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How Appealing Weekly Roundup

The week in appellate news.

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.

“Supreme Court Weighs US Mail Ballot Fight as DOJ Losses Grow”: Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Sam Bankman-Fried Asks Supreme Court to Review Fraud Conviction; The disgraced founder of the crypto exchange FTX is serving a 25-year prison sentence”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

“Indiana Supreme Court weighs limits of religious exemptions to abortion ban; In question is an injunction protecting a class of Hoosiers who say thier religious beliefs conflict with the state’s near-total ban”: Casey Smith of Indiana Capital Chronicle has this report.

“Joe diGenova, loyalist tapped by Trump to oversee controversial DOJ probe targeting his foes, resigns: Sources; DiGenova had been probing officials involved in past investigations of Trump.” Katherine Faulders, Alexander Mallin, and Luke Barr of ABC News have this report.

“Defying Precedent in Ten Commandments Case; A much-reversed appeals court upheld a Texas law requiring schools to post the sacred text”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “The Docket” newsletter online at The New York Times.

“Appeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUS; The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compared ICE’s policy to Japanese internment”: Kyle Cheney of Politico has this report.