“Justice O’Connor’s Judicial Legacy Was Undermined by Court’s Rightward Shift; Since her retirement in 2006, the court has dismantled her key rulings on abortion, affirmative action and campaign finance”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this Supreme Court Memo.

“Title IX and the Assault on Hillsdale College; The school gets no federal money, but a lawsuit seeks to rope it in because it’s a tax-exempt nonprofit”: Tunku Varadarajan will have this op-ed in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

On January 25, 2024, I will be arguing on behalf of the plaintiffs-appellees the Fourth Circuit appeal mentioned in the op-ed.

“Parsing Invalidating Statutes (Part II)”: John F. Coyle has this post at the “Transnational Litigation Blog.”

The post begins, “In a prior post, I argued that the precise language used in state statutes purporting to invalidate choice-of-law clauses and forum selection clauses can have outsized effects in litigation. In this post, I continue this discussion by highlighting several statutes that purport to invalidate choice-of-law clauses in insurance contracts.”

“Trump doesn’t have presidential immunity from lawsuits over January 6, appeals court rules”: Katelyn Polantz of CNN has this report on a decision that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today in a case argued December 7, 2022.

“Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 93; During a crucial period in American law — when abortion, affirmative action, sex discrimination and voting rights were on the docket — she was the most powerful woman in the country”: Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times has written this obituary.