“Richard Sobol, Civil Rights Lawyer in the South, Dies at 82; Unlike other Northern lawyers who joined the struggle in the South, he stayed, and won a landmark case”: Katharine Q. Seelye of The New York Times has this report.

“How Will Chief Justice And Supreme Court Conservative Majority Affect 2020 Election?” Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s edition of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“A Precedent Overturned Reveals a Supreme Court in Crisis; Separate opinions in a case show nine justices pursuing agendas far removed from the dispute at hand”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Ted Frank wants to see class counsel’s ex parte draft opinion in Equifax case”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has a post that begins, “The class action watchdog Ted Frank of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute has asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to order the disclosure of a proposed order drafted by class counsel in the $380.5 million Equifax data breach case, arguing that if the trial judge’s 122-page opinion approving the settlement was ‘largely a verbatim edition of an opinion class counsel drafted,’ it must be overturned.”

You can access at this link the motion for relief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

“Courtroom access: ‘There’s got to be a better way to do this.'” Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Appeals court finds Constitutional right to literacy for schoolchildren in Detroit case”: John Wisely of The Detroit Free Press has this report.

Christine Ferretti and Beth LeBlanc of The Detroit News have a report headlined “Appeals court: Detroit students have fundamental right to education.”

And Corey Williams of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Appeals court: Detroit students have a right to literacy.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

“McConnell Vows Return To Judicial Confirmations In May”: Andrew Kragie of Law360 has this report.

“Texas Supreme Court Reinstates Order Banning Release Of Some Inmates; A judge in Austin temporarily blocked GA-13 earlier this month, after judges argued it hindered their ability to use discretion in releasing people from jail”: Paul DeBenedetto of Houston Public Media has this report on a per curiam decision on writ of mandamus that the Supreme Court of Texas issued today.

“The Supreme Court Takes a Small Step in the Direction of Judicial Independence”: Darcy Covert and A.J. Wang have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. It begins, “On Monday, the United States Supreme Court did something it had not done for nearly a decade: it denied a motion by the solicitor general to participate in oral argument in a case to which the federal government is not a party.”

“Fordham Urban Law Journal Symposium on Knick v. Township of Scott”: Ilya Somin has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” You can access the contents of the symposium via this link.

“Justice Alito’s jurisprudence of white racial innocence; Alito gets very upset if you suggest that racism exists”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“The Chevron Doctrine’s Shrinking Domain”: John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“Finding Real Life in Teaching Law Online”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this interesting post online at The New Yorker.

Access today’s rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court issued rulings in three argued cases.

1. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh delivered the opinion of the Court in Barton v. Barr, Np. 18-725. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, and Elena Kagan joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

2. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the Court in Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc., No. 18-1233. Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. issued a concurring opinion, in which Justices Breyer and Kagan joined. And Justice Sotomayor issued an opinion concurring in the judgment. You can access the oral argument via this link.

3. And Justice Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, No. 18-260. Justice Kavanaugh issued a concurring opinion. Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Gorsuch joined. And Justice Alito issued a dissenting opinion. You can access the oral argument via this link.