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• That suit was previously stayed in the federal district court in which it was filed and transferred to the Fifth Circuit Court, which canceled a hearing scheduled for Monday, leaving the fate of the law in limbo.

  Midnight Appointments, Online Pill Orders: Abortion Ban Sends Texans Scrambling | Emily Shugerman | September 1, 2021 | The Daily Beast

• His uncle, Theodore Levin, was chief judge of the federal district court in Detroit.

  Carl Levin, six-term Michigan senator who garnered bipartisan respect, dies at 87 | Michael H. Brown | July 30, 2021 | Washington Post

• The plaintiffs sued under the Alien Tort Statute, a 1789 law that allows federal district courts to hear “any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.”

  Supreme Court says chocolate companies cannot be sued over child slavery on African cocoa farms | Robert Barnes, Peter Whoriskey | June 17, 2021 | Washington Post

• The auction scandal, which was also investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, led to the conviction of Paul Mozer, head of Salomon’s government-bond department, in federal district court.

  Robert Glauber, Harvard business professor and ranking Treasury official, dies at 81 | Louie Estrada | March 4, 2021 | Washington Post

• Rakoff realized that America’s “system of justice is failing its mission” after becoming a federal district court judge a quarter-century ago.

  A fed-up judge condemns the inequities in America’s legal system | Michael Bobelian | February 19, 2021 | Washington Post