Thursday round-up

Briefly:

• At the Associated Press, Mark Sherman reports that the recurrent frenzy of speculation among court-watchers about the possible retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy “reflects the darkest fears and fondest wishes of people who care about the court on both sides of the political spectrum.”
• At Slate, Joshua Geltzer writes that “[i]t’s relatively rare to see the solicitor general, after arguing a case before the Supreme Court, submit a letter to the court correcting himself,” as Solicitor General Noel Francisco did after last week’s argument in Trump v. Hawaii, a challenge to the latest version of the Trump administration’s entry ban, and “even rarer when the letter reveals that he still hasn’t corrected his error.”
• At FanGraphs, Nathaniel Grow looks at two cert petitions “contesting [Major League Baseball]’s antitrust exemption [that] are currently before the Supreme Court,” calling it “at least possible that the Supreme Court could once again call upon MLB to defend its unique status under federal antitrust law.”
• At Bloomberg Law, Perry Cooper reports that “[t]he next U.S. Supreme Court term could be a big one for class action practitioners after the court granted two privacy class cases April 30.”

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