“Key Defense Lawyers for Trump to Leave Sullivan & Cromwell for Rival Firm; Jeffrey Wall and Morgan Ratner, both leaders in the firm’s appellate and Supreme Court practice group, will join Gibson Dunn”: C. Ryan Barber and Erin Mulvaney of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Wall and Ratner’s deep knowledge of admiralty choice-of-law principles is proving to be quite marketable.

“Tax Code’s Home Distilling Ban Is Lawful, Appeals Court Says”: James Matheson 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 Sixth Circuit issued today.

“5th Circuit allows Texas to require Ten Commandments in classrooms; The ruling sets up a likely Supreme Court battle over whether the Texas law violates the constitutional separation of church and state”: Laura Meckler of The Washington Post has this report.

Louis Casiano of Fox News reports that “Federal court upholds Texas law requiring Ten Commandments in public classrooms; A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, ruling the mandate a constitutional.”

And Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg News reports that “Split Fifth Circuit OKs Texas Ten Commandments in Classroom Law.”

You can access today’s 9-to-8 en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Some Thoughts on John Eastman’s Disbarment”: Brad Wendel has this post at his Substack site, “Legal Ethics Stuff.”

“How to Deliberate on the Shadow Docket; Or, Are Critics Seeing Shadows?” Richard M Re has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

“The Shadow Docket Is John Roberts’ Disappointing Legacy”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.