Ohio Supreme Court overturns order requiring man convicted of failing to pay child support to the mothers of his 11 children to “make all reasonable efforts to avoid impregnating a woman” while on probation: You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Ohio at this link.
Update: In news coverage, Jeff D. Gorman of Courthouse News Service reports that “Ohio Supreme Court Rules Man Can’t Be Ordered to Abstain From Procreation.”
“Divided Ohio Supreme Court kicks out groups’ suit on ‘bump stocks'”: Bill Bush of The Columbus Dispatch has this report on a 4-to-3 ruling that the Supreme Court of Ohio issued today.
“Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide if police violated George Burch’s cellphone privacy in Nicole VanderHeyden murder case”: Doug Schneider and Mark Treinen of The Green Bay Press-Gazette have this report.
“Colorado Supreme Court approves new rules for suppressing criminal cases from the public; Judges will be required to hold hearings and issue written orders before keeping cases from public view”: David Migoya of The Denver Post has an article that begins, “The Colorado Supreme Court on Thursday voted to approve rules for how criminal trial judges can restrict public access to court records, a direct response to Denver Post stories that exposed how thousands of cases have been kept from public view with little to no oversight for how that was done.”
“Son wins lawsuit after mom throws away his best porno mags”: John Agar of MLive has this article discussing a case pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan that could end up on appeal to the Sixth Circuit next year.
And in other coverage, Audra Gamble of The Holland (Mich.) Sentinel has an article headlined “Judge: Parents must pay son back after purging porn ‘trove.’“
“After siding with liberals in election cases, conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Hagedorn finds himself in ‘Twilight Zone'”: Bill Glauber of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.
“Biden’s Court Problem: He may find a judicial branch more skeptical of regulatory power than under Obama.” Columnist Kimberley A. Strassel has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Mitch McConnell Is Cranking Out Lame-Duck Judges; His move to keep seating Trump’s appointees breaks a 125-year precedent”: Dahlia Lithwick and law professor Tobias Barrington Wolff have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
Access today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in an argued case: The Court issued a per curiam decision in Trump v. New York, No. 20-366. And Justice Stephen G. Breyer issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.
“If Trump pardons himself, Biden should un-pardon him”: Ken Gormley has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Trump’s judicial legacy will block Biden’s”: Sam Baker of Axios has this post.