Six days: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy spent six days writing the landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the country, the San Diego Union Tribune reports. He referred to the opinion as “very difficult,” and he compared it to a flag-burning case he decided early in his career on the high court. Kennedy made his first public remarks about the gay-marriage ruling at the annual judicial conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Class certified: A federal judge in California on Thursday certified a class action against Apple over the company's employee bag-search policy, Reuters reports.The ruling is part of a suit brought by Apple employees in 2013 arguing that Apple should compensate thousands of store workers for the time taken to search their bags to prevent shoplifting. Several employees complained to Apple's CEO Tim Cook that having their bags searched was “embarrassing and demeaning,” according to court filings. Class members include more than 12,000 current and former employees. NLJ affiliate The Recorder has more here on the ruling.

In the seat: An update from The American Lawyer's on the Dewey trial: “Defense lawyers took aim at a key prosecution witness in the Dewey & LeBoeuf criminal trial on Thursday, hoping to undermine three days of testimony that appeared to link the firm's executives to the alleged accounting fraud at the heart of the case.”