“Apple Loses Appeal of Contempt Ruling in Epic App Store Row”: Leah Nylen and Josh Sisco of Bloomberg News have this report.
And Edvard Pettersson of Courthouse News Service reports that “Ninth Circuit confirms contempt finding against Apple in Epic Games battle; The appellate panel agreed with the trial judge that Apple’s 27% commission for purchases on developers’ websites had violated her 2021 injunction, though it said she went too far by ordering the tech giant to charge no commission at all.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.
“A Grand Jury Again Declines to Reindict Letitia James; It was a striking rejection of the administration’s retribution campaign”: Jonah E. Bromwich, Devlin Barrett, and Glenn Thrush of The New York Times have this report.
And Sadie Gurman and C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal report that “Grand Jury Declines Latest Attempt to Indict Letitia James; Justice Department suffers another setback in attempt to revive case against Democratic official after a judge dismissed original charges.”
“Mangione Backpack Search Needed No Warrant, Officer Says”: Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos of Bloomberg News have this report.
And Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service reports that “Luigi Mangione’s lawyers fight release of 2024 shooting footage; Prosecutors last week shared a two-hour-long CCTV video, showing the shooting of Brian Thompson and its aftermath, with members of the media.”
“South Carolina man asks Fourth Circuit for new trial in trans woman’s slaying; Daqua Ritter’s case was the first time federal prosecutors brought a hate crime based on gender identity to trial”: Steve Garrison of Courthouse News Service has this report.
“NJ ‘Sensitive Places’ Gun Ruling Scrapped by Third Circuit”: Alex Ebert of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).
You can access today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link.
“Halligan’s US attorney nomination appears dead on arrival in Senate; Both Democratic senators from Virginia signaled they would withhold blue slips for the controversial nominee, who served as the acting lead prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia until she was disqualified by a judge”: Benjamin S. Weiss of Courthouse News Service has this report.
“Bonus 196: What if Constitutional Law is . . . Complicated? Over and over again during Monday’s oral argument in the Slaughter case, the Republican appointees waved their hands at the possibility that big constitutional law questions might have messy answers.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.
“Judicial Selection in the Reagan Administration: An insider’s account.” Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.
“Remember the Torture Memos? The Boat Strike Memos May Be Worse. The Trump administration needs to release the legal analysis underpinning its controversial military campaign.” Ankush Khardori has this essay online at Politico Magazine.
“Administration fails again to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James; A second grand jury refuses request to indict the Trump foe, a serious setback for the administration”: Perry Stein, Jasmine Golden, and Salvador Rizzo of The Washington Post have this report.
“Jurors in Sandwich Thrower Case Found Charges ‘Bunch of Baloney’”: Keith L. Alexander of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Laurence Tribe’s ‘security blanket’ for Supreme Court advocacy”: Harvard Law School has posted this video on YouTube.
“SCOTUSblog” launches the “Interim Docket Blog”: You can access it via this link.
“‘Brazenly Partisan’ Judges Scrutinize Trump’s Mind, But Refuse To Explain Themselves”: Josh Blackman has this post at Civitas Outlook.
“We’re Trying to Find a Line the Supreme Court Won’t Cross”: Emily Bazelon and David French have this Conversation online at The New York Times Opinion.
“Federal judge orders Kilmar Abrego García’s ‘immediate release’; U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said the government could not indefinitely detain Abrego, a 30-year-old immigrant from El Salvador who is fighting his deportation”: Maria Sacchetti and Jeremy Roebuck of The Washington Post have this report.
Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Court orders DHS to release illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.”
Priscilla Alvarez of CNN reports that “Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia be released from ICE custody ‘immediately.’”
And Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News reports that “Abrego Garcia Wins Latest Bid to Be Released From US Custody.”
You can access today’s decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland at this link.
“Supreme Court wrestles with death penalty in cases of intellectual disabilities; The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new rules for states’ death rows”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.
“Ninth Circuit Upholds Federal Machine Gun Ban in Split Decision”: Isaiah Poritz of Bloomberg Law has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.
“Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally; One of the president’s appeals-court nominees, a former lawyer for the president, was in the crowd at a raucous event in Mt. Pocono, Pa.” Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.
Nick Moyle of NJ Advance Media has a report headlined “A federal judge attended Trump’s latest rally. Here’s why that’s ‘highly unusual.’”
Mike Scarcella of Reuters reports that “Trump-allied judge draws scrutiny for rally appearance.”
Benjamin S. Weiss of Courthouse News Service has a report headlined “Did Emil Bove violate judicial ethics code with appearance at Trump rally? Experts and lawmakers are questioning the decision by the controversial Third Circuit judge and former Trump lawyer, who has long been accused of political loyalty to the White House.”
And in commentary, online at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has a post titled “Emil Bove Will Always Be a Trump Rallygoer First; Trump demands loyalty from his judicial nominees; As Emil Bove demonstrated on Tuesday, his nominees are very comfortable with displaying that loyalty in public.”
“Supreme Court Weighs Opening Investment Funds to More Suits”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.
“Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law; Attending Trump’s rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning; Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.
“Campaign Finance in a Polarized Republic: The party spending case before the Court is about an old quarrel, but the stakes are very different now.” Bob Bauer has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.
“Trump wants Supreme Court’s oldest justices, Thomas and Alito, to stay; ‘I hope they stay ’cause I think they’re fantastic, OK? Both of those men are fantastic,’ Trump said of conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the two oldest members of the court”: Zac Anderson of USA Today has this report.
“The Liberal Justices Aren’t as United as You Might Think; Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson are split over the best approach: investing in diplomacy inside the court or sounding the alarm outside.” You can access today’s episode of “The Daily” podcast from The New York Times via this link.
“Llano County library book removals allowed after U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear challenge; Seven residents launched a challenge in 2022 to the removal of 17 books, which included topics on race and gender; They won a reinstatement of the titles, but lost on appeal”: Alex Nguyen of The Texas Tribune has this report.
“Supreme Costs: A condensed version of our series on the ‘obscene’ spending on Wisconsin justices; In a three-part series, Wisconsin Watch examines why our state set back-to-back national records in Supreme Court election spending and what can be done about it.” Larry Sandler of Wisconsin Watch has this report.
“North Dakota names first female Supreme Court chief justice”: Mary Steurer of North Dakota Monitor has this report.
“Trump’s lawyer pushed for more executive power; Supreme Court justices seem eager to comply”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.
“The Supreme Court Might Actually Simplify Campaign Finance”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
“Judge Suggests Prosecutor on Comey and James Cases Should Resign as U.S. Attorney; Lindsey Halligan’s indictments against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, were dismissed last month over Ms. Halligan’s appointment”: Devlin Barrett of The New York Times has this report.
And Alan Feuer of The New York Times reports that “Justice Dept. Fights Roadblock to Pursuing Comey Case; The battle preceded the department’s looming decision over whether — and how — to bring new charges against James B. Comey.”
“Emil Bove Attends Trump Rally in Rare Move for Federal Judge”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Supreme Court Hears Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability; The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.
“Supreme Court Seems Ready to Let the President Fire Almost Anyone”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
“Three Years After Dobbs, ‘the Reality Is People Are Getting Abortions’; The state divide over abortions has only deepened since the Supreme Court decision; But research shows the number of abortions has climbed”: Soumya Karlamangla of The New York Times has this report.
“Dan Markel murder: Donna Adelson moved to prison closer to home.” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.
