“Founding-Era Common Law’s Relevance to Original Meaning”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“Kansas Supreme Court to return to in-person oral arguments in September”: The Supreme Court of Kansas issued this news release today.

“New Split on Fugitive-Disentitlement Appeals; The Second Circuit split with the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits in holding that fugitive-disentitlement orders are immediately appealable via the collateral-order doctrine”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog about a decision that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued last Thursday.

“Biden rushes to pick judges, but one major opening remains”: Pamela King of Greenwire has a report that begins, “More than six months into his term, President Biden has outstripped his predecessors on nominating judges, but one key vacancy on a powerful appeals court remains.”

“Dems’ unrelenting drive against Trump continues to do real harm to presidency, Constitution; Congress’s demands for documents and subpoenas could do lasting damage to the separation of powers”: John Eastman and law professor John Yoo have this essay online at Fox News.

“An Ohio judge ordered a man to get a Covid-19 vaccine as a condition of his probation”: Kay Jones and Amanda Watts of CNN have a report that begins, “An Ohio man says he will not get vaccinated despite a judge ordering him to get a Covid-19 vaccine shot as a condition of his probation.”

“In Skirt Case, Appeals Court Says Title IX Bars Dress Codes That Discriminate Based on Sex”: Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report (subscription may be required for full access) on a ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today.

Update: In other coverage, Matthew Barakat of The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court gives mixed ruling on N.C. school’s dress code.”

“Bayer Loses Third Appeal of Roundup Herbicide Cancer Verdict”: Joel Rosenblatt and Jef Feeley of Bloomberg News have this report on a ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of California’s First District Court of Appeal issued today.

The majority opinion affirms an award of punitive damages totaling nearly $70 million.

“White House Said to Vet Prelogar as Top Supreme Court Lawyer”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“A Trump Judge Just Gave Brett Kavanaugh a New Way to Overturn Roe v. Wade Without Admitting It”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“NYC’s vaccine mandate will test the authority of a 1905 Supreme Court case”: Alexis Keenan of Yahoo Finance has this report.

“Are Liberals to Blame for Our Crisis of Faith in Government? Progressives as well as conservatives have promoted suspicion of the establishment, but lack of trust is not the same as apathy.” Louis Menand has this “Books” essay in the August 16, 2021 issue of The New Yorker.