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Monday, June 7, 2021

“The Supreme Court may toss Roe. But Congress can still preserve abortion rights. A simple majority vote in the Senate would nullify the threat to reproductive health posed by the Mississippi case.” Law professor Neal Kumar Katyal has this essay online at The Washington Post.

Posted at 7:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman resigns, fueling 2022 speculation”: Taylor Goldenstein of The Houston Chronicle has this report.

Posted at 7:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Tiger Mom and the Hornet’s Nest: For two decades, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld were Yale Law power brokers; A new generation wants to see them exiled.” Irin Carmon has this article in the June 7, 2021 issue of New York magazine.

Posted at 6:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gripped by ‘Dinner Party-gate,’ Yale Law Confronts a Venomous Divide; A dispute centering on the celebrity professor Amy Chua exposes a culture pitting student against student, professor against professor”: Sarah Lyall and Stephanie Saul of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 6:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Gustavo Gelpi — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

Posted at 11:08 AM by Howard Bashman



On Saturday, June 5, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit posted online an opinion with an issuance date of Friday, June 11, 2021: Thanks to a reader based in Sweden(!) for emailing me on Saturday about the issuance of this decision. The decision lacks any identification of its author, nor does it state that it was issued per curiam.

Update: The opinion has been revised to replace the June 11, 2021 issuance date with the issuance date of June 4, 2021. However, the opinion still fails to note who wrote it, nor is the opinion expressly identified as a per curiam opinion.

Posted at 10:54 AM by Howard Bashman



Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in one new case.

And in National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System, No. 20–928, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a statement, in which Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Brett M. Kaganaugh joined, respecting the denial of certiorari.

Posted at 9:31 AM by Howard Bashman