“State representative calls for impeachment of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Wecht”: Paula Reed Ward of The Tribune-Review of Greensburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

“North Dakota Supreme Court justice back home after battle with COVID-19; Gerald VandeWalle stayed busy when he was well enough to carry on with his official duties; He even verbally dictated a dissenting opinion from his hospital bed in a high-profile case involving a now-barred Democratic candidate for insurance commissioner”: Jeremy Turley of The Forum of Fargo, North Dakota has this report.

“Bigoted Attacks on Amy Coney Barrett Will Backfire; When I ran for a court seat, opponents portrayed my Christian faith as hateful; The voters didn’t buy it”: Justice Brian Hagedorn of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Delaware senator says he won’t question Supreme Court pick on her religion”: Sarah Gamard of The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware has this report.

“Federal appeals court says Texas doesn’t have to give geriatric inmates hand sanitizer for now; The order temporarily blocks a lower court’s ruling that would have gone into effect Oct. 14 and forced Texas to provide more protective measures against the coronavirus at a geriatric prison”: Jolie McCullough of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“Appeals Court Opens Across The Street From Regular Court To Drum Up Business”: The Onion has this News in Brief.

“Supreme Court struggles over broad jurisdictional rule in Ford crash cases”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Democrats hold talks with Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court nominee preps for hearing; At least eight Democrats have talked with President Trump’s nominee”: Marisa Schultz of Fox News has this report.

“Notre Dame’s President Faces an Angry Campus After Getting the Coronavirus; Students and faculty are furious that the Rev. John I. Jenkins failed to wear a mask at a White House ceremony and then later tested positive for the virus”: Kathleen Gray and Shawn Hubler of The New York Times have this report.

“A Tale of Two American Heroes and the Absurdity of Life Tenure for SCOTUS Justices”: Eric Segall has this post at the “Dorf on Law” blog.

“Where can auto accident victims sue the manufacturer? Supreme Court is conflicted.” Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

And Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal reports that “In Ford’s Forum Fight, Justices Focus on How to Apply a 1945 Test Today; The final arguments of the week engaged in a rapid ping-pong of hypotheticals as the justices sorted through proposed jurisdiction tests offered by the parties.”

“White House coronavirus outbreak may have exposed thousands from Atlanta to Minnesota”: Josh Salman and Dinah Voyles Pulver of USA Today have this report.

According to the article, “At least 6,000 people attended meetings, rallies and other gatherings with them within a week of the Sept. 26 Supreme Court nomination ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, now pegged as a potential ‘superspreader’ event.”

“Ford Faces Stiff Headwinds at High Court Jurisdiction Clash”: Martina Barash of Bloomberg Law has this report.

You can access via this link the audio and transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, No. 19-368.

“Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation schedule: A timeline; Hearings will start Oct. 12.” Tyler Olson of Fox News has this report.

“A Comprehensive Look at Judge Amy Coney Barrett”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Amy Coney Barrett is brilliant; her ascent to the Supreme Court is not”: Albert Hunt has this essay online at The Hill.

“U.S. Supreme Court rejects petition challenging Indiana’s Right to Farm law”: Sarah Bowman of The Indianapolis Star has this report.

“CNN Poll: Americans are divided over Amy Coney Barrett.” Grace Sparks of CNN has this report.

“Trump declares court ruling on Whitmer’s emergency powers a ‘BIG win'”: Melissa Nann Burke of The Detroit News has this report.

“VA Rules Fight Heads for Full Federal Circuit in Remote Argument”: Perry Cooper of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Amy Coney Barrett served as a ‘handmaid’ in Christian group People of Praise”: Emma Brown, Jon Swaine, and Michelle Boorstein have this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“For the Supreme Court, 8 Justices Would be Better than 9; An even-numbered court would probably be more functional and less divided”: Anthony Marcum and James Wallner have this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“The Supreme Court just gave us a window into how it will handle this election; The fate of American democracy could rest with Brett Kavanaugh”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

And online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Three Supreme Court Justices Just Showed They’re Willing to Throw Out Mail-In Ballots.”

“On campaign trail, vulnerable GOP senators play down a more conservative Supreme Court; The GOP candidates are minimizing the impact of a Justice Amy Coney Barrett”: Kendall Karson of ABC News has this report.

“Florida ruled felons must pay to vote. Now, it doesn’t know how many can. Florida’s Amendment 4 was supposed to restore the vote to up to 1.4 million felons. Instead, it might be America’s biggest case of voter disenfranchisement.” Lawrence Mower and Langston Taylor of The Tampa Bay Times have this report.

And online at Slate, Leah C. Aden has a jurisprudence essay titled “The Courts Have Blessed a Modern-Day Jelly Bean Test in Florida.”

“What Thomas and Alito get wrong in their grumbling about same-sex marriage”: Columnist David Von Drehle has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Newsom pick for California high court talks about coming out: ‘My journey was different.'” Maura Dolan has this article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“Manhattan D.A. Can Obtain Trump’s Tax Returns, Judges Rule; The dispute will now likely head to the Supreme Court for a second time”: Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum of The New York Times have this report.

Shayna Jacobs of The Washington Post reports that “Manhattan prosecutor can enforce subpoena for Trump’s tax returns, appeals court says.”

Deanna Paul of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Trump Tax Returns Can Be Accessed by New York Prosecutors, Court Rules; State can enforce a subpoena seeking years of financial documents, a decision the president is expected to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Larry Neumeister of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Appeals court: Trump must turn over taxes to prosecutor.”

Bob Van Voris and Chris Dolmetsch of Bloomberg News report that “Trump Loses Effort in Appeals Court to Block Vance Subpoena.”

Pete Williams and Tom Winter of NBC News report that “Trump loses on tax subpoena, another legal setback; The president’s lawyers will now likely ask the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved.”

And Kara Scannell of CNN reports that “Federal appeals court rules Trump can’t block New York subpoena for his tax returns.”

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

“Canada’s Supreme Court to consider whether Native Americans in U.S. have rights north of the border”: Amanda Coletta of The Washington Post has this report.

“Supreme Court hears Arkansas law on Rx benefits; At issue: Rein on insurance, pharmacies middlemen.” Frank E. Lockwood of The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has this report.

“Google, Oracle square off on landmark copyright case at the Supreme Court; Oracle argues that Google violated copyright laws when it developed its Android mobile operating system in a case that could have wide ramifications for the software industry”: Jay Greene of The Washington Post has this report.

Jan Wolfe of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court to mull Google bid to end Oracle copyright suit.”

Brian Fung of CNN Business has a report headlined “Google and Oracle are squaring off in the Supreme Court. Here’s what’s at stake.”

Timothy B. Lee of Ars Technica has a report headlined “The Supreme Court hears Oracle v. Google — here’s what’s at stake; The Supreme Court could decide whether APIs can be copyrighted.”

And on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Shannon Bond had an audio segment titled “Google And Oracle’s Decade-Long Copyright Battle Reaches Supreme Court.”

“Supreme Court will hear Georgia-Florida water rights case this term; States have been fighting over water for three decades”: Tamar Hallerman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

“Supreme Court opens politically charged term with major business cases involving Google, Oracle and Ford”: Tucker Higgins of CNBC has this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark same-sex marriage ruling safe for now, observers say, but could be narrowed”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

“What a 6–3 Supreme Court Could Do: Michigan is a preview of how far Republican judges will go to obstruct Democrats in office.” Law professor Nicholas Bagley has this essay online at The Atlantic.