“Nathan B. Coats named chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court; Coats is the 46th member of the court to be named chief justice since Colorado’s 1876 statehood”: Elizabeth Hernandez of The Denver Post has this report.

“Upset about the Supreme Court’s redistricting ruling? Use the ballot box — not impeachment.” Law professors Christian A. Johnson, Michael R. Dimino Sr., and Robert C. Power have this essay online at The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

“7th Circuit kills another big data breach class action defense”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Planet Fitness transgender locker room case revived by Michigan Supreme Court”: Cole Waterman of MLive.com has this report on an order that the Supreme Court of Michigan issued recently.

“Trump nominates Alabama solicitor general for federal judgeship”: Mike Cason of Alabama Media Group has this report.

“For One Supreme Court Justice, a Personal Connection to School Law”: Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report.

“The Dan Markel Case: The Markels Break Their Silence; If you’ve been following this case, tune in to Dateline NBC on Friday night.” David Lat has this post at “Above the Law.”

And The Tallahassee Democrat reports that “Parents of slain FSU law professor Dan Markel speaking on Dateline.”

You can view the video preview of tomorrow night’s broadcast on YouTube at this link.

“Look to Supreme Court for answers on whether Trump can fire Mueller”: Law professor Richard J. Pierce has this essay online at The Hill.

“States Shouldn’t Tax Interstate Online Sales”: Law professor Richard Epstein has this post at Ricochet.

“On the ‘Correctness’ of Brown v. Board of Education”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Trump judicial nominee refuses to say if landmark civil rights opinion was correctly decided.”

And Drew Broach of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has an article headlined “Wendy Vitter won’t say if Supreme Court was right to outlaw segregated schools.”

“South Dakota SCOTUS case could change how states tax online retailers. How’d we get here?” Dana Ferguson and Jonathan Ellis of The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, South Dakota have this report.

“Wisconsin Film Festival: ‘RBG’ shows how the Supreme Court Justice Gins-burned chauvinism.” Rob Thomas of The Cap Times of Madison, Wisconsin has this report.

“Neil Gorsuch Votes Like Scalia; He talks like Elena Kagan”: Alexander Dolšak Prakash has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Why Judges Are Above the Law: The horrifying legacy of the Supreme Court’s Stump v. Sparkman ruling.” Rob Gunther has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Jonathan Ellis L’10 joins Solicitor General’s Office, argues before Supreme Court”: Penn Law has this report.

“Justice Neil Gorsuch’s first year was exactly what conservatives hoped”: Cleta Mitchell has this essay online at The Hill.

“Dissenting Against the Supreme Court’s Rightward Shift”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Appeals Court Skeptical of Mulvaney’s Ability to Independently Lead CFPB; Interim director is ‘wearing two hats’ by also heading Office of Management and Budget, judge says”: Lalita Clozel of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Glenn Thrush and Alan Rappeport of The New York Times report that “Appeals Court Questions Dual Roles of Consumer Bureau’s Director.”

Jim Puzzanghera of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Federal judges indicate they could remove Mulvaney as acting CFPB chief.”

Sommer Brokaw of UPI reports that “Judges weigh in on leadership battle at U.S. consumer agency.”

And Lydia Wheeler of The Hill reports that “Federal appeals court weighs CFPB leadership fight.”

You can access via this link the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Back home after a most enjoyable visit to Washington, DC: Last night, I had the pleasure of being a panelist at a Coke Appellate Inn of Court meeting focusing on appellate blogging and #AppellateTwitter with co-panelists Kannon Shanmugan, Sean Marotta, and Jaime Santos.

I have had the pleasure of speaking to numerous appellate-related audiences over the years, but I doubt that I have ever visited a group containing more long-term and enthusiastic readers of this blog than last night’s attendees. It was my great pleasure to attend the program, see so many friends from the past, and meet plenty of new friends, some of whom also have or had a presence online. It somehow took me nearly 16 years since this blog’s creation to attend a Coke Appellate Inn meeting, but I hope to return much sooner for another visit. A photo of last night’s panel, including moderator Kelsi Brown Corkran, can be viewed at this link.

Before yesterday evening’s event, I had the pleasure of visiting Nationals Park to see the Atlanta Braves at the Washington Nationals. Here’s the view from my seat. Demonstrating the often unexpected reach of #AppellateTwitter, as a result of a reply I tweeted during my journey by train to DC, a member of the National’s off-field staff who’s an enthusiastic U.S. Supreme Court follower contacted me saying that he would be interested to meet me in-person if I had time while I was at the game. Thanks to social media and this particular individual, a behind-the-scenes tour of Nationals Park may be on the agenda during my next visit to a ballgame there.

In today’s mail: I received a copy of professor Stephen L. Wasby‘s new book, “Borrowed Judges: Visitors in the U.S. Courts of Appeals.” If a target audience for a book such as this exists anywhere, it would have to consist largely of the readers of this blog.