“Authors challenge Google’s book copying project”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.” You can view the petition for writ of certiorari at this link.

“Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hear Google Books Copyright Case”: Jeff John Roberts had this post yesterday at Fortune.com.

Yesterday at “The Switch” blog of The Washington Post, Hayley Tsukayama had an entry titled “The Authors Guild files to take Google to the Supreme Court.”

And Publishers Weekly reports that “Authors Guild Petitions Supreme Court to Hear Google Case.”

“Women’s rights at stake: How the Supreme Court and abortion laws will shape the 2016 election; It doesn’t seem like it now, but come primary season, abortion might be the No. 1 issue for many GOP voters.” Amanda Marcotte has this essay today at Salon.com.

“Maine’s supreme court justices to sit for trials to ease backlog of felony cases”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Supreme Court coverage reinforces public’s distrust of media”: Mark Grabowski, a professor of journalism and media law, has this blog post online at The Hill.

“In 2016, terror suspects and 7-Eleven thieves may bring surveillance to Supreme Court; This year, US v. Graham is just one of several privacy cases we have our eye on”: Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica has this report today.

“Supreme Court Cases Probe Conflict Between Constitution And Native American Rights”: Daniel Fisher has this post today at Forbes.com.

“2015: The Year in Religious Liberty Controversies; And one to look forward to in 2016.” Stephanie Slade had this post yesterday at Reason.com’s “Hit & Run” blog.

“Battle over abortion rights in California shifts to crisis pregnancy centers; New law requires notice of public reproductive health services in any licensed clinic for pregnant women; Effort targets faith-based crisis pregnancy centers that counsel women against abortion; Clinics have mounted legal challenge over compelled speech, religious freedom”: This article appeared in The Sacramento Bee early last month.

The Union of Grass Valley, California reports that “Grass Valley pregnancy center loses first court battle over state law.”

And the Christian News Network reports that “Judges Refuse to Stop Law Ordering Pregnancy Centers to Provide Info on Gov’t Abortion Programs.”

Yesterday, one pregnancy center that objects to the new law filed this emergency motion for injunction pending appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

In earlier commentary about the new California statute, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky had an op-ed titled “In California, free speech meets abortion” in The Los Angeles Times.

At Justia.com’s Verdict, law professor Vikram David Amar had an essay titled “Why the Challenges to California’s Reproductive Fact Act Are Likely Unpersuasive.”

And online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a jurisprudence essay titled “A Woman’s Right to Know: Can California make crisis pregnancy centers say what they really are?”