“Right-wing group fails to show Colorado Springs mayor violated its constitutional rights: Court.” Michael Karlik of The Gazette of Colorado Springs has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued today.

“Ninth Circuit sides with Sirius XM in dispute over pre-1972 music royalties; The court found that California’s ‘exclusive ownership’ statute never applied to public performance on radio”: Nate MacKay of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“How Do Religious Vaccine Exemptions Really Work? And how do you prevent people from abusing them?” Molly Olmstead has this essay online at Slate.

“Biden administration asks Supreme Court to save eviction moratorium”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“State files more petitions seeking high court reversal of McGirt”: Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has this report.

“Mask mandates violate religious liberty by hiding faces made in God’s image, Catholic school says”: Marisa Iati of The Washington Post had this article back in July 2021.

This afternoon, the majority on a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued this decision affirming the district court’s denial of the school’s motion for a preliminary injunction.

“Wisconsin prosecutors turn to U.S. Supreme Court in ongoing effort to keep Mark Jensen in prison for wife’s 1998 death”: Bruce Vielmetti of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report on a petition for writ of certiorari that the State of Wisconsin filed in the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month.

“Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Keep Eviction Ban”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

You can view today’s filing at this link.

“St. Paul officer center of Supreme Court petition seeking to remove immunity protections from federal and deputized officers”: Deanna Weniger of The Pioneer Press of St. Paul, Minnesota has this report.

“Justice Stephen Breyer Lives in a World of His Own; The brilliant jurist’s surprisingly (or not) weak case for the Supreme Court’s historic legitimacy”: In the September/October 2021 issue of Washington Monthly, law professor Garrett Epps has this review of Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s new book, “The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics.”

“Florida Judge Puts Ted Frank — and the Settlement He Objected to — Under A Microscope”: Amanda Bronstad of the Daily Business Review has this report.

In the August 30, 2021 issue of The New Yorker: Evan Osnos has an “American Chronicles” article headlined “Life After White-Collar Crime: Every week, fallen executives come together, seeking sympathy and a second act.”

And Zach Helfand has a “The Sporting Scene” article headlined “Invasion of the Robot Umpires: The minor leagues have been testing the Automated Ball-Strike System; But isn’t yelling and screaming about bad calls half the fun of baseball?“

“Where We Stand: Assessing Vacancies and Nominations in the Federal Judiciary — The Atlantic Coast.” Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“Hale: I regret that brooch; But most contributors to new book say court was not trying to trap PM in its web.” Joshua Rozenberg has this post at his “A Lawyer Writes” Substack site.

“Why is the US right suddenly interested in Native American adoption law? A 1978 law tried to remedy adoption practices created to forcibly assimilate Native children; Now conservative lawyers are arguing that the law constitutes ‘reverse racism.'” Nick Estes has this essay online at The Guardian (UK).

Season two of the “This Land” podcast, hosted by Rebecca Nagle, debuts today, describing itself as “a timely exposé about how the far right is using Native children to quietly dismantle American Indian tribes and advance a conservative agenda.”

“What do shareholders have to lose in new SCOTUS securities class action showdown?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

And last Wednesday, Frankel had a post titled “9th Circuit scraps Tinder age discrimination class settlement. Was it a ‘sweetheart deal’?” about a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued last Tuesday.

“A New Test Or Merely A New Name For Some Regulatory Takings?” Retired D.C. Circuit Judge Thomas Griffith has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

“Noah Feldman Indulges in Brett Kavanaugh Fan Fiction on Dobbs”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”