“Missouri Death Row Inmate Loses Bid for New Execution Method”: Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued today.

“Yen Libor-rigging litigation revived by U.S. appeals court”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“EPA loses case seeking modeling behind Obama mileage rollback”: Rebecca Beitsch of The Hill has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“As more states look to ban abortion during pandemic, legal battles erupt nationwide”: Arelis R. Hernández and Robert Barnes of The Washington Post have this report.

“Kevin Thomas Duffy, U.S. Judge in Terrorism Cases, Dies at 87; An independent-minded jurist, he oversaw the World Trade Center bombing trial and another involving a plot to down jetliners; He died of the coronavirus”: Joseph P. Fried of The New York Times has written this obituary.

“A second pandemic: Virus opportunism.” Online at The Washington Post, columnist George F. Will has this essay about a petition for writ of certiorari pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

“For a Supreme Court Justice on Lockdown, Debates Now Focus on Video Night; At home in Cambridge, Mass., Justice Stephen Breyer continues deliberations with fellow judges by phone, jogs and makes pot roast”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

The Institute for Justice’s “Pennsylvania Judicial Engagement State Forum” has been postponed: I just received word, not unexpectedly under the circumstances, that this event scheduled to take place in Philadelphia on May 14, 2020, at which I was to deliver the keynote address, has been postponed in the hope of being rescheduled this fall.

“The biggest obstacle to remote voting in Congress may be Democratic mistrust of the Supreme Court; Speaker Nancy Pelosi says there are ‘serious constitutional’ concerns with remote voting; Is she right?” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Courtroom access: The nuts and bolts of courtroom seating — and the lines for public access.” Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Records in 1946 Lynching Case Must Remain Sealed, Court Rules; No one was ever charged in the killing of two black couples by a group of white men in rural Georgia, known as the Moore’s Ford lynchings”: Neil Vigdor has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

And Kevin Coughlin of MorristownGreen.com reports that “Morris lawyer, striving to solve 1946 lynching, vows Supreme Court appeal.”

“How the coronavirus fight might end up at the Supreme Court”: Bonnie Kristian has this essay online at The Week.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg continues to work out at Supreme Court private gym, her trainer says”: Veronica Stracqualursi of CNN has this report.

“How ‘Grateful’ David Lat, Eyeing Hospital Discharge, Is Contributing to COVID-19 Research”: Jason Grant of the New York Law Journal has this report.