“Salary History Ruling by Ninth Circuit on Track to Supreme Court”: Patrick Dorrian of Bloomberg Law has a report (subscription required for full access) that begins, “Fresno County, Calif., signaled its intent to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit’s Feb. 27 ruling that a worker’s prior salary history isn’t job-related and can never be considered by a new employer when setting starting pay.”
“Planned Parenthood shooting: State Supreme Court considers whether property owners shoulder blame in mass shootings.” Shelly Bradbury of The Denver Post has this report.
“Motown Songwriter Beats IRS in $20 Million Tax Lien Case”: Jeffery Leon of Bloomberg Tax has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today.
“Whole Foods Loses Bid to Trim Employee Class Action”: Alexandra Jones of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.
“Appeals Court Affirms That the Trump Administration Has to Release the Unredacted Mueller Report; A liberal judge and a conservative judge team up to outvote a Trump judge”: Jeremy Stahl has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo is married in prison; No details released about bride or ceremony”: Tom Jackman of The Washington Post has this report.
“A Federal Judge Condemned the ‘Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy.’ It’s About Time.” Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
And earlier today, at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Josh Blackman had a post titled “Judge Lynn Adelman (ED.Wi) on CJ Roberts’s Confirmation Hearing: ‘Masterpiece of Disingenuousness.’”
Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman (E.D. Wis.) posted on SSRN an article titled “The Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy.”
“Sotomayor recuses from one of two Supreme Court cases with consequences for electoral college”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.
Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Sotomayor to sit out Colorado ‘faithless electors’ Supreme Court case; The justice took herself off the case involving a challenge to a state law on how presidential electors must cast votes because of a personal friendship with one of the challengers.”
Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Justice Sonia Sotomayor won’t participate in Colorado faithless elector case.”
And Harper Neidig of The Hill reports that “Sotomayor recuses herself from case on ‘faithless electors.’”
You can access at this link the letter that the Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court issued today to the parties in the case.
“Schumer faces mounting ethics complaints over Supreme Court comments”: Ronn Blitzer of Fox News has this report.
“Historic swap? Bill would replace bust of Dred Scott decision author at Capitol with one of Thurgood Marshall.” Jeff Barker of The Baltimore Sun has this report.
And in today’s edition of The Washington Times, Gabriella Muñoz and Jeff Mordock have a front page article headlined “‘Reexamining our history’: Dems want to remove Roger Taney bust from Capitol.”
“Last Meals on Death Row, a Peculiarly American Fascination; Researching his book on final-menu fantasies, the critic Jay Rayner came across an unsettling body of work about the choices of the condemned”: Jay Rayner, restaurant critic for The London Observer, has this article online at The New York Times. Rayner’s latest book is titled “My Last Supper: One Meal, A Lifetime In The Making.”
“Justice Department must disclose secret Mueller grand jury evidence to Congress, appeals court finds”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.
Charlie Savage of The New York Times reports that “House Can See Mueller’s Secret Grand Jury Evidence, Appeals Court Rules; The decision is a victory for Congress’s power to obtain information for an impeachment inquiry; The Trump administration is likely to appeal.”
Brent Kendall and Byron Tau of The Wall Street Journal report that “Appeals Court Rules Congress Can Have Access to Mueller Grand-Jury Materials; House Democrats sought materials that were redacted in Mueller report on Russian interference in 2016 election.”
Eric Tucker of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: House entitled to Mueller probe grand jury testimony.”
Jan Wolfe of Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court says House panel can access Mueller report material.”
Bob Van Voris of Bloomberg News reports that “Congress Wins Ruling Giving it Access to Mueller Records.”
Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico report that “Democrats should get Mueller evidence, judges rule; It’s a major win for House Democrats seeking to obtain more information from the Russia probe.”
And Harper Neidig of The Hill reports that “Appeals court rules DOJ must give sealed Mueller materials to Congress.”
You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in which each of the three judges wrote an opinion, at this link.
“Janus, whose case ended mandatory union fees, wants Supreme Court’s help getting money back”: Tyler Olson of Fox News has this report.
And Harper Neidig of The Hill reports that “Former public worker asks Supreme Court to force repayment of union dues.”
“Supreme Court declines to hear closely watched bar association dues case”: James Varney of The Washington Times has this report.