(Subscription required) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday weighed the constitutionality of a California law that bars employers from disciplining workers who decline to attend meetings about religious or political matters unrelated to their job duties.

Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan will appear July 14 before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which has jurisdiction over the annual spending measure that funds the Supreme Court, according to a scheduling announcement from House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole.

Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero joined the “Justice 250” event, which centered on reinforcing the rights and liberties embodied in the Declaration of Independence, highlighting how justice has progressed over the last 250 years and how it can be protected going forward.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in affirming the dismissal with prejudice of an action brought by a rapper/chef who complains that her persona was pilfered by Amazon.com, has applied a 1992 decision arising under California law declaring that there was no violation of television hostess Vanna White’s right of publicity in using, in a commercial, a robot resembling her standing on a Wheel of Fortune-like set.