“General Motors Shielded From Punitive Damages on Ignition Switches; An appeals court limits car maker’s liability for faulty ignition switches linked to more than 100 deaths”: Andrew Scurria of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Jamie L. LaReau of The Detroit Free Press reports that “GM doesn’t have to pay punitive damages for defect that killed dozens, court rules.”

And Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has a report headlined “GM not liable for punitive damages in ignition switch cases: U.S. appeals court.”

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

“Trump to flip 11th Circuit to majority GOP-appointed judges; third appeals court to change majority”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has an article that begins, “Senate Republicans confirmed one of President Trump’s judicial nominees to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday and will flip the federal appeals court to a majority of Republican-appointed active judges with another confirmation later this week.”

Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Florida Supreme Court Justice Robert J. Luck to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit by a vote of 64-to-31.

“Are Ben & Jerry’s cows actually happy? That question may be settled in court.” Dugan Arnett has this front page article in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

“Bill Barr, the Man From 1980; His controversial speeches offer a message to conservative elites: Even under Trump, it will always be the Reagan era.” Columnist Ross Douthat has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Class action watchdog Ted Frank files objection to Equifax deal”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Could Justice Thomas Preside over President Trump’s Impeachment Trial?” Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman have this guest post at the “Balkinization” blog.

“Department of Justice Attorneys Uncover Suspected Criminal Activity by Abortion Provider While Litigating Case Now Before SCOTUS; Provider Tries to Hide Evidence from SCOTUS and Prosecutors”: The Louisiana Attorney General’s Office issued this news release yesterday.

“Judges as Referees”: Adam Chilton has this post at the new “Summary, Judgment” blog.

“Counterfeit Textualism: How to think about the Title VII cases.” Robert P. George has this essay online at National Review.

“The Learned Sixth: Kethledge, Hayek, and ‘executive activism.'” Benjamin Beaton has this post at the “Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog.”

“What is this?” That’s the title of today’s first post at a new law blog titled “Summary, Judgment” written by Adam Chilton and Will Baude, both of whom are law professors at the University of Chicago.

Thanks to my blog, I have known Will since he was in law school himself, and he has been a reader of this blog dating back nearly to its launch in May 2002. Will’s newest blog represents no less than the third blog at which I have had the pleasure to link to his posts.

And for those of you (including U.S. Supreme Court Justices, whose mistakes in this regard are now memorialized in oral argument recordings) wishing to learn the correct pronunciation of Will’s last name, I have also had two posts (here and here) providing the answer.

“The Supreme Court May Criminalize Immigrant Advocacy; The case could let the government prosecute people for routine legal work or even sympathetic tweets”: Lorelei Laird has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Transparency Across the Judiciary: How Federal Appeals Courts Stack Up.” Fix the Court today issued this report and a related news release.

“How Conservatives Turned the ‘Color-Blind Constitution’ Against Racial Progress; Progressives used to argue that the Constitution doesn’t see race; Now conservatives have weaponized that same idea”: Theodore R. Johnson has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“The Trump lawsuit testing the limits of presidential immunity, explained; Trump v. Mazars is the biggest presidential immunity case since the Nixon administration”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Remington’s Sandy Hook Dilemma: Settle or Fight On; The Supreme Court didn’t stop a lawsuit against the gun manufacturer; Now it has to weigh the risks of going to court versus cutting a deal.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.