“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.