“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.”