“Puerto Rico trip by Supreme Court justices angers politicians waiting for reapportionment opinion”: The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this update.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a news update headlined “State justices drop bombshell, hurry to tropics.”

And The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update headlined “GOP blasts Justice Baer for Pa. remapping comments.”

“Student Faces Town’s Wrath in Protest Against a Prayer”: This article will appear Friday in The New York Times.

“Obama, senators at odds over picks; ABA vetting shows White House wants Pryor for 11th Circuit, Cohen for district court; senators want opposite”: R. Robin McDonald has this article today in The Fulton County Daily Report.

“DOJ Defends Keeping Bin Laden Death Photos Secret”: Mike Scarcella has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Sotomayor connects Guam, Puerto Rico”: This article appears in Friday’s edition of The Pacific Daily News of Guam.

“11th Circuit asked to reinstate $19.6 million award against Hustler”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Hating on the Ninth Circuit: Funny But a Little Depressing.” Joe Palazzolo has this post at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”

“2d Cir. limits reach of NY law in long-awaited Chevron opinion”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“Appeals court rules against Chevron in Ecuador case”: Reuters has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court threw out an injunction that Chevron Corp won to block enforcement of what it considers a fraudulent, multi-billion dollar judgment in Ecuador for polluting the Amazon jungle.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “NY court: Judge can’t block $18B Ecuador judgment” that begins, “A federal appeals court says a New York judge overstepped his authority when he tried to ban enforcement of an $18 billion judgment against Chevron Inc. for environmental damage in Ecuador.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link. According to today’s Second Circuit opinion, “The story of the conflict between Chevron and residents of the Lago Agrio region of the Ecuadorian Amazon must be among the most extensively told in the history of the American federal judiciary.”

“Senators send White House names for judicial vacancies”: Bill Rankin has this article today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Obama’s justices: They are less enamored of government power.” Columnist Steve Chapman has this op-ed today in The Chicago Tribune.

“Pa. Supreme Court tosses out redrawn legislative districts; Justices consider legislative plan ‘contrary to law'”: This article appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

And The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports today that “Pa. Supreme Court tosses revised districts.”

“Consumer Group: Supreme Court Favors Businesses.” The Texas Tribune has an article that begins, “In the last 10 years, the majority of Texas Supreme Court decisions have favored corporate interests over consumers, and the panel of judges has repeatedly overstepped its authority by overturning jury verdicts and interpreting the law to benefit the rich, according to a scathing report set to be released today by consumer advocacy group Texas Watch.”

And the organization Texas Watch has issued a news release headlined “Report: Decade-Long Review Shows Texas Supreme Court Is Activist, Ideological.” You can access the report at this link.

“Guam welcomes Sotomayor”: The Pacific Daily News of Guam contains this article today.

“For a Veteran, Disability Payment Is Long in Coming”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

You can access the judgment order that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued earlier this month at this link.