“Newsom’s two appointees to California Supreme Court win approval, making history”: Kevin Rector of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Oakland civil rights attorney confirmed to California Supreme Court, becoming its second LGBT justice.”

“Abortion ruling author Alito gets standing ovation at conservative legal gala; Four of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority received a warm reception at the Federalist Society event”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Federal Judge David Stras Reflects on the Holocaust and First Amendment at Harvard Law School Talk”: Leah J. Lourenco, Jasmine Palma, and Linda Zhang of The Harvard Crimson have this report.

“Millions Poured into State High Court Races Gain Parties Little”: Alex Ebert and Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“‘A Moment of Truth for the Federalist Society’: Politics or Principle? The conservative lawyers’ group killed its white whale. Now it must cope with its internal contradictions.” Peter S. Canellos has this article online at Politico Magazine.

“Counsel chose to attend a ballgame instead of timely filing his client’s response to the motion to dismiss.” So explained an unpublished per curiam opinion that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.

Earlier, the opinion explains that it wasn’t just any ballgame: “counsel moved for a 14-day continuance in order to watch his son make his minor league baseball debut in Illinois.”

The Ninth Circuit, however, was not impressed — affirming the dismissal of the client’s suit due to the attorney’s failure to file a timely response to the defendants’ motion to dismiss after the requested extension was denied. Unfortunately, the opinion does not name the attorney who opted to attend his son’s minor league baseball debut, making it difficult to determine whether the debut was itself especially memorable.

“The Supreme Court lost Republicans the midterms; A leading Democratic data analyst explains what happened in 2022 — and why abortion proved to be the decisive issue”: Zack Beauchamp of Vox has this report.

“Conservative U.S. judge mocks Federalist Society’s critics at annual convention”: Jacqueline Thomsen and Nate Raymond of Reuters have this report.

Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal reports that “Judge William Pryor Mocks Federalist Society Critics; Pryor’s comments during FedSoc’s annual convention made fun of a sitting senator, a law professor and the media.”

And at “Above the Law,” Joe Patrice has a post titled “Federal Judge Weeps For Poor Defenseless Federalist Society, Ruthlessly Bullied By Legal Bloggers.”

The Federalist Society has posted on YouTube a video of the remarks under the title “Opening Address + Showcase Panel I: The Legal Profession and Constitutional Culture [NLC 2022].”