“11th Circuit revives lawsuits accusing Chiquita of funding Colombian terrorists; The panel decided that the Florida judge who dismissed the families’ claims had ‘no basis’ to doubt the credibility of investigations conducted by Colombian officials”: Kayla Goggin of Courthouse News Service has this report on a 104-page opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“U.S. appeals court upholds Washington state’s conversion therapy ban”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.

Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law reports that “Washington LGBTQ Conversion Therapy Ban Upheld by Ninth Circuit.”

And Edvard Pettersson of Courthouse News Service reports that “Ninth Circuit upholds Washington ban on conversion therapy; The panel rejected arguments that a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held states can’t force pregnancy centers to inform patients about free abortion services applied here.”

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

“Top aide to U.S. Supreme Court’s Roberts to retire”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

Today, the Public Information Office of the U.S. Supreme Court issued a news release titled “Counselor to the Chief Justice Jeffrey P. Minear Retirement Announcement.”

“How the scourge of originalism is taking over the Supreme Court”: Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“Even the Founders Didn’t Believe in Originalism; To follow the Framers’ ideas about the Constitution means abandoning their understanding of it”: Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Chemerinsky’s forthcoming book is titled “Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism.”

“The Solution to the Trump Judge Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Alito’s financial disclosure shows teaching income, speaking engagements, and stock ownership”: Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“How the Supreme Court is already influencing the November midterm elections; From rulings on voting restrictions approved after the 2020 election to rethinking the Voting Rights Act, federal courts are having a big impact on voting”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.

“Resigning 5th Circuit Judge Costa set to join Gibson Dunn”: Nate Raymond and David Thomas of Reuters have this report.

“Debunking the Independent State Legislature Fantasy”: You can access this week’s episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

“The New Supreme Court Case That Could Make Civil Rights Laws Optional; The conservative legal movement’s latest argument: Discrimination isn’t illegal if it’s art.” Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Is a Fetus a Person? The Next Big Abortion Fight Centers on Fetal Rights.” Kelsey Butler and Patricia Hurtado of Bloomberg News have this report.

“‘They’re getting killed among women’: Skeptical female voters stand in way of GOP Senate; Republicans’ chances of retaking the Senate majority are diminishing thanks to abortion.” Natalie Allison of Politico has this report.

“Justice William O. Douglas, an Early Activist of the Environmental Movement; A compelling new book by a Ninth Circuit judge focuses on the conservation advocacy of Douglas and his high public profile, unlike any other”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog” about Ninth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown‘s new book, “Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas — Public Advocate and Conservation Champion.”

“Major Problems with Major Questions; Invoking the major questions doctrine is the wrong way to enforce nondelegation concerns”: Chad Squitieri has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.