How Appealing Weekly Roundup – Above the Law

Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.

Handling of Pretti investigation has some prosecutors on verge of quitting; Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, frustrated by the response to the shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, have suggested they could resign en masse”: Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this report.

“Ninth Circuit revives challenge to Idaho library book censorship law; The court found the law likely violates the First Amendment by allowing subjective, age-based censorship”: Monique Merrill of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Tom Goldstein Saga Could Go From Courtroom To Big Screen”: Rachel Rippetoe of Law360 has this report (subscription required for full access).

“Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Protections for Venezuelans; The Trump administration has sought to end Temporary Protected Status for more than a million people from troubled nations; About 600,000 are from Venezuela”: Jazmine Ulloa of The New York Times has this report.

“An Ethicist ‘in the Scalia Mold’: The Minnesota Judge Blasting ICE; Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely foil for his criticism of the Trump administration’s tactics in Minnesota.” Zach Montague of The New York Times has this report.

“The Supreme Court Should Take Up the USAA Case to Bring Clarity to the Esoteric ‘Abstract Ideas’ Doctrine of Alice”: Gene Quinn has this post at IPWatchdog.