“Could sports-betting ruling invalidate US death penalty law?” Wilson Ring of The Associated Press has this report.

“Judge sides with Gloucester transgender student on bathroom access issue”: Peter Dujardin of The Daily Press of Newport News, Virginia has this report.

Moriah Balingit of The Washington Post reports that “Court sides with transgender Va. student in his fight to use the boys’ bathroom.”

Ben Finley of The Associated Press reports that “Judge sides with transgender teen, declines to dismiss suit.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. court backs transgender student at center of bathroom dispute.”

Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Court rules federal civil rights law protects transgender people.”

Antonia Blumberg and Ryan J. Reilly of HuffPost report that “Federal Court Sides With Transgender Teen Gavin Grimm In Bathroom Fight; The court denied a motion to dismiss Grimm’s lawsuit against the Gloucester County School Board.”

And Dominic Holden of BuzzFeed News reports that “A Judge Just Ruled For A Transgender Student In A Major Case; The decision reanimates the nation’s most prominent case over transgender student restroom rights.”

“A Supreme Court Decision That Was a Wild Card”: Melina Delkic of The New York Times has this Times Insider report.

The Fourth Circuit has issued its ruling in Under Seal 1 v. Under Seal 2: Although non-precedential, today’s opinion is not under seal.

“Did the Supreme Court Just Gut the New Deal? Monday’s ruling banning employee class-action suits could open the door to destroying non-union workers’ rights.” Simon Lazarus has this essay online at The American Prospect.

“Epic Distortion: Neil Gorsuch’s ruling on mandatory arbitration clauses doesn’t reflect the reality of American labor relations.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Arbitration Fight Isn’t Over: How states can counteract the Supreme Court’s awful ruling in Epic Systems v. Lewis.” Law professor Daniel Hemel has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Faith Ryan Whittlesey, 79, top Reagan aide and two-time ambassador to Switzerland”: Bonnie L. Cook of The Philadelphia Inquirer has written this obituary.

According to this interview that she gave and other accounts that I have heard, Whittlesey was the White House official who suggested the nomination of the judge for whom I clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

“Viacom’s SpongeBob keeps rights to ‘Krusty Krab’ restaurant name”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued today.

If you were looking forward to Fifth Circuit Judge Don R. Willett‘s take on SpongeBob — and frankly who isn’t — sadly you will need to keep waiting, as he wasn’t on the three-judge panel that decided this appeal.

“Justice Kagan and Paul Clement share SG stories with American Law Institute”: Andrew Hamm has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the super diva of America’s Supreme Court: The opera-loving judge has become a cult figure imitated on ‘Saturday Night Live.'” Courtney Weaver has this essay (subscription required) online at Financial Times. You may be able to freely access the essay via Google News.

“Dueling Cosmic Injunctions, DACA and Departmentalism”: Josh Blackman has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Interview with Judge Jeffrey Sutton About his New Book ’51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law’ — Part II.” Ilya Somin has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“This Is What a More Conservative Supreme Court Looks Like: The political and legal divides over workers’ class-action lawsuit were predictable.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.