“Judicial Notice (04.23.22): No Joke; A significant free-speech ruling, a massive malpractice lawsuit, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“The Hazard-Filled Ruling on the Transportation Mask Mandate; The judicial order, which inspired social-media videos of people gleefully unmasking on airplanes, was sudden and startlingly broad”: Amy Davidson Sorkin has this Daily Comment online at The New Yorker.

“High-School Football Coach Takes Case for Prayer to Supreme Court; If successful, the case could help reset the line between church and state”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Coach’s Prayers Prompt Supreme Court Test of Religious Freedom; Joseph Kennedy, a football coach at a public high school in Washington State, lost his job after praying on the 50-yard line after games”: Adam Liptak has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“The mask mandate decision shows how Trump reshaped the judiciary; A 35-year-old judge takes anti-regulatory logic to a new level”: Law professor Leah Litman — whose own age, according to online sources, might not be all that far from 35 — has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Metropolitan Police: Boulder man dies after setting himself on fire in Washington, D.C.” Kelsey Hammon of The Longmont (Colo.) Times-Call has this report.

“Argument By Slogan”: Online at the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, law professors Conor Casey and Adrian Vermeule have this essay responding to Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr.‘s recent critique of common good constitutionalism.

“Ten Questions for Adrian Vermeule or How Scary is Common Good Constitutionalism?” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“The Unrecognized Vitality of State Constitutionalism: How do the state constitutions differ from one another and from the U.S. Constitution?” At the “Law & Liberty” blog, James R. Rogers has this review of Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton‘s newest book, “Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation.”

“Clarence Thomas’ Jurisprudence Is Only Getting More Chaotic; The justice’s attack on a landmark school desegregation case is the latest illustration of his erratic extremism”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.