“Abortion pill case sends high court on a hunt for harm; The high court has been asked to determine if doctors who do not prescribe abortion pills can be hurt by their side effects”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report, along with an article headlined “Abortion pill dispute puts Supreme Court at the center of fight over evidence-based medicine; Medical experts have flocked to the high court to denounce claims that the abortion pill is unsafe.”
“Illinois federal judges rescind diversity policies after conservatives complain”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.
“Civil Rights Appeal Dismissed for Citing ‘Fabricated Cases’”: Peter Hayes of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.
“U.S. Chamber, critic of forum shopping, questioned for doing just that”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.
“Virgin Islands Bankruptcy Court Survives Challenge to Authority; Court doesn’t reach merits of Bankruptcy Court’s authority; Concurring judges urge court to consider issue in the future”: Peter Hayes of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a non-precedential decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today.
“The Supreme Court Is Playing a Dangerous Game”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times.
“Biden Court Pick Adeel Mangi Refutes ‘Shocking And False’ Attacks On Him; In a new letter obtained by HuffPost, the historic Muslim nominee rejects Republican claims that he is somehow anti-law enforcement”: Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost has this report. And you can view the letter at this link.
“Democrats’ Abandonment of Adeel Mangi Is Cynical and Embarrassing; Republicans gambled that a few well-placed Islamophobic smears would imperil the nomination of a Muslim American lawyer to a federal judgeship; They were right”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.
“The Outsider Legal Genius Who May Rescue Trump: Seth Barrett Tillman is an Orthodox Jewish commodities trader turned law professor living in Dublin whose ideas were recently heard by the Supreme Court; He’s also something even more unusual: a thinker whose mind hasn’t been corrupted by politics.” Armin Rosen of Tablet Magazine has this report.
“Clerking For Judge Aileen Cannon: A Behind-The-Scenes Look; A tale of two clerkships: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
“In conclusion, this Court holds that [18 Pa.C.S.] Section 6321(g) does not require exposure of the nipple in order to meet the definition of nudity. Nudity is sufficiently established where any area below the top of the nipple is visible.” So ruled a unanimous Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in a decision issued yesterday.
“Judge Dodging: Apple loses Mandamus Transfer Action This Time.” Dennis Crouch has this post at his “Patently-O” blog.
“Could the Supreme Court Blindside the FDA on the First Amendment?” James M. Beck has this post at his “Drug & Device Law” blog.
“Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom, and May Again Threaten It.” Law professors Reva Siegel and Mary Ziegler have posted this article at SSRN.
“Timeliness in Supreme Court Practice”: Dennis Crouch recently had this post at his “Patently-O” blog.
“Biden’s controversial judicial nominee twists in the wind”: Columnist Debra J. Saunders has this essay online at The Las Vegas Review-Journal.
