA any good at evaluating judicial nominees?” Derek T. Muller recently had this post at his blog, “Excess of Democracy.”