“Prisoner ‘Three Strikes Rule’ Case Fails to Sway Justices”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And Tim Ryan of Courthouse News Service reports that “Leave to Amend Doesn’t Bear on Inmate Fee Waivers, High Court Rules.”

“Habeas Procedures in the 11th Draw Out Sotomayor”: Megan Mineiro of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“John Couriel, New Florida Supreme Court Justice, Centered His Life Around Public Service; Those who know Florida Supreme Court Justice John D. Couriel expect him to excel in his new role”: Michael A. Mora of the Daily Business Review has this report.

“A 1989 Supreme Court ruling is unintentionally providing cover for police brutality”: Columnist Charles Lane has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Judge in Jeffrey Epstein grand jury case has ties to those with a stake in outcome”: Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald has this report.

And in related coverage, Alan Feuer of The New York Times reports that “Prince Andrew and U.S. Prosecutor in Nasty Dispute Over Epstein Case; The spat over whether the prince is willing to help in a sex-trafficking inquiry escalated, with a top federal prosecutor effectively calling the British royal a liar.”

“The Quiet Demise of the Separation of Church and State; The government is allowing federal pandemic aid to pay for clergy salaries, something that once would have been unthinkable”: Law professors Nelson Tebbe, Micah Schwartzman, and Richard Schragger have this essay online at The New York Times.

“Made Up Immunities”: You can access today’s new installment of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast — featuring Jaime Santos and law professor Kate Shaw and their guest, law professor Fred Smith Jr. — via this link.

“Practice in Place: My Interview with David Lat.” Tessa L. Dysart has this post at the “Appellate Advocacy Blog” about this video interview.

“The Judge in the Michael Flynn Case Is Botching His Effort to Defend the Rule of Law”: Ankush Khardori has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Pandemic means a silent June at the Supreme Court”: Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press has this report.

Access today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in an argued case: Justice Elena Kagan delivered the opinion of the Court in Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez, No. 18-8369. You can access the oral argument via this link.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in one new case.

And in St. Hubert v. United States, No. 19–5267, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a statement respecting the denial of certiorari.

Unanimous Fourth Circuit panel orders the dismissal of actions challenging the Trump administration’s travel ban: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link. The panel that decided this appeal is more conservative than the Fourth Circuit overall, so en banc review is a possibility here.

“Feds press criminal case against Flynn partner; The move occurs even amid ongoing efforts to drop charges against Michael Flynn”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report on a reply brief that federal prosecutors filed yesterday(!) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

And in last Wednesday’s edition of The New York Times, Adam Goldman had an article headlined “Move to Drop Flynn Charge Reverberates in Ex-Business Partner’s Case; Lawyers for Bijan Kian argue that prosecutors should drop their appeal of his acquittal because it was intertwined with the case of the former national security adviser.”

“William Barr, Trump’s ‘Law and Order’ Enabler”: David Rohde has this post online at The New Yorker.

Video Killed the Radio Star? Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of being the first oral advocate to argue by remote video before an en banc session of the Pa. Superior Court. That Court streams its video oral arguments live on YouTube, but the court does not archive the videos for later viewing on demand.

Today at 12:15 p.m. eastern time, I have a Pa. Superior Court telephonic oral argument before a three-judge panel of that court. Fittingly perhaps — but unlike with that court’s video oral arguments — the only way for the public to listen in to a telephonic oral argument is by telephone.

If, in the words of Chance the Gardener, you like to watch, you can view the music video of The Buggles song mentioned in the title of this post (with my addition of a question mark) on YouTube via this link.

“Florida Supreme Court’s conservatives are reversing longstanding criminal protections. It’s ‘alarming,’ defense lawyers say.” Monivette Cordeiro of The Orlando Sentinel has this report.

“Supreme Court Weighs Qualified Immunity For Police Accused Of Misconduct”: Nina Totenberg of NPR has this report.