“Boeing Investors Get 737 Max Crash Litigation Revived on Appeal”: Mike Leonard of Bloomberg Law has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued Friday.

“We hold that the district court erred in sealing and ordering redaction of voluminous documents without a proper legal basis.” So ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday in the case captioned June Med. Servs. v. Phillips.

“U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling a setback for pre-trial bail bond reform in Dallas County”: Bret Jaspers of KERA News of Dallas has this report on a ruling that a divided en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued Friday.

“Omicron Makes Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Obsolete; There is no evidence so far that vaccines are reducing infections from the fast-spreading variant”: Luc Montagnier and Jed Rubenfeld have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Answering Schumer on the Filibuster: Democrats should have taken our advice not to break the 60-vote rule for judicial nominees in 2013.” This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The Native American Victims of McGirt: ‘There is no protection for me—or anyone like me,’ one woman says.” This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Sloppy Arguments Over COVID Mandates at SCOTUS: The caliber of questioning by the justices was not up to the usual standards, but the justices seemed to understand the two rules at issue present different questions.” Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Judicial Notice (01.08.22): Wax On, Wax Off; A controversial professor mouths off (again), Biglaw behemoths battle in court, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Justice Roberts minimizes U.S. Supreme Court’s legitimacy crisis”: Hassan Kanu has this essay online at Reuters.

“Where was Justice Neil Gorsuch’s mask?” Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Supreme Court’s conservative majority may be flexing its muscles”: Jeffrey Toobin has this essay online at CNN.

“Vaccine Mandates Have a Bad Day at the Supreme Court: The tenor of the conservative Justices’ questions suggested that the OSHA mandate, which would apply to about eighty million people, has little chance of going into effect in its present form.” Amy Davidson Sorkin has this post online at The New Yorker.