WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Friday, June 2

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

• Supreme Court Backs Employer in Suit Over Strike Losses (Noam Scheiber, The New York Times) 
• U.S. Supreme Court gives boost to whistleblowers in drug pricing case (John Kruzel, Reuters)
• Jackson defends “the right to strike” in her first big dissent (Chris Geidner, Law Dork)
• There’s Unsettling New Evidence About William Rehnquist’s Views on Segregation (Richard L. Hasen & Dahlia Lithwick, Slate)
• Descendants asking US Supreme Court to rename Brown v. Board of Education for SC case (Jessica Holdman, The Post and Courier)

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Thursday, June 1

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:

• Majority of Americans favor affirmative action in colleges as Supreme Court seems poised to end it, poll says (Char Adams, NBC News) 
• Texas man urges Supreme Court to stay out of major Second Amendment case (Ariane de Vogue, CNN)
• Could Hunter Biden be the next poster child for Second Amendment rights? (Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico)
• The Supreme Court Sleeper Case That Poses an Existential Threat to Artistic Freedom (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
• The Problem With Wealth-Based Affirmative Action (Richard Rothstein, The Atlantic)

OPINION ANALYSIS

Court rules for Maryland prison official on procedural issue

The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a Maryland prison official another chance to defend himself against a federal civil rights claim. Last week’s unanimous ruling in Dupree v. Younger rested on procedural issues, but it was an important one for the litigants involved – and, as Justice Amy Coney Barrett observed in announcing it, for law professors.

The case arose from a 2013 attack on Kevin Younger, who was being held before trial at a state prison in Baltimore, by three prison guards. The guards beat Younger severely and slammed his head against a toilet, leaving him unconscious and bleeding. Younger was left with permanent injuries to his face, wrist, ribs, hand, and leg.

The three prison guards who were directly responsible for the attack were convicted of assault. But Younger also filed a federal civil rights claim against Neil Dupree, a lieutenant in the prison, alleging that he had ordered the attack.

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Wednesday, May 31

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

• US Supreme Court spurns ex-Shkreli lawyer Greebel’s challenge to prosecutors (Mike Scarcella, Reuters) 
• What the Supreme Court’s ruling means for the future of wetlands (Lyric Aquino, Grist)
• Elite High School’s Admissions Plan May Face Supreme Court Test (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• The Urgent Warning That Got Cut From a Supreme Court Opinion 20 Years Ago (Richard L. Hasen, Slate)
• The Supreme Court was enabling corruption well before the Clarence Thomas scandal (Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, The Los Angeles Times)

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Tuesday, May 30

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

• US supreme court end-of-term decisions could transform key areas of public life (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian) 
• Ranchers hail, environmentalists fear Supreme Court clean water ruling (Lillie Boudreaux, Cronkite News)
• US Supreme Court Turns Away Social Media Sex Trafficking Case (Emily Birnbaum, Bloomberg Law)
• Guns, Trump, and the G.O.P. (Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker))
• The Supreme Court Is Crippling Environmental Protections. Where Is Congress? (Jim Murphy, The New York Times)