“Death Penalty Continues to Wane in U.S.; Death row’s population down in 2017 for 17th straight year”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Investiture of Judge Eric D. Miller”: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted this video on YouTube.

“Penn Law’s Wax Says She Has ‘No Plans’ to Leave School”: Stephanie Russell-Kraft of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And Penn Law has posted online the “Statement from Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger on recently reported comments by Professor Amy Wax.”

“Utah Supreme Court finds that state panel was unconstitutionally blocking medical malpractice lawsuits”: Jessica Miller and Benjamin Wood have this front page article in today’s edition of The Salt Lake Tribune.

And Annie Knox of The Deseret News reports that “Utah’s high court tosses hurdle to suing for malpractice.”

You can access last Friday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Utah at this link.

“Supreme Court legend John Paul Stevens’ Bill Clinton decision set a judicial standard that’s now fading; While many cursed Stevens’ opinion during the Clinton impeachment process, we would be wise to recognize the judicial legend’s good judgment and nonpartisanship today”: Law professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman has this essay online at NBC News.

“Former Justice John Paul Stevens traveled to Portugal at age 99, Ginsburg reveals at his funeral”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

Via “SCOTUSblog,” you can access the prepared remarks of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, First Circuit Judge David J. Barron, and granddaughter Hannah Mullen at today’s funeral of Justice John Paul Stevens.

“A Supreme Court entrenched in political drama is focus of two timely books for Trump era”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this review of two recent books.

“Conservatives and Originalism: Their Relationship, Reconsidered.” Jeffrey Pojanowski has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“State Supreme Court Diversity: Across the Country, Courts Fail to Reflect the Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Diversity of the Communities They Serve.” The Brennan Center for Justice today issued this report, by Laila Robbins and Alicia Bannon, with Malia Reddick.

Bannon and Robbins also have a related post at that organization’s blog titled “State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve; A new Brennan Center report details vast racial and gender disparities on state supreme courts around the country.”

And in today’s edition of The New York Times, Bannon and Robbins have an op-ed titled “The Nation’s Top State Courts Face a Crisis of Legitimacy; Judges on state supreme courts don’t reflect the diversity of their communities.”

“Penn Law dean calls professor Amy Wax’s comments on immigration and race ‘repugnant'”: Rob Tornoe of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“What the Justices Cited in OT 2018”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Professor Amy Wax And The Bell Curve: Eugenics and Social Darwinism are making a comeback.” LawProfBlawg has this post at “Above the Law.”

“The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge: A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?” Kera Bolonik has this post at “The Cut” blog of New York magazine.

“Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart to Receive 2019 Devitt Award”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued this news release today.

“We hold that non-commercial sex with a minor abroad fairly relates to foreign commerce, and that Congress accordingly acted within its constitutional bounds when it enacted the non-commercial part of [18 U.S.C.] section 2423(c).” A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this opinion today.

“For reasons of comity, we apply issue preclusion to bar our reconsideration of her Second Amendment claim, even though Defendants did not brief that defense in the district court.” So holds a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in an opinion issued today.

“Jeffrey Epstein appeals bail denial in sex trafficking case”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.

“10th Circuit reverses TABOR ruling, says lawsuit can challenge Colorado law’s constitutionality; Federal judge previously had found lawsuit’s plaintiffs lacked standing to sue”: Anna Staver of The Denver Post has this report.

Joey Bunch of The Gazette of Colorado Springs reports that “Federal appeals court revives lawsuit over Colorado’s TABOR.”

And at his “New Mexico Appellate Blog,” Emil J. Kiehne has a post titled “10th Circuit revives lawsuit challenging Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights.”

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

“Colorado state auditors investigating whistle-blower claims about fraud in Judicial Department; Allegations in anonymous letter sent in May to governor and chief justice”: David Migoya has this front page article in today’s edition of The Denver Post.

“Justice John Paul Stevens’ Casket Arrival and Memorial Ceremony at Supreme Court; The casket of the late, retired Justice John Paul Stevens arrived at the Supreme Court; Shortly after, a ceremony was held in the Supreme Court Great Hall with Justice Elena Kagan providing a tribute”: C-SPAN has posted this video online, along with a separate video titled “President and First Lady Pay Respects to Justice John Paul Stevens.”

“The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket: My dad was one of the only people with a good-for-life, go-anywhere American Airlines pass. Then they took it away. This is the true story of having — and losing — a superpower.” Caroline Rothstein has this article, which contains an appellate component, online at Narratively.