“Comedian Mike Ward’s mockery of disabled singer not discriminatory, Supreme Court rules”: Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail has this report.

Paul Cherry of The Montreal Gazette reports that “Supreme Court rules in favour of comedian Mike Ward in Jérémy Gabriel case; The Montreal comedian’s lawyer, Julius Grey, argued the jokes were aimed at Gabriel as a celebrity and not because of his disabilities.”

Brian Platt of National Post reports that “Supreme court affirms free speech rights of Quebec comedian who mocked disabled boy; The court also reprimanded Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal for taking on discrimination cases based solely on expression.”

Amanda Coletta of The Washington Post has a report headlined “He mocked a disabled boy in a comedy bit. Canada’s Supreme Court found his words were ‘disgraceful’ but not discriminatory.”

Jim Bronskill and Sidhartha Banerjee of The Canadian Press have a report headlined “Comedian Mike Ward’s mockery of disabled singer not discriminatory: Supreme Court.”

Peter Zimonjic of CBC News reports that “Comedian who mocked disabled child singer did not breach limits of free speech: Supreme Court; Case pitted Quebec comedian Mike Ward against former child singer Jérémy Gabriel.”

You can access today’s 5-to-4 ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link.

“This Idaho native and Boise High graduate was just confirmed as U.S. solicitor general”: Kevin Fixler of The Idaho Statesman has this report.

In which attorney Jonathan F. Mitchell, credited as the devious mind behind Texas’s S.B. 8, presumably demonstrates that he knows how to correctly pronounce “Chick-fil-A”: Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Texas heard oral argument in Von Dohlen v. City of San Antonio.

In news coverage of the oral argument, Kirk McDaniel of Courthouse News Service reports that “San Antonio claims immunity from suit over Chick-fil-A rejection; In a case challenging San Antonio’s rejection of an airport Chick-fil-A restaurant, the highest court in Texas heard debate over a controversial state law allowing citizens to sue government entities for taking action against religious groups.”

And Paul Flahive of Texas Public Radio reports that “Texas Supreme Court hears oral arguments in San Antonio’s 2019 Chick-fil-A case.”

Mitchell will be one of the attorneys arguing the S.B. 8-related cases Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Not every deeply conservative #SCOTUS practitioner is an expert in pronouncing Chick-fil-A, as I noted in my post from March 27, 2014 titled “Paul D. Clement stakes out latest controversial position — how to pronounce the ‘A’ in Chick-fil-A.”

“It’s Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Now”: Emily Bazelon has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Texas SB8: A Cooperative Venture for Rapists and the State of Texas.” Law professor Sherry F. Colb has this essay online at Justia’s Verdict.

“Justice Thomas’ Contradictions: Of Decency, Empathy, and the Judicial Role.” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Prelogar to Make Solicitor General Debut in Texas Abortion Cases”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“The Supreme Court Can’t Fix America’s Gun Violence Crisis; In the hands of a conservative Supreme Court, the hard question of how to keep people safe is reduced to part academic debate, part arms race”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Oklahoma executes inmate who dies vomiting and convulsing”: Sean Murphy of The Associated Press has this report.

“For First Time in Public, a Detainee Describes Torture at C.I.A. Black Sites; In a sentencing hearing, Majid Khan, a Pakistani who lived in suburban Baltimore before joining Al Qaeda, detailed dungeonlike conditions and episodes of abuse”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.

“Conservatives Want the Texas Abortion Law Case to Be About Anything But Abortion; Activists have spent years trying to immunize anti-choice laws from judicial review; With a conservative Court supermajority in power, that goal is suddenly within reach”: Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“In battle at Supreme Court over N.Y. gun law, a surprising split among conservatives”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.