“60 Iowa lawmakers ask court to overturn 2018 abortion ruling”: David Pitt of The Associated Press has this report.

“Texas abortion providers halt most abortions as six-week ban takes effect”: Madlin Mekelburg of The Austin American-Statesman has this report.

“What The Texas Abortion Ban Does — And What It Means For Other States”: Sarah McCammon had this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“As Abortion Deadline Neared, 27 Patients Huddled in Texas Clinic”: Laurel Brubaker Calkins of Bloomberg News has this report.

“There Are Two Real Ways to Answer the Texas Abortion Law; Neither is easy”: Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Message Received”: You can access today’s new installment of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast — featuring law professors Melissa Murray, Kate Shaw, and Leah Litman, and their guest Steve Vladeck — via this link.

“Jeffrey Epstein accuser asks Supreme Court to uphold victims’ rights; Courtney Wild says prosecutors violated her rights in cutting what critics have called a sweetheart deal with the since-deceased financier”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

And James Hill of ABC News reports that “Epstein victim seeks US Supreme Court review of prosecutors’ secret deal; Courtney Wild says the ‘sweetheart deal’ violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.”

“What the Supreme Court’s inaction means for the future of Roe v. Wade”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“In the shadows: Why the Supreme Court’s lack of transparency may cost it in the long run.” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“Texans Now Have A Lucrative Incentive To Sue Abortion Providers; Abortion providers said they were complying with Texas’s 6-week abortion ban once it took effect Wednesday, citing the risk of an endless stream of civil claims”: Zoe Tillman and Paul McLeod of BuzzFeed News have this report.

“Abortion Largely Shuts Down in Texas Amid Supreme Court Silence”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Supreme indifference: What the Texas case signals about the court’s treatment of abortion.” Mary Ziegler has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Of Course This Supreme Court Ended Roe v. Wade By Doing Nothing; The conservative justices excel at overturning precedent without admitting it; This time, they didn’t have to say a word”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Supreme Court Roundup 2020-21”: The “Law & Liberty” blog has posted this podcast featuring law professor John O. McGinnis.

“Is This How Roe v. Wade Dies?” Lauren Kelley has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Statement by President Joe Biden on Texas Law SB8”: The White House issued this statement today.

“Ninth Circuit Judge Carlos Bea Despicably Agrees to Be Honored by John Eastman’s Claremont Institute, at Event with Orwellian Panel on ‘Election Integrity'”: Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

“Dissents in Denial of En Banc Reviews Fuel Concerns Judges Are Airing Partisan ‘Dirty Laundry'”: Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Appeals Court Revives Madoff Lawsuits Alleging Banks Knew ‘Suspicious Facts’; An appellate court said the trustee cleaning up after Madoff’s Ponzi scheme need only show that banks and other investors knew of ‘suspicious facts’ to maintain lawsuits against them”: Alexander Gladstone of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that “Recovery for Bernard Madoff customers bolstered by Citigroup ruling, trustee’s lawyer says.”

And Bob Van Voris of Bloomberg News reports that “Madoff Victims Get Second Crack at Citigroup’s $343 Million.”

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

“Is it time for the class action plaintiffs bar to skirt the 1st Circuit?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post discussing a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued Tuesday.

“The Legal Minds Who Tried to Overturn the Election for Trump Are Being Welcomed Back Into Polite Society”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen — creator of the “Election Law Blog” — has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“A 6-Week Abortion Ban Took Effect In Texas After The Supreme Court Didn’t Take Immediate Action To Stop It; The law, which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and empowers private citizens to sue to enforce it, went into effect Wednesday in a monumental shift on abortion rights”: Zoe Tillman and Nicole Fallert of BuzzFeed News have this report.

“Court temporarily blocks lawsuits by anti-abortion group under new Texas law; The temporary restraining order comes one day before the so-called fetal heartbeat abortion law is to take effect”: John C. Moritz of The Corpus Christi Caller Times has an article that begins, “A judge in Austin on Tuesday temporarily blocked an anti-abortion organization from filing a lawsuit to against several parties that might be involved in terminating a pregnancy.”

“Texas’ Near-Ban on Abortions Takes Effect After Supreme Court Fails to Act; The court is still expected to rule soon on an emergency application from abortion providers seeking to block the measure, which is now the most restrictive abortion law in the nation”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post report that “Texas’s six-week abortion ban takes effect, after Supreme Court doesn’t act to block it.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Texas’ six-week abortion ban takes effect as Supreme Court stays mum on appeal.”

And Brent Kendall, Jess Bravin, and Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal report that “Texas Abortion Law Takes Effect Pending Supreme Court Action; Justices haven’t acted on request by abortion providers to block the state’s so-called fetal-heartbeat law.”