{"id":149056,"date":"2026-04-17T11:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/17\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-50\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:22:06","slug":"how-appealing-weekly-roundup-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/17\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-50\/","title":{"rendered":"How Appealing Weekly Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/GettyImages-509557490-620x413.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em>: <em>A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/howappealing.abovethelaw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How Appealing blog<\/a>, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTwo Magicians Warn the Supreme Court About Junk Science; Penn &amp; Teller filed a Supreme Court brief questioning the use of \u2018investigative hypnosis\u2019 in a death-penalty case in Texas\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Adam Liptak has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/16\/us\/politics\/the-docket-supreme-court-penn-teller.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this new installment<\/a>\u00a0of his \u201cThe Docket\u201d newsletter online today at The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTrump-Appointed Judges Rebuke Denial of Covid-19 Bias Rehearing\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Quinn Wilson of Bloomberg Law has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/trump-appointed-judges-rebuke-denial-of-covid-19-bias-rehearing-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>\u00a0(subscription required for full access).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI Almost Never Predict Supreme Court Outcomes. Trump Will Lose This Case.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Linda Greenhouse has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/16\/opinion\/supreme-court-trump-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA.tWTg.7iJ4qA5ZDkDx&amp;smid=nytcore-android-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this guest essay<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cKey Senator Says Any AG Pick Who Backed Jan. 6 \u2018Dead on Arrival\u2019\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/key-senator-says-any-ag-pick-who-backed-jan-6-dead-on-arrival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cEighth Circuit swats challenge to Minnesota policy embracing trans athletes; A circuit judge said since Trump\u2019s executive orders aren\u2019t yet established law, they can\u2019t be relied on to prove the likelihood of Title IX violations\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Ryan Luetkemeyer of Courthouse News Service has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/eighth-circuit-swats-challenge-to-minnesota-policy-embracing-trans-athletes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cProcess to Refund Tariffs to Begin Next Week; Trade court judge says government confirmed it is on track to start processing claims for refunds of Trump\u2019s tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Lydia Wheeler of The Wall Street Journal has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/process-to-refund-tariffs-to-begin-next-week-403c6eaa?st=Duf4Y9&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-166\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Appealing Weekly Roundup<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/GettyImages-509557490-620x413.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em>: <em>A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/howappealing.abovethelaw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How Appealing blog<\/a>, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTwo Magicians Warn the Supreme Court About Junk Science; Penn &amp; Teller filed a Supreme Court brief questioning the use of \u2018investigative hypnosis\u2019 in a death-penalty case in Texas\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Adam Liptak has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/16\/us\/politics\/the-docket-supreme-court-penn-teller.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this new installment<\/a>\u00a0of his \u201cThe Docket\u201d newsletter online today at The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTrump-Appointed Judges Rebuke Denial of Covid-19 Bias Rehearing\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Quinn Wilson of Bloomberg Law has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/trump-appointed-judges-rebuke-denial-of-covid-19-bias-rehearing-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>\u00a0(subscription required for full access).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI Almost Never Predict Supreme Court Outcomes. Trump Will Lose This Case.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Linda Greenhouse has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/16\/opinion\/supreme-court-trump-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA.tWTg.7iJ4qA5ZDkDx&amp;smid=nytcore-android-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this guest essay<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cKey Senator Says Any AG Pick Who Backed Jan. 6 \u2018Dead on Arrival\u2019\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/key-senator-says-any-ag-pick-who-backed-jan-6-dead-on-arrival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cEighth Circuit swats challenge to Minnesota policy embracing trans athletes; A circuit judge said since Trump\u2019s executive orders aren\u2019t yet established law, they can\u2019t be relied on to prove the likelihood of Title IX violations\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Ryan Luetkemeyer of Courthouse News Service has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/eighth-circuit-swats-challenge-to-minnesota-policy-embracing-trans-athletes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cProcess to Refund Tariffs to Begin Next Week; Trade court judge says government confirmed it is on track to start processing claims for refunds of Trump\u2019s tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Lydia Wheeler of The Wall Street Journal has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/process-to-refund-tariffs-to-begin-next-week-403c6eaa?st=Duf4Y9&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-166\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Appealing Weekly Roundup<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s How Appealing blog, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. \u201cTwo Magicians Warn the Supreme Court About Junk Science; Penn &amp; Teller filed a Supreme Court brief questioning the use of \u2018investigative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-509557490-1615jh.jpeg?fit=2121%2C1414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}