“About Single-Judge Divisions”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Judicial Notice (02.04.23): The Chief; Ethics allegations against Chief Justice Roberts, another big win for Alex Spiro, Jones Day ditches the Donald, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Don’t Let Republican ‘Judge Shoppers’ Thwart the Will of Voters”: Law professor Stephen I. Vladeck has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Supreme Court justices used personal emails for work and ‘burn bags’ were left open in hallways, sources say”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“The Supreme Court Considers the Algorithm; A very weird Section 230 case is headed to the country’s highest court”: Kaitlyn Tiffany of The Atlantic has this report.

“North Carolina Supreme Court Grants Rehearing in Case Striking Down Congressional Districts as a Partisan Gerrymander, Potentially Mooting U.S. Supreme Court’s Independent State Legislature Case, Moore v. Harper”: Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

And in local coverage, Avi Bajpai of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina reports that “NC Supreme Court agrees to rehear voter ID, gerrymandering cases after majority flips.”

“Insurers Avoid Picking Up Businesses’ Covid-19 Pandemic Costs; Policyholders have been trying to collect on policies for ‘business interruption,’ but courts have so far sided with insurers that argue the policies are triggered by physical damage to property, not the presence of virus”: Richard Vanderford of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“The Supreme Court Spouses Cannot Stop Stomping On Ethical Rakes; Jane Roberts’s lengthy and lucrative legal recruiting career is the focus of new allegations about the Supreme Court’s unaddressed conflicts of interest”: Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“The Supreme Court of the United States will honor the memory of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday, March 17, with a meeting of the Supreme Court’s Bar, followed by a special sitting of the Court.” So beings a news release that the Public Information Office of the U.S. Supreme Court issued yesterday.

“The U.S. Must Resolve the Cases of the Guantanamo Detainees; If the 9/11 defendants were to plead guilty and accept a life sentence, justice will almost have been served”: Theodore B. Olson has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Veterans Suing Over 3M Earplugs Want Bankruptcy Case Tossed; Plaintiffs say ruling on Johnson & Johnson talc case supports their opposition to 3M’s plan for settling claims”: Bob Tita of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“The Looting of Johnson & Johnson; The company loses in court because it was too generous to claimants”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“David vs Goliath: How Corporate Interests Dominate Civil Appellate Litigation & What We Can Do About It; A gap in access to expert appellate legal representation has enabled wealthy corporations to shape the legal landscape to their benefit; Plaintiff-side appellate litigators are trying to change that.” Simone Unwalla has this post at The [F]law.

“3M foes act fast to capitalize on J&J’s talc bankruptcy defeat”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

“Domestic Abusers Have Gun Rights Too, US Appeals Court Rules; Court vacates conviction of Texas man tied to five shootings; Ruling is latest fallout from US Supreme Court landmark ruling”: Erik Larson of Bloomberg News has this report.

Tierney Sneed of CNN reports that “Law barring people with domestic violence restraining orders from having guns is unconstitutional, court rules.”

Zach Schonfeld of The Hill reports that “Appeals court strikes down gun ban for people with domestic violence restraining orders.”

Kaelan Deese of the Washington Examiner reports that “Law barring domestic violence offenders from possessing guns unconstitutional, court rules.”

Bronson Winslow of the Daily Caller reports that “Federal Court Strikes Down Decades-Old Gun Law Targeting Domestic Violence.”

In commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “5th Circuit Rules That People Accused of Domestic Violence Have a Right to Keep Their Guns.”

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “It’s now legal for domestic abusers to own a gun in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi; We’re starting to see the fallout from the Supreme Court’s most recent Second Amendment decision.”

You can access today’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Federal judges’ retirements increasingly politically timed, study finds”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“Big Law’s Cancel Culture, and Other Obviously Fake Things That Do Not Exist; Recasting America’s richest law firms as victims of woke culture obscures the real-world impact of the work these firms do all day, every day, six minutes at a time”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“U.S. Senate panel holds first votes on Biden judicial picks of 2023”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

And Madison Alder and Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law report that “Biden Judicial Picks Deadlock as Judiciary Panel Members in Flux.”

“Introducing Confirmation Tales: ‘Not after I’ve driven all this way!'” Ed Whelan has launched a new Substack site, “Confirmation Tales.”

“The Old Hand Problem”: Law professor Xiao Wang has this article in the current issue of the Minnesota Law Review.

The article’s abstract begins, “Senior status is a special form of retirement for federal judges.”

“How expensive is Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner’s impeachment?” Dennis Owens and Madison Montag of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s WHTM ABC 27 have this report. According to the article, “The right-to-know request shows the House GOP has spent more than $1 million so far, most of it to law firm K&L Gates.”

In related news, this should be an exciting year for the Third Circuit Bar Association (new website now live), whose board I am proudly a member of. The organization’s new president is a partner in the appellate group at K&L Gates, while the president-elect works as supervisor of the Federal Litigation Unit at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Our first remote board meeting of the new year is today.

“Talking ’bout my generation”: Melissa Murray recently had this guest post at the “Balkinization” blog.

“The House Can Help Find the Supreme Court Leaker; The marshal doesn’t have subpoena power, but the Judiciary Committee does”: Alan M. Dershowitz will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Tom Girardi, disgraced L.A. lawyer and ‘Real Housewives’ spouse, indicted on fraud charges”: Matt Hamilton and Harriet Ryan of The Los Angeles Times have this report.

“How ideological foes united on ideas for amending the Constitution”: Jeffrey Rosen and Sal Khan have this essay online at The Washington Post.

“John Eastman’s Long, Ignominious Legal Career Might Be Coming to an End; It turns out there could be consequences for plotting to illegally overturn a presidential election”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Text, History, and Tradition in the 2021-2022 Term: A Response to Professors Barnett and Solum.” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Wasn’t Always Like John Roberts; The story of Abe Fortas’ quick axing from the high court reminds us of a time when there was actually something to be done about ethical concerns”: Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.