“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.”

“Divided Sixth Circuit upholds death penalty in child murder case; Danny Hill claimed he is intellectually disabled, which makes him ineligible for capital punishment due to a 2002 landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court”: Joe Harris of Courthouse News Service has this report on a 9-to-7 en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued Friday.

“Go Ahead. Ignore That Email. The costs of maintaining an empty inbox far outweigh whatever satisfaction you might derive from it.” Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion in which he discusses, among other things, an opinion that Circuit Judge James C. Ho issued earlier this month on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

“Kavanaugh Is the Last Hope for Abortion Rights; Liberals have reviled the conservative Supreme Court justice since his confirmation hearing, but now hope that he still cherishes the reputation for moderation that he cultivated”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“First woman to take helm as RI state court administrator”: Katie Mulvaney of The Providence Journal has this report.

“More Transparency Urged for ‘Shadow Docket'”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

“The Fifth Circuit Made Me Do It: The latest national injunction.” Samuel Bray has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Supreme Court Grants Temporary Reprieve to Biden Immigration Policy; Justice Samuel Alito briefly stayed a ruling from a federal judge that would have forced some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while U.S. officials considered their cases”: Eileen Sullivan and Adam Liptak of The New York Times have this report.

“Prop. 22 is ruled unconstitutional, a major blow to California gig economy law”: Margot Roosevelt and Suhauna Hussain of The Los Angeles Times have a report that begins, “California’s giant ride-hailing and delivery companies suffered a major setback Friday as a state Superior Court judge invalidated a 2020 ballot proposition that allowed Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other businesses to classify their workers as independent contractors.”

Roland Li of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Prop. 22, the gig worker exemption for Uber and Lyft, is ruled unconstitutional.”

And Kate Conger of The New York Times reports that “California’s Gig Worker Law Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules; Last year, more than $200 million was spent on campaigning for a state proposition that ensured workers like Uber and Lyft drivers were considered independent contractors.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Alameda County, California Superior Court at this link.

“Biden’s Immigration Policies Face Fresh Judicial Setbacks; The Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block a ruling that reinstated a policy forcing some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while U.S. officials consider their cases”: Eileen Sullivan of The New York Times has this report.

And Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Block Reinstatement of ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy; Lower courts ordered Washington to revive Trump-era policy requiring asylum applicants to wait in Mexico until their claims were decided.”

“Real-Estate Interests Ask Supreme Court to Block Biden’s Eviction Moratorium; Moves comes hours after lower court rejected group’s challenge to ban”: Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

And The Wall Street Journal has posted online an editorial titled “Next at Bat: Justice Kavanaugh; Biden’s lawless eviction ban is heading back to the Supreme Court.”

“George Mason grants professor COVID vaccine mandate exemption after ‘natural immunity’ lawsuit”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Solving the Procedural Puzzles of Texas’ Fetal-Heartbeat Law”: Law professors Charles W. (Rocky) Rhodes and Howard Wasserman have posted this article at SSRN.

“Requesting Reconsideration of Precedent”: Robert S. Peck has this post at the “Appellate Advocacy Blog.”

“Text Statistics for 2021 Granted Cert Petitions”: Adam Feldman has this post at The Juris Lab.

“When the Supreme Court Couldn’t Stop a Lynching”: Peter Canellos has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Supreme Court won’t block work on Obama presidential center; A group that has long opposed construction on the site of a historic Chicago park asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block construction work”: Pete Williams of NBC News has this report.

“Texas ‘Latex Clubs’ Defeat Sexually-Oriented Business Fee”: Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Philly will appeal a court order prohibiting the removal of the Columbus statue in Marconi Plaza; The statue, which became a flashpoint during the protests following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, remains sealed in a wooden box”: Sean Collins Walsh of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“Republicans’ New Stance on COVID Contradicts Everything They’ve Said About Abortion; A Trump judge and a GOP governor push an incoherent theory of freedom that coddles COVID deniers and torments abortion patients”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Therein, Lithwick and Stern write, “Indeed, in his concurrence in the abortion case, Judge James Ho — one of the Trump-appointed judges most feverishly devoted to the principle that ‘owning the libs’ is a stand-alone constitutional value — wrote gratuitously about the ambiguities and impossibilities of judicial comprehension of scientific fact.”

“Experts: Supreme Court could clarify McGirt ruling, won’t overturn it.” Janelle Stecklein of The Enid (Okla.) News & Eagle has a report that begins, “It’s unlikely a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices would overturn their recent ruling that large swaths of eastern Oklahoma remain Native American reservations despite continued challenges and appeals to do so from state leaders, legal experts say.”

“Washington Supreme Court mandates COVID-19 vaccines for workers, encourages lower courts to do same”: Kip Hill of The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington has this report.

Yesterday, the Washington State Supreme Court issued this order.

“Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: The Mother Of All Spreadsheets; Here are all the judges, courts, and law schools that produced SCOTUS clerks over the past five years.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Justice Thomas has made the new oral argument format a winner”: Carrie Severino has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Born in Boise, raised in Idaho, this ‘prolific’ woman is Biden’s solicitor general pick”: Ian Max Stevenson of The Idaho Statesman has this report.

And the Spring 2002 issue of Emory Magazine contained an item titled “Rhodes Scholarship finalist Elizabeth M. Barchas ’02C.”

“Bostock and Textualism: A Response to Berman and Krishnamurthi.” Law professor Andrew Koppelman has posted this paper at SSRN.