“Facebook defeats appeal in U.S. claiming it aided Hamas attacks in Israel”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.

And Chris Dolmetsch of Bloomberg News reports that “Facebook Isn’t Responsible as Terrorist Platform, Court Says.”

You can access today’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

“Crystallex would need sanctions waiver to seize Citgo shares — Guaido adviser”: Luc Cohen of Reuters has this report.

“Senate Democrats push constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United decision”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“U.S. federal death penalty protocol faces fresh legal scrutiny”: Sarah N. Lynch of Reuters has this report.

“Arizona attorney general wants U.S. Supreme Court’s help to take money from family behind opioid drugmaker”: Andrew Oxford of The Arizona Republic has this report.

Anita Snow and Geoff Mulvihill of The Associated Press report that “Arizona asks for US Supreme Court involvement in opioid case.”

And Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Arizona tells US Supreme Court that the Sackler family is ‘looting’ money to avoid legal penalties in opioid cases.”

“The Supreme Court could soon decide how the American West deals with homelessness”: Patt Morrison has this interview with attorney Theane Evangelis online at The Los Angeles Times.

“Tribute to Michael Dreeben: A gifted advocate and a principled man.” Senior Federal Circuit Judge William C. Bryson has this guest post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Arizona Files Novel Lawsuit in Supreme Court Over Opioid Crisis”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. You can view the court filing at this link.

“Supreme Court 2018 Term in Review: Waaaaay Too Soon to Say that Kavanaugh-for-Kennedy Was Not a Game Changer.” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“Blatant Contradictions in Qualified-Immunity Appeals”: Law professor Bryan Lammon — author of the “final decisions” blog — has posted this article online at SSRN.

“Confirmation Bias: Carl Hulse talks to fellow New York Times writer Maureen Dowd about the chaos that erupted in Washington after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death.” Earlier this month, Slate posted online this “Live at Politics and Prose” podcast.

“Calif. Supreme Court rejects strict ascertainability standard, boosts class actions”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post about a ruling that the Supreme Court of California issued yesterday.

“Tribute to Michael Dreeben”: Noel Francisco has this guest post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Court: Political status vote is illegally race-based.” Steve Limtiaco of The Pacific Daily News of Guam has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Parma man who created fake police department Facebook page can proceed with lawsuit, court says”: Eric Heisig of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report.

And Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has a report headlined “Man can sue over arrest for parody Facebook page mocking police: U.S. court.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

“Venezuela’s Citgo Stake Can Be Seized, Appeals Court Says; Venezuela’s opposition government loses ruling to Citgo creditor Crystallex, opening the door to a potential sale of the oil refiner”: Andrew Scurria of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen of Reuters report that “Court ruling against Venezuela in Crystallex case puts Citgo at risk.”

And Jef Feeley, Bob Van Voris, and Porter Wells of Bloomberg News report that “Venezuela Faces the Loss of Citgo — and Desperately Needed Dollars.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

“Third Circuit plans an important courthouse exhibit on judicial independence”: “CA3blog” has this post.

“Alan Dershowitz, Devil’s Advocate: The noted lawyer’s long, controversial career — and the accusations against him.” Connie Bruck has this Annals of Law article in the August 5, 2019 issue of The New Yorker.

Also in that issue, Tyler Foggatt has a Talk of the Town piece titled “Justice Stevens’s Dissenting Shakespeare Theory — Among the late Supreme Court Justice’s controversial opinions: a belief that the Bard’s works were actually written by Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford.”

“Why The 2020 Census Citizenship Question Hasn’t Gone Away”: Hansi Lo Wang had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“Academic Freedom, Even for Amy Wax”: Keith E. Whittington has this guest post at the “Academe Blog.”

“Texas Made An Example Out Of Crystal Mason — For Trying To Vote: She’s appealing a five-year prison sentence and fighting to save her home, all so the state can prop up the myth of ‘voter fraud’; There are serious questions about the case against her.” Sam Levine of HuffPost has this report.

And earlier this month, Mitch Mitchell of The Forth Worth Star-Telegram had articles headlined “Breaking Crystal: Texas illegal voter freed by feds to fight 5-year state prison sentence” and “Fights about voting trigger countless court cases in Texas. You should expect more.”

“The Census and the Constitution”: Robert R. Gasaway has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

Pryor on the meaning of “prior”: Eleventh Circuit Judge William H. Pryor Jr. issued this opinion, quoting the Oxford English Dictionary, on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel on Friday.

And for those interested in administrative law, Judge Pryor’s separate concurring opinion (also on behalf of all three judges on the panel) discussing the Administrative Orders Review Act will likely be worth a look.

“SF appeals court reverses lower court’s denial of class-action status in Nissan lawsuit”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued on Friday.

Falsely yelling “I’m a U.S. Marshal” in a crowded theater also turns out to lack First Amendment protection: So held a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in an entertaining opinion written by Circuit Judge Michael B. Brennan.

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses the 2018-19 Supreme Court term”: Duke Law has posted this video on YouTube.

And Jeannie Naujeck of Duke Law News reports that “Justice Ginsburg reflects on longevity, Court collegiality, and dysfunction in confirmation process during annual Duke Law conversation.”

“Gay discrimination case pending in Supreme Court unusually long time”: Dillon Rosenblatt of the Arizona Capitol Times has an article that begins, “Dissent among Arizona Supreme Court justices in a gay discrimination case could be why they still have not issued a ruling since oral arguments six months ago, an Arizona State University law professor said.”

“Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss to retire in December”: Tim Carpenter of The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report.

And Dion Lefler of The Wichita Eagle reports that “Kansas Chief Justice Nuss retires after landmark rulings on abortion, school finance.”

“Liberal groups seek to make Supreme Court an issue in 2020 presidential race, and conservatives exult”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Two more apology letters surface from Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jefferson Hughes III; Hughes says he doesn’t remember writing them, recipient says ‘somebody should have stopped him a long time ago'”: Andrea Gallo and John Simerman have this front page article in today’s edition of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“RBG’s voice on the Supreme Court is more emphatic than ever. Here’s why.” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“Trump’s Death Penalty Obsession Won’t Stem the Tide Against Executions; The decision to resume federal executions may play well to Trump’s base, but the rest of America is growing disillusioned with capital punishment”: Professor Austin Sarat has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Death Penalty in U.S. Was Heading Toward Extinction Until Trump”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Supreme Court Lets Trump Proceed on Border Wall”: Adam Liptak had this front page article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

In Saturday’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes had a front page article headlined “Supreme Court says Trump can proceed with plan to spend military funds for border wall construction.”

In Saturday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage had a front page article headlined “Supreme Court rules for Trump in border wall funding dispute.”

In Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin, Louise Radnofsky, and Andrew Restuccia had a front page article headlined “Trump Scores Two Victories on Border; Supreme court rules Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall; Guatemala agrees to require migrants traveling through it to the U.S. to seek asylum there.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court allows border wall spending in battle between President Donald Trump and liberal opponent.”

And Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court rules Trump can begin border wall construction.”

You can view Friday evening’s 5-to-4 order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“RBG on Kentucky senator who said she’d die: I’m still alive, and he isn’t.” Lucas Aulbach of The Louisville Courier Journal has an article that begins, “It’s been a long time, but Ruth Bader Ginsburg clearly hasn’t forgotten some controversial comments by former U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning.”