“California judges to get $15,000 checks for raises they missed during recession”: Adam Ashton of The Sacramento Bee has an article that begins, “The state of California owes about $40 million in back wages to judges after Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration lost its last appeal in a long-running lawsuit that centers on how it calculated their raises after the recession.”
And David Ettinger has a post titled “Newbie Supreme Court denies review in judicial pay case” at the “At the Lectern” blog.
“The Hysteria about the New Roberts Court”: John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law and Liberty” blog.
“My day with Sandra Day O’Connor”: Rich Landers has this essay online at The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington.
Back in July 2005, Landers had a column in that newspaper headlined “O’Connor picks wade over row.” Those of you who were reading “How Appealing” back on July 20, 2005 may recall that I originally linked to this very same column that day.
“DOJ looks to silent majority of SCOTUS to shield Trump officials in census battle”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.
“Trump Has Named a Lot of Judges, But Courts’ Ideological Balance Is Slow to Shift; While focus has been on Supreme Court, GOP bid to reshape judiciary at appellate level has mostly made already conservative circuits more so”: Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“What Happens When a College’s Affirmative-Action Policy Is Found Illegal: A Supreme Court case found that the University of Michigan was using race in admissions the wrong way; Then the state stepped in, and minority enrollments dropped.” Adam Harris of The Atlantic has this report.
“Is an Extroverted Applicant Better Suited for Harvard Than an Introvert?” Anemona Hartocollis has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
Carrie Jung of Boston’s WBUR Radio reports that “Harvard Admissions Trial Centers Around Statistics To Demonstrate Bias” and “Plaintiffs In Harvard Admissions Trial Expected To Rest Case Friday.”
And Esteban Bustillos of Boston’s WGBH Radio has a report headlined “Harvard Trial: Plaintiffs Center Argument On Statistics.”
Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in three new cases.
“Full #InvestInEd opinion released; AZ Supreme Court voted 5-2 to knock it off ballot”: Lily Altavena of The Arizona Republic has this report.
You can access today’s opinions of the Supreme Court of Arizona at this link.
“Supreme Court weighs whether to hear its first abortion-related case since Kavanaugh joined the bench”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.
“The unintended perils of investigating Kavanaugh”: Law professor Jonathan Turley has this essay online at The Hill.
“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: Judge Buckley Makes an Appearance!” Aaron Nielson has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.
“Dining club emails reveal Kavanaugh’s close ties to Trump’s solicitor general; New supreme court justice was a member of the Eureka club with Noel Francisco, who argues government cases before court”: Stephanie Kirchgaessner of The Guardian (UK) has this report.
“Justice Thomas in his Own Words”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”
“Widow’s Plane Crash Claims Not Preempted, 3rd Circ. Says”: Bill Wichert of Law360 has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued yesterday.
