“Asylum seekers in limbo as Nauru scraps appeals to High Court of Australia”: Michaela Whitbourn of The Sydney Morning Herald has this report.

And Melissa Clarke of Sydney, Australia’s ABC News reports that “Former chief justice slams Australian Government as Nauru abolishes highest legal appeal process.”

“Rebecca Dallet beats Michael Screnock in race for Wisconsin Supreme Court”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

Molly Beck of The Wisconsin State Journal reports that “Rebecca Dallet wins 10-year term on Wisconsin Supreme Court.”

And Scott Bauer of The Associated Press reports that “Liberal Dallet easily takes Wisconsin Supreme Court race.”

“Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Vanderbilt talk touched on Clarence Thomas, Bob Dylan”: Adam Tamburin of The Tennessee has this report.

And although the video of that visit does not yet appear to be available online, you can view on YouTube the video of Justice Sotomayor’s February visit to the Emory School of Law.

“Annual Survey of American Law honors Chief Judge Robert Katzmann”: NYU School of Law has posted this video on YouTube.

“April 3, 2018 Wisconsin Election Results”: Via WisconsinVote.org, at this link.

“Bikini baristas hit with court brief demanding they cover up”: Lucia Suarez Sang of Fox News has this report.

And at Reason’s “Hit & Run” blog, Scott Shackford has a post titled “Can You Guess How Much Butt This Town Will Let You Show? Everett, Washington, continues to wage war against scantily clad ‘bikini baristas.’”

Yesterday evening, I had this post about Brief for Appellant filed last Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

“Appeals court: Inmate shortchanged at lunch can sue for retaliation.” Paul Egan of The Detroit Free Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today.

As a reader of this blog noted by email, a noteworthy aspect of the decision’s “analysis appears on pages 8 to 9, where the Court recognized a 4-2 circuit split and agreed with the majority in rejecting the so-called ‘checkmate doctrine,’ which holds that a prisoner’s First Amendment retaliation claim is categorically foreclosed whenever the prison finds the prisoner guilty of misconduct at an in-house prison hearing. Before this case, the Sixth Circuit had embraced the checkmate doctrine in more than a dozen unpublished opinions. It has now rejected the doctrine in a published opinion.”

“Lawyers for Eves, LePage make their cases in federal court; Both sides present oral arguments to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals about the governor’s right to withhold funding to a charter school because of a hiring dispute involving Eves”: Edward D. Murphy of The Portland (Me.) Press Herald has this report.

And Alanna Durkin Richer of The Associated Press reports that “Lawyers spar over case accusing Maine governor of blackmail.”

You can access via this link the audio of today’s en banc oral argument of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

“PACER Fees Shouldn’t Fund Most Court Tech, Judge Rules”: Britain Eakin of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Richard Hasen’s Jumble of Confusions — Part 3”: Ed Whelan has this post at National Review’s “Bench Memos” blog.

“U.S. Supreme Court Says Tribune Creditor Suit May Be Revived”: Greg Stohr and Dawn McCarty of Bloomberg News have this report.

And Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court suggests lower courts reconsider Tribune Co dispute.”

You can access at this link today’s statement of Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas respecting the petition for certiorari.

“Microsoft calls for dismissal of U.S. Supreme Court privacy fight”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Duty and Tradition: The US Solicitor General and His Principal Deputy are Law School Alumni — and They Represent the History and Shared Values Between the Two Institutions.” Becky Beaupre Gillespie of the University of Chicago Law School has this report, along with an article headlined “Law School Alumni Experience the SG’s Office as Bristow Fellows.”

“Stephen Reinhardt, Liberal Lion of Federal Court, Dies at 87”: This obituary, written by Sam Roberts, appears in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“‘A friendly vote on the court’: How Greg Abbott’s former employees could help Texas from the federal bench; As a longtime aide to Greg Abbott, Andrew Oldham has helped Texas fight the federal government; If he’s confirmed to the federal bench, he could rule on the same type of cases”: Emma Platoff of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“Why the Supreme Court Reviews So Many Qualified Immunity Cases; Here’s a theory, at least”: Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“The Supreme Court may hand an enduring advantage to the Republican Party this term”: Harold Meyerson has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“The ‘Guarantee’ Clause”: Law professor Ryan C. Williams has posted this article on SSRN.

“Scalia the Justice: A Career of Contradictions (A Book Review).” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Richard Hasen’s Jumble of Confusions — Part 2”: Ed Whelan has this post at National Review’s “Bench Memos” blog.

“An Opinion is Worth at Least 1,000 Words”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Justice Race Receives National Attention”: Shawn Johnson had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”