“Charges against Curtis Flowers dismissed”: Amanda Sexton Ferguson of The Winona (Miss.) Times has this report.

Alissa Zhu of The Clarion Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi has an article headlined “‘Finally free’: Mississippi AG drops case against Curtis Flowers, tried 6 times for the same crime.”

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs of The New York Times reports that “After 6 Murder Trials and Nearly 24 Years, Charges Dropped Against Curtis Flowers; Mr. Flowers had faced the possibility of a seventh trial in the quadruple-murder case from Mississippi.”

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Charges dropped against man who was prosecuted six times for murder.”

Emily Wagster Pettus and Jeff Amy of The Associated Press report that “No 7th trial for Mississippi man freed from prison in 2019.”

Pierre Meilhan and Nicole Chavez of CNN report that “Mississippi drops case against Curtis Flowers after he was tried 6 times on murder charges.”

Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law reports that “Curtis Flowers Charges Dropped, Avoiding Seventh Murder Trial.”

And Parker Yesko of American Public Media, which produced the “In the Dark” podcast focusing on this case, has a report headlined “It’s Over: Charges against Curtis Flowers are dropped.”

“Mitch McConnell May Have Accidentally Saved Obamacare”: Law professor John Aloysius Cogan Jr. has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Elizabeth Warren Beats Covington Students’ Defamation Suit”: Peter Hayes of Bloomberg Law has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Court blocks Trump administration’s abortion referral restrictions in Maryland”: Ann E. Marimow has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

Sarah Rankin of The Associated Press reports that “Court blocks Trump administration abortion rules in Maryland.”

Alice Miranda Ollstein reports that “Federal court blocks Trump’s abortion ‘gag’ rule; The ruling applies just to Maryland, but it creates a split in the judiciary — the 9th Circuit previously allowed the funding restrictions to move forward.”

And Brandi Buchman of Courthouse News Service reports that “En Banc Fourth Circuits Blocks Abortion Gag Rule in Maryland.”

You can access yesterday’s 9-to-6 en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

“Court rejects Illinois GOP’s challenge to governor’s lockdown order; Two Trump appointees joined in a ruling that Gov. J.B. Pritzker was free to privilege religion over politics”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

And Maeve Allsup of Bloomberg Law reports that “Illinois Covid-19 Crowd Limits With Religious Exemption Upheld” (subscription required for full access).

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

“Our ‘Orphan’ Constitutional Right: The Roberts Court can’t duck the Second Amendment forever.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Kenosha Shooter’s Defense Is a Gun-Rights Fantasy; Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyers think a Second Amendment argument will win in the court of public opinion”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Longtime SC Judge Hamilton of US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals dies at 86”: John Monk of The State of Columbia, South Carolina has this report.

“Twelve State Court Judges President Trump May Elevate to the Court of Appeals in His Second Term”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”