“MacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Brian Hagedorn, Wisconsin’s Newest Supreme Court Justice.” The MacIver Institute has posted this podcast episode online.

“Partisan gap widens in views of the Supreme Court”: Claire Brockway and Bradley Jones of Pew Research Center have this report.

“Georgia, Florida taking their water feud to New Mexico”: Tamar Hallerman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

And Jim Saunders of the News Service of Florida reports that “Judge to hear arguments in Florida/Georgia ‘Water War.’“

“A Florida woman was fined $100,000 for a dirty pool and overgrown grass. When do fines become excessive? States, cities and counties collect billions of dollars in fines. The Supreme Court raised the possibility that some are going too far.” Kristine Phillips of USA Today recently had this report.

“U. of I. professor faces dismissal over email, ‘unprofessional conduct'”: Back in November 2013, Jodi S. Cohen (then) of The Chicago Tribune had an article that begins, “The dispute began over a $500 teaching award that a University of Illinois engineering professor believes he was wrongly denied.”

Yesterday, in an opinion by Circuit Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued this decision affirming the district court’s entry of summary judgment against the professor’s lawsuit challenging his dismissal from a tenured faculty position.

“Fifth Circuit Deals a Blow to EEOC’s Criminal Record Guidance”: Rod M. Fliegel and Molly Shah of Littler Mendelson P.C. have this report.

Earlier, Erin Mulvaney of Bloomberg Law reported that “Texas Fight Over EEOC Criminal History Policy Gets 5th Cir. Test” (subscription required for full access).

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

Ahoy, Matey! Yesterday, Third Circuit Judge Paul B. Matey issued his first published opinion. Perhaps it won’t be much longer until he butts heads with Bibas.

“Is UMass-Amherst Biased Against Male Students in Title IX Assault Cases? Two new lawsuits say the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is overzealous in its prosecution and punishment of male students in Title IX assault hearings.” Emily Shire of The Daily Beast had this report back in August 2014.

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued this decision in one of those two cases, ruling that the university violated the male student’s federal constitutional right to due process in suspending him for five months without prior notice or a fair hearing.

“Court bolsters US power to grab Chinese bank records; Ruling said to have far-reaching implications for lenders with US correspondent accounts”: Kadhim Shubber of Financial Times has this report.

Christian Berthelsen and Tom Schoenberg of Bloomberg News report that “Chinese Banks Probed Over Aid to North Korea’s Nuclear Arms.”

And Tim Ryan of Courthouse News Service reports that “Panel OKs Fines Against Chinese Banks in North Korea Probe.”

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit posted online this redacted version of an opinion that the court issued under seal one week ago.

When the D.C. Circuit issued its judgment last week, Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post had an article headlined “In first, U.S. appeals court upholds contempt fines against three Chinese banks in North Korean sanctions probe.”

And Jan Wolfe and David Brunnstrom of Reuters report that “U.S. appeals court upholds ruling against Chinese banks in North Korea sanctions probe.”