“Trump administration appeals ruling in Harvard research funding case; A district judge’s ruling had restored funding to the university”: Susan Svrluga of The Washington Post has this report.

“Justice Dept. Will Appeal Dismissal of Comey and James Indictments; The Trump administration had vowed to fight a judge’s decision to dismiss unrelated criminal charges against James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, the attorney general of New York”: Devlin Barrett and Jonah E. Bromwich of The New York Times have this report.

Kyle Cheney of Politico reports that “DOJ appeals ruling that tanked Comey, James criminal cases; The Justice Department is challenging the dismissal of prosecutor Lindsey Halligan.”

And Chris Strohm of Bloomberg News reports that “Justice Department Appeals Dismissal of James, Comey Indictments.”

“Ho, Oldham Battle Over ‘Gymnastics’ in Fifth Circuit Opinions”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Courthouse News Service have this report.

You can access here and here the recent orders of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denying rehearing en banc and the opinions accompanying those orders.

“DC Circuit likely to reject Peter Navarro’s contempt appeal on broad executive privilege theory; The Justice Department declined to defend the conviction on Thursday, simply stating its position had changed from the Biden administration”: Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“SCOTUSblog Falls Into the MAGA Orbit”: Jonathan Zasloff recently had this post at the “LegalPlanet” blog.

“Amul Thapar Desperately Wants to Be a Trump Supreme Court Justice; How do ambitious appeals court judges get the White House to notice them? Invent a new legal theory that just so happens to align with Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.” Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Non-Cake Physical Object”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.

“Man Late on Child Support Wrongly Convicted on Firearm Charge”: Quinn Wilson of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued Wednesday.