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A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked a California law that makes it a crime to require employees to sign agreements for arbitration of workplace disputes.

Appellate news.

A snapshot of stories from around the legal web.

A selection of appellate news of the week.

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. “The Mystery of Richard Posner: What is Richard Posner’s judicial legacy?” Corbin K. Barthold has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog. “Ellwood City native Debra Todd was a ‘superstar from the start.’ Now she leads the Pa. Supreme Court.” Anya Sostek of The Pittsburgh...

The law clerk robbed a store and shot at police officers, and was sentenced for that in 1994.

A federal appeals court has refused to disturb a judge’s ruling in favor of Walmart, despite her ownership of company stock.

Two conservative federal appeals judges who are boycotting Yale Law School graduates have offered to discuss free speech issues in a panel discussion at the school.

U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith is encouraging Yale Law School graduates to apply for his clerkships after his colleague announced that he won’t be hiring any of them.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan called a challenge to Alabama’s congressional voting maps a “slam dunk” during oral arguments Tuesday, even as the conservative justices on the high court appeared to be searching for a narrow way to uphold them.