“The Homophobic Activist Who Won an Audience with Two Supreme Court Justices”: Masha Gessen has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Senate confirms William Nardini’s appointment to U.S. Court of Appeals by wide margin”: Edmund H. Mahony of The Hartford Courant has this report.

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm William J. Nardini to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by a vote of 86-to-2.

“Court: Life sentence not finished until death is permanent.” Matt Milner of The Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier has an article that begins, “The Iowa Court of Appeals has rejected the claims of a Wapello County man convicted of murder in 1997 who said a medical emergency fulfilled his life sentence.”

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs of The New York Times reports that “A Prisoner Who Briefly Died Argues That He’s Served His Life Sentence; A court in Iowa found that a murderer who was revived ‘is either still alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is actually dead, in which case this appeal is moot.’”

And Brendan O’Brien of Reuters reports that “Iowa inmate sentenced to life argues he briefly died and should be released.”

You can access Wednesday’s ruling of the Court of Appeals of Iowa at this link.

“U.S. Supreme Court to consider blocking Booking.com trademark”: Andrew Chung of Reuters has this report.

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Booking.com Case Gets Supreme Court Review in Trademark Test.”

And Tim Ryan of Courthouse News Service reports that “Booking.com Trademark Case Taken Up by High Court.”

You can access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court, consisting solely of this grant of review, at this link.

“Marathon bomber Tsarnaev’s lawyers fail in bid to unseal document”: Travis Andersen of The Boston Globe has this report on an order that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today.

“Forsaken by Trump, immigrant ‘Dreamers’ seek U.S. Supreme Court reprieve”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Democrats Are About to Lose the Federal Courts for a Lifetime; If Democrats don’t take bold action and make the federal courts an electoral priority, we will lose them for a lifetime”: Jessica Mason Pieklo has this essay online at Rewire.News.

“Trump Tax Case Should Be an Easy Supreme Court Call”: Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“DACA at the Supreme Court”: Andrew Pincus has this post at the “Balkinization” blog.