“Israel high court hears first case challenging secret detentions in Gaza war”: Claire Parker and Hazem Balousha of The Washington Post have this report.

“Catastrophizing the Oral Argument in Trump v. U.S.; No, the justices were not normalizing the president as a crime boss”: Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Amy Coney Barrett is no handmaid to the Supreme Court’s conservative majority”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Arizona Lawmakers Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban, Creating Rift on the Right; Two Republican state senators broke with their party to ensure final passage of the repeal; Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is expected to sign it on Thursday”: Jack Healy and Elizabeth Dias of The New York Times have this report.

The article notes that one of the votes to repeal the law came from Republican State Senator Shawnna Bolick, “whose husband is one of the Arizona Supreme Court justices who upheld the 1864 law.”

“9th Circuit reprimands San Diego federal judge for misconduct in handcuffing of defendant’s teen daughter; U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez said he was trying to scare girl away from using drugs, but appeals court found he had no authority to order her restrained”: Alex Riggins of The San Diego Union-Tribune has this report.

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “9th Circuit reprimands California judge who handcuffed, berated crying 13-year-old girl.”

And Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “Panel reprimands California federal judge for cuffing 13-year-old girl.”

You can access today’s order of the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Sex, Secrets Trigger Downfall of Star Texas Bankruptcy Judge”: James Nani and Ronnie Greene of Bloomberg Law have this report, along with a related article headlined “How Four Judges Kept Romance Allegations Quiet for Two Years.”

“Jones Day Leads in Supreme Court Arguments With New Faces”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“When judges get free trips to luxury resorts, disclosure is spotty”: Tom Dreisbach and Carrie Johnson had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“Florida’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Now Law, With Political Implications; The ban, which took effect on Wednesday, was part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s push into cultural conservatism; But Florida politics is rarely that simple”: Patricia Mazzei of The New York Times has this news analysis.

Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post has an article headlined “Tears and despair at Florida abortion clinic in final hours before ban; A Fort Lauderdale-area clinic saw patients into the night — and turned some away — as the state prepared for a six-week abortion ban to take effect May 1.”

And in commentary, online at Slate, law professor Mary Ziegler has a Jurisprudence essay titled “The Six-Week Abortion Ban in Florida Is Only the Beginning; The history of these bans suggests they’re far from the anti-abortion movement’s endgame.”

“Inside the far-right plan to use civil rights law to disrupt the 2024 election; Experts describe the plan as a legal long shot, but say it could sow doubts about the integrity of a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump”: Sarah D. Wire and Mackenzie Mays of The Los Angeles Times have this report.

“Trump immunity plea sets up test for Supreme Court on judicial restraint; The Supreme Court’s search for a ruling of the ages over presidential immunity could leave the justices attempting to square a circle”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“The Strange Career of Antisubordination”: Law professor Justin Driver has this article in the May 2024 issue of the University of Chicago Law Review.

“Johnson & Johnson to pay $6.5 billion to resolve nearly all talc ovarian cancer lawsuits in U.S.; The deal, pending approval by claimants, would allow J&J to resolve the lawsuits through a third bankruptcy filing of a subsidiary company”: Annika Kim Constantino of CNBC has this report.

Today, Johnson & Johnson issued a news release titled “Johnson & Johnson Announces Plan by its Subsidiary, LLT Management LLC, to Resolve All Current and Future Ovarian Cancer Talc Claims Through a Consensual ‘Prepackaged’ Reorganization; The Plan would resolve 99.75% of all pending talc lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson and its affiliates in the United States.”

“Justice Stephen Breyer’s blunt message to Supreme Court conservatives: ‘Slow down’; The retired liberal justice spoke to ABC News Live Prime.” Devin Dwyer, Patty See, and Sarah Herndon of ABC News have this report.