Hollywood Backlash, Semaforeplay, BuzzFeed Immolation

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon guide to what’s new at Puck.

First up today, Eriq Gardner explains how the Supreme Court’s abortion decision is already generating exotic new legal headaches on Wall Street—and why Brett Kavanaugh’s footnotes could presage years of pain for the Fortune 500.

Plus, below the fold, Matt Belloni reveals how Hollywood is responding to the end of Roe. William D. Cohan inspects Jonah Peretti’s P&L. And Jon Kelly joins Peter Hamby to discuss the latest news emanating from Ben Smith’s Semafor.

Is offering reimbursement for abortion travel more than a gesture? Will it amount to a brave act? Do these announcements foreshadow some willingness to fight for abortion rights? And if not, can Corporate America even avoid the turmoil to come? These are hard questions to answer because I’m not convinced that executives have really grappled with the post-Dobbs mayhem ahead. After all, until now, most companies have remained on the sidelines of the abortion debate.

The fact that major corporations kept a low profile on the abortion issue might not seem surprising, but that certainly wasn’t their posture in 2015, when the Supreme Court was tackling the hot-button cultural topic of gay marriage. Back then, 379 big companies including Apple, AT&T, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, and the New England Patriots told the justices in an amicus brief that allowing states to prohibit gay marriage would impose economic burdens on them. What’s more, they added, “The end result is employee uncertainty, low morale, decreased productivity, and increased costs.”...