“Feds Can’t Spend More Prosecuting California Pot Growers”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued Friday.

“Texas Couple Found Guilty of Enslaving Girl From Guinea for 16 Years”: Niraj Chokshi of The New York Times had this article back in January 2019.

On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued this decision affirming the convictions.

“4th Circuit: Rastafarian Inmate Can Move Ahead With His Suit Over Solitary Confinement.” Howard Friedman has this post at his “Religion Clause” blog about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued Friday.

“Appeals court: 1st federal execution in 17 years can proceed.” Michael Balsamo of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court ruled Sunday that the first federal execution in nearly two decades may proceed as scheduled on Monday.”

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

“Supreme Court future becomes pivotal issue in Senate races”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Supreme Court Lets Trump Win While Losing”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.

“Bostock and mindlessness”: Andrew Koppelman has this post at the “Balkinization” blog.

Also at that blog, Jason Mazzone has a related post titled “Bostock: Were the liberal justices namudnoed?“

“Before World War II and seat on Supreme Court, Colorado’s Byron ‘Whizzer’ White had iconic football career”: Ryan O’Halloran of The Denver Post has this report.

“Robocall case exposes a troubling free-speech split on the Supreme Court”: Columnist Michael McGough recently had this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“The McGirt Case Is a Historic Win for Tribes; For federal Indian law, this might be the Gorsuch Court”: Julian Brave NoiseCat has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“The Halted Progress of Criminal-Justice Reform; Prosecutors are charging protesters with federal crimes, exposing them to long prison sentences, in another example of the Justice Department’s grotesque overreach under Attorney General William Barr”: Jeffrey Toobin will have this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the July 20, 2020 issue of The New Yorker.

“Think this was a liberal term at the Supreme Court? You probably missed some cases.” Law professor Leah Litman has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Why did liberals win so many cases before a conservative Supreme Court? The Court’s term included several surprisingly liberal decisions. Don’t expect many of them to last.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Latest Term Shows John Roberts in Command of Shifting Coalitions; The chief justice, at the court’s center, is a strong voice for independence”: Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal have this report.