“Amazon Product Defect Liability Question Sent to Minnesota Court”: Shweta Watwe of Bloomberg Law has a report (subscription required for full access) that begins, “A federal appeals court asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to answer whether an e-commerce company that allows third-parties to sell defective products through its platform should be liable for the harm in a dispute over a battery sold through Amazon.com Inc.”

You can access Monday’s decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

“224. The Return of the Mifepristone Mess: A Friday night ruling from the Fifth Circuit will have massive, nationwide effects even in states in which abortions are still generally available — unless and until the Supreme Court steps in.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Advocates urge Supreme Court to ban judges from cashing in on prediction markets; The Senate this week voted to bar senators and their staff from using prediction markets in an effort to stem insider trading — now, one judicial advocacy group is saying the courts should follow suit”: Benjamin S. Weiss of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Abortion Pills by Mail; The court order, in a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana, pauses a Food and Drug Administration regulation that greatly expanded access to the abortion pill mifepristone”: Pam Belluck of The New York Times has this report.

Rachel Roubein and Praveena Somasundaram of The Washington Post report that “Appeals court limits abortion pill access nationwide; A federal appeals court issued a ruling that would temporarily block people from accessing abortion pills through telehealth providers and via mail.”

And Jennifer Calfas and Victoria Albert of The Wall Street Journal report that “Appeals Court Curtails Access to Mail-Order Abortion Pills; Judges pause FDA rule allowing doctors to send mifepristone through the mail, limiting access to most popular method for ending pregnancy.”

“Democrats Have a Jim Crow Fantasy; Black voter turnout keeps rising, despite denunciations of Supreme Court rulings”: This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

And online at Bloomberg Law, law professor Richard Pildes has an essay titled “Supreme Court’s Gutting of Voting Provision Was Long Time Coming.”

“US court blocks mail-order access to abortion drugs, for now”: Daniel Wiessner of Reuters has this report.

You can access today’s decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms”: Roy Strom of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Fifth Circuit Signals Interest in Challenge to Machine-Gun Ban”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “A majority of the Fifth Circuit’s judges indicated an interest in rehearing a case that would raise the constitutionality of a federal machine-gun ban, even as the appeals court voted not to revisit a challenge to the statute.”

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denying rehearing en banc by a 10-to-7 vote, and the opinions accompanying that order, at this link.

“Senate confirms Devens as Hawaii Supreme Court’s chief justice”: Dan Nakaso of The Honolulu Star-Advertiser has this report.

And Chad Blair of Honolulu Civil Beat reports that “Hawaiʻi Senate Confirms Vladimir Devens As Chief Justice; The vote was 20-5, with dissenting senators stating concerns over the nominee’s past political affiliation.”

“Investigation of Supreme Court justice should be independent, Utah Gov. Cox says — not a ‘witch hunt’; Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said the governor has no constitutional role in investigating allegations against a Supreme Court justice”: Robert Gehrke and Emily Anderson Stern of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

“State and federal courts jockey for power in the Roundup case and other mass public harms”: Abbe R. Gluck has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”