“Appellate panel scrutinizes Idaho ‘abortion trafficking’ law as state seeks to revive it; The appellate panel asked what it means to ‘recruit’ someone to obtain an abortion”: Hillel Aron of Courthouse News Service has this report.
Brendan Pierson of Reuters reports that “Idaho seeks to revive ‘abortion trafficking’ law in US appeals court.”
And Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal reports that “9th Circuit Judges Probe Scope of Idaho’s ‘Abortion Travel Ban’; The state’s law, which went into effect last May, criminalizes ‘recruiting, harboring, or transporting’ a pregnant minor to access a legal abortion if the adult has the intent to conceal the abortion from a parent or guardian.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted the video of today’s oral argument on YouTube at this link.
“Columbia Law voices confidence in grads in face of conservative judges’ boycott”: Nate Raymond and Karen Sloan of Reuters have this report.
“Anti-Choice Activists Are Threatening to Sue Women Over Legal Abortions Now; Jonathan Mitchell wrote Texas’s anti-choice bounty hunter law; Now, he’s pushing the most aggressive possible interpretation to try and make women afraid to exercise their rights”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls & Strikes.
“Justice Samuel Alito to address record-breaking 2024 class at Franciscan University”: Kate Quiñones of Catholic News Agency has this report.
“US Supreme Court Argument Order Gives Unlucky Lawyers Less Time; More questions asked by justices in first case of the day; Short break between cases would help, advocate says”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report.
As arguing counsel for respondent in the first “second case” argued this Term, I fortunately anticipated the concern mentioned in the article by Daniel Geyser, as noted here.
“Judge skewers Alabama attorney general, allows abortion travel lawsuit to proceed”: Howard Koplowitz of The Birmingham News has this report.
John Fritze of CNN reports that “Federal judge blasts threat by Alabama to prosecute groups aiding out-of-state abortions.”
And at his Substack site, Chris Geidner has a post titled “Federal judge rebukes Alabama AG’s threat to prosecute providing help for out-of-state abortions; ‘[T]he Constitution protects the right to cross state lines and engage in lawful conduct in other States, including receiving an abortion,’ Judge Myron Thompson ruled.”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama at this link.
“ProPublica Wins Pulitzer Prize for Supreme Court Coverage; The award marks ProPublica’s 7th Pulitzer; Uvalde shooting investigation is named a Pulitzer finalist”: ProPublica has this report.
“Dormant Commerce and Corporate Jurisdiction”: Law professor Stephen E. Sachs has posted this article at SSRN.
