“Ohio Cancer Researcher Loses Libel Case Against NY Times”: Kevin Koeninger of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued yesterday.

“America is ‘better off’ with ‘fewer nonwhites’ says Amy Wax at national conference”: Ashley Ahn of The Daily Pennsylvanian has this report.

“Antiabortion Movement Begins to Crack, After Decades of Unity; New wing of movement aims to challenge Roe v. Wade directly with ‘heartbeat’ bills, seeing hope in Supreme Court change, but traditional opponents say a defeat could stall momentum for years”: Jacob Gershman and Arian Campo-Flores have this front page article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Epstein Scandal Brings Legal Titans to Blows; Four-year battle between David Boies, Alan Dershowitz turns uglier following financier’s arrest”: Joe Palazzolo and Jacob Gershman will have this article in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Trump likely to tap Scalia’s son for Labor chief”: Gabby Orr, Marianne LeVine, Anita Kumar, and Ian Kullgren of Politico have this report.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg Suspended For Next 10 Rulings Following Supreme Court Bench-Clearing Brawl”: The Onion has this News in Brief.

“Justice Elena Kagan encourages gerrymandering protesters: ‘Carry on the efforts.'” Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

Sam Levine of HuffPost reports that “Elena Kagan Says She’ll Never Accept Supreme Court’s Partisan Gerrymandering Ruling; Kagan dissented strongly in the June 27 case and said Thursday she was writing for the future.”

And Jacqueline Thomsen of The Hill has a report headlined “Kagan: I will ‘never accept’ Supreme Court’s ruling on partisan gerrymandering.”

“Justice Kagan Remarks at Georgetown University Law Center: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan discusses the law and legal education at Georgetown University’s law center in Washington, DC.” C-SPAN has posted online at this link the video of this event from earlier this afternoon.

“Murder milestone: 5 years after Dan Markel was gunned down, journey to justice continues.” Karl Etters has this front page article in today’s edition of The Tallahassee Democrat.

“When John Paul Stevens Eviscerated Antonin Scalia: The late justice dismantled originalism in his dissent in District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark gun-rights case.” Matt Ford of The New Republic has this report.

“Justice Stevens leaves powerful environmental legacy”: Ellen M. Gilmer of Greenwire has this report.

And at the “School Law” blog of Education Week, Mark Walsh has a post titled “Retired Justice John Paul Stevens, a Voice for Student Rights, Dies at 99.”

“A ‘Train Wreck’ Was Averted at the Supreme Court, but for How Long? While the rule of law prevailed in the census case, it still hangs by a thread.” Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.