“Racial covenants in home titles to remain in public record, Washington Supreme Court rules”: Laurel Demkovich of The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington has this report.
You can access yesterday’s unanimous ruling of the Washington Supreme Court at this link.
“How Low Will Senate Republicans Go on Ketanji Brown Jackson?” Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
“What can Democrats do about Clarence Thomas?” Columnist Paul Waldman has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Clarence Thomas and his wife’s texts: A kerfuffle over appearances.” Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Inside Ginni Thomas’ ‘Insane’ Hiring Memos for Trump; Ginni Thomas’ suggested hires included known bigots and at least one suspected foreign spy, sources say”: Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley of The Daily Beast have this report.
“Princeton Must Face Male Student’s Sex Bias Suit After Expulsion”: Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued yesterday.
“Texas Supreme Court rules for San Antonio in ‘Chick-fil-A’ lawsuit filed by conservative activists”: Edward McKinley of The San Antonio Express-News has this report.
Today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas consists of a majority opinion and a concurring opinion.
This case presented a legal standing question similar to whether Texas’s SB8 could lawfully authorize third-parties to sue abortion providers, but today’s decision concluded that it would be premature to resolve that issue at this time.
“Judge Blocks Military Vaccine Mandate Again, Dares Supreme Court to Stop Him”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Supreme Court ethics push faces GOP buzz saw”: Jordain Carney of The Hill has this report.
“The Conservative Defense of Ginni Thomas Is Basically ‘Just Trust Ginni Thomas’; Call me a cynic, but I do not find this to be a persuasive argument”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes.
“U.S. Navy to Name Ship After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; The ship, a replenishment oiler, is designed to carry fuel to the Navy’s operating carrier strike groups”: Derrick Bryson Taylor of The New York Times has this report on a news release that the U.S. Navy issued yesterday.
“Devin Nunes left Congress in December, but judges continue to dismiss his stream of defamation suits; Appeals court judges have upheld a lower court in dismissing one of Nunes’ lawsuits against the Washington Post”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report on a per curiam judgment that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.
Update: In other coverage, Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that “Trump ally Devin Nunes loses Washington Post defamation appeal.”
“Yankees to appeal public release of investigatory letter Rob Manfred sent them in 2017: Source.” Evan Drellich of The Athletic has this report.
My earlier coverage of last month’s three-judge Second Circuit panel’s ruling can be accessed here.
“Ohio appeals court upholds decisions on Gibson’s Bakery lawsuit against Oberlin College”: Cliff Pinckard of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report.
In today’s edition of The Chronicle-Telegram of Elyria, Ohio, Dave O’Brien has a front page article headlined “Court rejects appeals by Oberlin College, Gibson’s Bakery from 2019 civil trial.”
And Greg Wilson of the Washington Examiner reports that “Oberlin must pay record $31M award to bakery it defamed as racist, says appeals court.”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of Ohio’s Ninth District Court of Appeals at this link.
“Support for 15-Week Abortion Ban Outweighs Opposition, WSJ Poll Finds; Majority think abortion should be legal in most cases, but many back 15-week ban being considered by Supreme Court”: Catherine Lucey of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“Court says Thomas Jefferson admissions can remain as case proceeds”: In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Hannah Natanson has this article reporting on an order, accompanied by a concurrence and a dissent, that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued yesterday.
“Entrenching the Culture of Originalism; Beneath the din of partisanship, the Jackson confirmation hearings show that originalism is becoming our law, even if its contours remain up for debate”: John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.