“New Jersey Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Law Survives for Now”: Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that a two-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today.

“Adnan Syed’s lawyer asks Supreme Court to take up ‘Serial’ case”: Colin Campbell of The Baltimore Sun has this report.

Paul LeBlanc of CNN reports that “Adnan Syed’s lawyers file petition for Supreme Court to take up ‘Serial’ case.”

And Chris Mills Rodrigo of The Hill reports that “Lawyers ask Supreme Court to take up ‘Serial’ podcast murder case.”

You can access the petition for writ of certiorari at this link.

“Justice Dept. reiterates it believes federal employment discrimination law doesn’t protect transgender workers”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“Tennessee executes Stephen Michael West by electric chair”: Matt Lakin, Mariah Timms, and Adam Tamburin of The Tennessean recently had this report.

And online at The New York Times, Margaret Renkl has an essay titled “What Part of ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ Don’t We Understand? Here in Tennessee, the hypocrisy of execution day is almost too much to bear.”

“The Fifth Circuit Creates a Zombie Action; An absurd application of the dismissals-without-prejudice rule means that a case is over in the district court but not final — and never can be final — for appeal”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.