“Jon Wilcox backs election of chief justice on state Supreme Court”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a news update that begins, “A former state Supreme Court justice called Thursday for allowing members of the court to pick who will lead them, but said he would be comfortable with putting off making the change for five years.”

“Alan Dershowitz Vows to Clear Name After Sex Abuse Accusation; The prominent criminal law expert, accused of sexual relations with a minor, vehemently denies the allegations”: Jonathan Handel has this post today at the “Hollywood, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

And yesterday and today at National Review Online’s “Bench Memos” blog, Ed Whelan had posts titled “Alan Dershowitz’s Curious Denials” and “Alan Dershowitz Responds.”

“On-call workers entitled to pay for all hours spent at job, court rules”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this news update reporting on a ruling that the Supreme Court of California issued today.

“Courts wrestle with wave of new state abortion laws”: Paige Winfield Cunningham of Politico.com has this report today.

“The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision continues to echo”: Amanda Hollis-Brusky has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

Hollis-Brusky is the author of the forthcoming book “Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution.”

“ND Supreme Court declines to rehear drug-induced abortion case”: The The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, North Dakota has this report.

“State revises death penalty protocol, will delay executions”: Alan Johnson of The Columbus Dispatch has this news update.

And Reuters reports that “Ohio to change execution drugs after inmate’s prolonged death.”

“Could you decide on death penalty in Tsarnaev case?” Online at The Boston Globe, columnist Thomas Farragher has an essay that begins, “Could you sit in a room with 11 other people and decide to strap Dzohkhar Tsarnaev to a gurney inside a federal prison where nameless technicians would inject him with a deadly poison?”

“The Supreme Court: Guilty as Charged.” Online at Newsweek, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has an essay that begins, “After 227 years of history, how should we judge the U.S. Supreme Court?”

“The legal argument against mandatory vaccination”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

“New Virginia Supreme Court chief justice Donald Lemons sworn in Thursday”: The Associated Press has this report.

“States Fight Obama’s Claim Immigration Order Is Unreviewable”: Laurel Brubaker Calkins of Bloomberg News has a report that begins, “Twenty-five states’ top lawyers blasted the federal government’s claim that President Barack Obama’s executive order letting more than 4 million undocumented immigrants stay in the U.S. is above judicial review.”

“Same-Sex Marriage Primed for Review as U.S. High Court Gathers”: Greg Stohr and Andrew Harris of Bloomberg News have this report.

“Roberts’s Frost: A poetic justice.” Adam J. White has this blog post online today at The Weekly Standard.

“What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taught Me About Being a Stay-at-Home Dad: A young lawyer puts his former boss’s ideals into practice.” Ryan Park has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

“Guantanamo order bars women from moving accused in 9/11 case”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A military judge ordered officials at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday to stop using female guards to move the five defendants in the Sept. 11 case to court and back and to meetings with their lawyers.”

“New high court look at gay marriage? Now legal in 36 states.” Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

Eighth Circuit sides with recent rulings of other federal appellate courts in limiting cy pres awards from proceeds of class action settlements: You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

“ACLU joins fight over Pennsylvania law curbing inmate speech”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Grand jury recommends criminal charges against Attorney General Kathleen Kane”: Craig R. McCoy and Angela Couloumbis of The Philadelphia Inquirer have a news update that begins, “The special prosecutor and grand jury investigating allegations that Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane leaked secret information to a newspaper have found evidence of wrongdoing and recommended that she be criminally charged, according to numerous people familiar with the decision.”

“Connecticut Supreme Court Rules State Can Force Chemotherapy On Teen”: The Hartford Courant has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Connecticut court rules against teen who didn’t want chemo.”

Winner, winner: The Indianapolis Star has an article headlined “Supreme Court backs home-school group in chicken dinner squabble” that begins, “After six years, tens of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees and a trip to the Supreme Court an argument that began over a chicken dinner has reached a conclusion.”

You can access Tuesday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Indiana at this link.

“Massachusetts court mulls case reviews after crime lab scandal”: Reuters has a report that begins, “Civil rights lawyers on Thursday asked Massachusetts’ top court for measures that would help thousands of people overturn drug convictions based on evidence tainted by a rogue crime lab scientist, in a case that could have national implications.”

“New Ten Commandments monument erected at Oklahoma state Capitol”: The Oklahoman has this news update.

The Tulsa World has a news update headlined “Ten Commandments monument reinstalled on Capitol grounds.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “10 Commandments monument: ‘Thou shalt be replaced.’”

“Court to decide Friday if it’ll hear gay marriage case”: The Detroit News has this report.

“Supreme Court’s 2015 term will impact 2016 race”: Jonathan Keim has this post today at the “Congress Blog” of The Hill.

“Drug firms take Alameda County law to U.S. Supreme Court”: Matthew Artz of The Oakland Tribune has an article that begins, “Drug companies are asking the nation’s highest court to throw out a first-of-its-kind Alameda County law that requires them to pay to collect and discard unwanted prescription pills.”

“Texas Abortion Clinic Rules Tested in Appeals Court”: Erik Eckholm has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Kansas to defend its antitrust powers before U.S. Supreme Court; USD 501 among plaintiffs in lawsuit alleging gas price-fixing”: The Topeka Capital-Journal has an article that begins, “The state of Kansas next week will present to the U.S. Supreme Court its argument for the right of individual states to regulate antitrust practices in the natural gas industry.”

“Voter ID law opponents ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case”: Jason Stein of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Groups ask Supreme Court to hear Wisconsin voter ID case.”

Yesterday, the ACLU issued a news release titled “ACLU Seeks Supreme Court Review in Wisconsin Voter ID Case.” You can view the cert. petition at this link.

At his “Election Law Blog,” Rick Hasen offers these comments on the cert. petition.

“Notorious R.B.G. Gets Her Own Biography, From the People Who Made Her a Meme”: Kat Stoeffel had this post yesterday at “The Cut” blog of New York magazine.

“Can Connecticut Force A Teenage Girl To Undergo Chemotherapy?” This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

The case is being orally argued at noon today in the Supreme Court of Connecticut.

“If this isn’t a taking, what is?” Today at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Will Baude has a post that begins, “Over the past several years, I have learned far more about the strange federal laws regulating raisins than I had ever expected to.”

“The Supreme Court: Draw back the curtain? No cameras may penetrate the sacred chamber for quite a while.” This article will appear in the January 10, 2015 issue of The Economist magazine.

“Supreme Court to meet again to decide on hearing gay marriage”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.