“Would Legalized Sports Betting Help States Get Out of the Hole? With Supreme Court ruling expected soon, more legislatures consider allowing wagers on sports.” Cameron McWhirter of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“How an anti-illegal immigration YouTuber turned a $280 fine into a federal criminal trial”: Victoria Kim of The Los Angeles Times has this interesting article.

“Snowbowl warns of legal havoc”: Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Sun has an article that begins, “Attorneys for Snowbowl are warning the Arizona Supreme Court that if they don’t overturn a ruling allowing the Hopi Tribe to sue over artificial snow they are opening the door to a flood of litigation.”

“Ronald Gray: Air Force lawyers file brief in Supreme Court case of former Bragg soldier.” Drew Brooks of The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer has this report.

“Students see Montana Supreme Court tackle tax breaks for religious schools”: Rob Chaney has this front page article in today’s edition of The Missoulian.

“Supreme Court Mentions of Our Coblogger Will Baude, and My Colleague Richard Re: Sometimes law professors do say something the Justices find useful.” Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Supreme Court: No Lives Matter If a Cop Feels Threatened; The high court’s ruling this week basically says that if an old lady has a cane and a cop says he thought it was a gun, he can fire away.” Margaret Carlson has this essay online at the Daily Beast.

“Supreme Court justices are speaking up more because they’re not afraid to be partisan; Not long ago, it was common to hang back, in the style of Clarence Thomas”: Law professors Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag have this essay online at The Washington Post.

The authors recently posted a related article on SSRN (as noted in this earlier post).

“Trump’s originalist, Neil Gorsuch, finds his place”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“Lawyers: Prosecutors withheld evidence of teen’s innocence.” Michael Kunzelman of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A legal team has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its claim that Louisiana prosecutors withheld evidence for a murder trial that ended in a guilty verdict against an intellectually disabled teenager accused of killing a pizza deliveryman.”

“Texas Supreme Court sharply splits on same-sex harassment case”: In today’s edition of The Austin American-Statesman, Chuck Lindell has a front page article that begins, “Locked in a bitter disagreement over how to judge claims of same-sex sexual harassment, a sharply divided Texas Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by a female San Antonio middle school coach who complained that another woman created a hostile work environment.”

Paul J. Weber of The Associated Press reports that “Texas court rejects sexual harassment case involving 2 women.”

And Shannon Najmabadi of The Texas Tribune reports that “A teacher says a coworker grabbed her ‘behind.’ The Texas Supreme Court tossed her lawsuit.”

Friday’s 6-to-2 ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas consists of a majority opinion and a dissenting opinion.

“The real cost of Masterpiece: It’s personal.” Paul M. Smith has this guest post at the “Balkinization” blog.

“Judge’s Death Gives Trump a Chance to Remake a Vexing Court”: In Sunday’s edition of The New York Times, Carl Hulse will have a new installment of his “On Washington” column that begins, “In the spring of 2014, a friend tried to nudge Judge Stephen Reinhardt, then an 83-year-old liberal stalwart on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, into stepping aside from full-time duties so President Barack Obama could nominate a successor.”