“Abandoning (Rather than Dismissing) Claims to Create Finality; The Eleventh Circuit held that claimants can create a final decision by ‘abandoning’ unresolved claims, which stands in some tension with that court’s rule that litigants cannot voluntarily dismiss discrete claims”: Bryan Lammon recently had this post at his “final decisions” blog.

And Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters had a related post titled “In this U.S. appeals court, ‘dismiss’ and ‘abandon’ are not synonyms.”

“Supreme Court Loses No Matter How It Rules on Gun Case”: Columnist Francis Wilkinson has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

And online at Slate, professor Saul Cornell has a Jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court Can Repair Clarence Thomas’ Greatest Folly.”

“Judges running in Pa’s Supreme Court race talk about judicial philosophies; The winner could end up casting a deciding vote on the future of reproductive rights in Pennsylvania”: Peter Hall of Pennsylvania Capital-Star has this report.

“Supreme Court to Hear Another Broad Challenge to Agency Power; The justices apparently added the new case to ensure that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson could take part in deciding whether to overrule a major precedent”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

You can access yesterday’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“Is Rule 4(a)(4)(B)(ii) Jurisdictional? I’m starting to think that a failure to file a second or amended notice of appeal does not affect appellate jurisdiction to review certain post-judgment decisions.” Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.

“Newman, Oldest US Judge, Feted Again in Non-Farewell Tour; Newman speech caps first day of intellectual property conference; Her colleagues stopped her from taking new cases”: Michael Shapiro of Bloomberg Law has this report.