“Justices Find Courts Can Hear Disputes Over Railroad Disability Benefits; The nation’s highest court ruled 5-4 that federal courts can review an administrative board’s refusal to reopen a case in which it denied disability benefits to a railroad worker”: Erika Williams and Alexandra Jones of Courthouse News Service have this report.

“Supreme Court cancels hearing on border wall”: Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has this report.

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court scraps arguments in Trump-era immigration and wall cases.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Supreme Court Cancels Arguments on Border Wall, Asylum Policy.”

Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Supreme Court cancels arguments on Trump’s border wall, ‘remain in Mexico’ policy; President Joe Biden stopped the wall project in one of his first steps after being sworn into office.”

Priscilla Alvarez and Ariane de Vogue of CNN report that “Supreme Court delays oral arguments on border wall and asylum rule.”

Adam Shaw, Shannon Bream, and Bill Mears of Fox News report that “Supreme Court cancels arguments over Trump-era immigration policies at Biden administration’s request; Biden has signed a number of orders reversing key Trump-era policies on immigration.”

Rebecca Beitsch of The Hill reports that “Supreme Court cancels border wall, asylum policy hearings after Biden shifts.”

And Brad Kutner of Courthouse News Service reports that “High Court Grants Biden Request to Drop Trump-Era Immigration Cases; After his election win over Donald Trump, President Joe Biden asked the justices to not weigh in on policies he plans to roll back.”

“U.S. Supreme Court will hear PennEast Pipeline appeal of N.J. eminent-domain dispute”: Andrew Maykuth of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

Michael Sol Warren of NJ Advance Media reports that “Future of controversial $1B PennEast pipeline taken up by U.S. Supreme Court.”

And Jack Rodgers of Courthouse News Service reports that “Pipeline That Locked Horns With New Jersey Will Get High Court Audience.”

“The Wall Street Journal Misreads Section 230 and the First Amendment”: Berin Szóka and Ari Cohn have this post at the “Lawfare” blog about a law professor’s op-ed that The Wall Street Journal published last week.

“Iowa legislator seeks oversight of Iowa Supreme Court; Bill would have allowed lawmakers to question justices, override rulings”: James Q. Lynch of The Gazette of Cedar Rapids has this report.

“7th Circuit certifies 2 med-mal questions to Indiana Supreme Court”: Katie Stancombe of The Indiana Lawyer has this post about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today.

“DOJ urges Supreme Court to undo certification of Goldman shareholder class”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“A First Amendment Case That May Be Key to Trump’s Senate Trial”: Tony Mauro has this post at Freedom Forum.

“Missouri’s second female Supreme Court judge retiring”: Summer Ballentine of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Missouri Supreme Court Judge Laura Denvir Stith on Tuesday announced she’s retiring from the state’s high court.”

“U.S. Supreme Court to hear pipeline company’s bid to seize New Jersey land”: Jan Wolfe of Reuters has this report.

And Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “PennEast Pipeline Gets High Court Hearing on Land-Use Rights.”

“Clarence Thomas’ wife apologizes to his former clerks for divide that developed amid fallout over Capitol riot”: Devan Cole and Ariane de Vogue of CNN have this report.

“Originalism Is Dead. Long Live Catholic Natural Law. On the ‘postliberal’ future of the federal courts.” Peter Hammond Schwartz has this article online at The New Republic.

“Reintroducing Sonia Sotomayor: What can the most liberal justice accomplish on the most conservative court in decades?” Irin Carmon has this article in this week’s issue of New York Magazine.

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

Access today’s rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court issued rulings in three argud cases.

1. Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion of the Court in Salinas v. Railroad Retirement Bd., No. 19-199. Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

2. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, No. 19-351. You can access the oral argument via this link.

3. And the Court issued a unanimous per curiam decision in Republic of Hungary v. Simon, No. 18-1447, vacating and remanding for further proceedings consistent with the Court’s ruling today in the Federal Republic of Germany case. You can access the oral argument via this link.

“Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood under investigation for possible voter fraud in Georgia; Wood, who claimed the presidential election was stolen, told an Atlanta-based reporter that he has lived in South Carolina ‘for several months'”: Dartunorro Clark and Charlie Gile of NBC News have this report.

“Biden moves quickly to make his mark on federal courts after Trump’s record judicial nominations”: Ann E. Marimow and Matt Viser of The Washington Post have this report.

“Nativity scene OK in front of Jackson County Courthouse, federal appeals court rules”: Johnny Magdaleno of The Indianapolis Star has this report.

Justine Coleman of The Hill reports that “Court rules Indiana courthouse can display nativity scene.”

And David Wells of Courthouse News Service reports that “Seventh Circuit Rules Nativity Scene Can Be Placed on Courthouse Grounds; A nativity scene displayed outside of an Indiana courthouse has secular significance, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.