“Google wants Supreme Court to hear Oracle copyright case — just not quite yet”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Sweet Cakes owners appeal to U.S. Supreme Court”: Elliot Njus of The Oregonian has an article that begins, “The owners of a shuttered Gresham bakery fined by the state after refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple want to take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

You can view the petition for writ of certiorari at this link.

“Louisiana Might Finally Get Rid of Its Century-Old, Racist Jury System: Will it vote to join 48 other states in requiring a unanimous vote for a guilty verdict?” Dillon Lowe has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Supreme Court Term Limits Are Still a Good Idea: They’re the best way to get better justices and fewer confirmation battles.” Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“The Rise of an Elite Judicial Fraternity: The trend of former Supreme Court clerks becoming justices is new; But conservative groups are betting it will continue.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“Lawyer presses Harvard dean on diversity”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this blog post.

“Louisiana Ballot Measure Would Overturn Segregation-Era Law; Amendment that would require unanimous jury for felony conviction has bipartisan support”: Cameron McWhirter of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“‘Be prepared for the worst’: Bollinger warns that legal challenges could mean an end to affirmative action.” Mihika Nadig and Karen Xia of The Columbia Spectator have this report.

“AP Exclusive: Sandra Day O’Connor withdraws from public life.” Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press has this report.

“Expert: Race-neutral alternatives ‘workable’ for Harvard.” Josh Gerstein of Politico has this blog post.

“How Blatant Must a Prosecutor’s Racism Be for the SCOTUS to Notice?” Michael C. Dorf has this post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Professor Stephen Yelderman to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch​​​​​​​”: Kevin Allen of the Notre Dame Law School has this report online.

“Senate Judiciary Committee Keeps Humming Along”: Ed Whelan has this post at National Review’s “Bench Memos” blog.

“Originalism is the rage, but Constitution’s authors had something else in mind”: Jonathan Gienapp has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

And Alex Shashkevich of Stanford News reports that “New Stanford research reexamines the story of the U.S. Constitution’s creation; Stanford historian Jonathan Gienapp analyzed debates of early U.S. lawmakers in the decade following the Constitution’s creation; He argues these discussions shaped how Americans view this important document today.”

The title of Gienapp’s new book is “The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era.”

“Interview: Ross Guberman.” Anna Salvatore has posted this interview at her “High School SCOTUS” blog.

“Question at center of Harvard trial: What counts as discrimination?” Deirdre Fernandes has this front page article in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

Joan Biskupic of CNN reports that “The Harvard admission trial puts the school’s dirty secrets on display.”

And from The Harvard Crimson, Alexandra A. Chaidez, Molly C. McCafferty, and Aidan F. Ryan have an article headlined “‘This Is Not Who I Am’: For Harvard Admissions Dean, The Trial Is Personal.” Shera S. Avi-Yonah and Molly C. McCafferty have an article headlined “Asian-American Harvard Admits Earned Highest Average SAT Score of Any Racial Group From 1995 to 2013.” And the newspaper has published an editorial titled “Wealthy Applicants Should Not Get a Leg Up in Admissions.”

“What Is Harvard Trying to Hide? For years, reporters have been trying to get elite universities to be more transparent about their admissions process. It might take a court to pry it all open — with unforeseen consequences.” Josh Gerstein has this report online at Politico Magazine.

“OT2018 #4: ‘This Is About Frogs.'” You can access today’s new installment of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Ian Samuel and Dan Epps, via this link.