“Fired war court overseer says he was exploring plea deals in 9/11, USS Cole cases”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report.

And Josh Gerstein of Politico has a blog post titled “Mattis: Aerial photo request triggered firing of Gitmo tribunal overseer.”

“GOP chief justice slams Republican judicial impeachment move”: Liz Navratil of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has this report.

Jan Murphy of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has articles headlined “Pa. Supreme Court chief justice sees impeachment resolutions as ‘attack upon an independent judiciary’” and “Pa. attorney general calls on House to reject judicial impeachment resolutions.”

Debra Erdley of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that “Chief Justice condemns impeachment resolutions.”

And Sam Levine of HuffPost reports that “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Scolds His Own Party For Trying To Impeach Justices.”

The official website of the Pennsylvania Courts today posted online a news release titled “PA Supreme Court Chief Justice Reacts to Threats of Impeachment.”

“Why Republicans Are Right To Impeach Pennsylvania’s Rogue Supreme Court Justices Over Gerrymandering; What is more in accord with the rule of law: four justices usurping the power of a co-equal branch of government, or a legislature doing exactly what the state constitution allows?” Kyle Sammin has this post at The Federalist.

“Jeff Colyer files petition requesting U.S. Supreme Court take up Planned Parenthood ruling”: Katie Moore of The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report.

And Bryan Lowry of The Kansas City Star reports that “Colyer wants to take Kansas’ fight with Planned Parenthood to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

“In ruling for victim in UCLA attack, California Supreme Court says universities should protect students”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Court puts onus on California colleges to protect students from ‘foreseeable violence.’”

Douglas Belkin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Schools Have a Duty to Protect Students From Attacks, Rules California High Court; Decision comes as violence has become a more regular occurrence on campuses.”

Sudhin Thanawala of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: California colleges have duty to protect students.”

Maria Dinzeo of Courthouse News Service reports that “California High Court Rules Colleges Must Protect Students.”

And at the “At the Lectern” blog, David Ettinger has a post titled “Colleges and universities have a duty to protect their students from certain violence.”

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

“At the Supreme Court, No Consensus on the Death Penalty; Justices alternately upheld, halted and questioned executions on an array of grounds this week”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Supreme Court Avoids Bush v. Gore II in Ducking Pennsylvania Redistricting Controversy”: Richard L. Hasen — author of the “Election Law Blog” — has this post at the Harvard Law Review Blog.

“Budget bill likely would end Supreme Court email search case”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“A school cook’s forgotten civil rights stand”: Jim McElhatton has this article online at The Alexandria (Va.) Times.

“Chief Justice Burger and the Bench: How Physically Changing the Shape of the Court’s Bench Reduced Interruptions during Oral Argument.” Ryan C. Black, Timothy R. Johnson, and Ryan J. Owens have this very interesting article (subscription required for full access) in the March 2018 issue of the Journal of Supreme Court History, which arrived in my office mail today.

I have initiated contact with the article’s authors to see if perhaps free online access to this article can be provided for those one or two “How Appealing” readers who aren’t members of the Supreme Court Historical Society and thus don’t have a subscription to the Journal of Supreme Court History.

Update: With thanks to article co-author Tim Johnson, you can access the full text of the article online at this link.

“The Long March of the Corporate Rights Movement”: At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ryan Azad has this review of law professor Adam Winkler‘s new book, “We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights.”

“U.S. spending bill includes bid to solve international email privacy impasse”: Dustin Volz of Reuters has this report. According to the article, “If adopted, the measure could make a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last month moot that arose after Microsoft balked at handing over a criminal suspect’s emails stored in company servers in Ireland.”

“Lino Graglia: The Happy Warrior Soldiers On.” Mark Pulliam has this post at his blog, “Misrule of Law.”

“Supreme Court Notebook: Sotomayor rapped for surfing the web.” Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press have this report.