“U.S. Appeals Ruling Striking Down Health-Care Law Over Insurance Mandate”: Bloomberg News has this report.

“Pa. high court OKs King of Prussia casino”: The Philadelphia Inquirer has this news update.

And The Bucks County Courier Times has a news update headlined “Court approves Valley Forge Casino.”

Today’s 3-2 ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania consists of a majority opinion and two dissenting opinions (here and here).

“Their Own Private Hell: Will the Supreme Court’s evolving view of privacy undermine the First Amendment?” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“AmEx Can’t Bar Merchants’ Class Actions, Appeals Court Says”: Bloomberg News has this report on a ruling that a two-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

This case, which the Second Circuit considered on GVR from the U.S. Supreme Court, is another in a line of cases addressing the interplay between arbitration and class action practice.

Transcript of the recent Third Circuit reargument en banc in which I participated: Today, the transcript of last month’s reargument en banc of the challenge to the class certification of the De Beers antitrust settlement was electronically filed, and you can access a copy of that oral argument transcript by clicking here. The audio of the en banc reargument remains available online via this link (81.5MB Windows Media audio file).

On February 25, 2011, I had a post titled “Handouts and demonstratives at an appellate oral argument” in which I linked to Class Counsel’s motion for leave to file the handout that Class Counsel had wanted to use at oral argument and the response that I filed to that motion.

Within hours after I filed that response, Class Counsel filed a document titled “Motion by Appellees to Strike Portions of Appellant Quinn’s Unauthorized Brief in the Guise of a Response to Motion to file Handouts.” In the alternative, Class Counsel’s motion stated that “ Appellees respectfully request leave to file a response to the points raised in the unauthorized brief and that there be no further reply by Quinn.”

Moments ago, and two days before my response to the motion to strike was due, the Third Circuit issued an order denying the motion to strike, allowing Class Counsel to file a response by a specified date, denying Class Counsel’s request that my client be prohibited from filing any reply, and consequently allowing my client to file a reply by a specified date.

“Al-Haramain appeal to be heard by 9th circuit court”: Today’s edition of The Mail Tribune of Medford, Oregon contains an article that begins, “Federal appeals court judges will convene Wednesday in Portland to hear arguments over whether the federal government violated the U.S. Constitution in designating Pete Seda’s defunct Ashland-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation chapter as a terrorist organization in 2004.”

“Calif. high court grapples with defining pimp”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Justices again rein in exemption to FOIA”: Tony Mauro has this news analysis online at the First Amendment Center.

“Iowa courts struggling with application of U.S. Supreme Court ruling; Family of man convicted in 1994 when he was 17 hope federal decision can lead to parole”: This article — the first in a two-part series — appears online at the web site of The Iowa Independent.

“High court ruling will establish groundwork for hepatitis outbreak trials”: Today’s edition of The Las Vegas Review-Journal contains an article that begins, “Nurses can do a lot of things, but they can’t testify as experts about the cause of a hepatitis C outbreak, an attorney told the Nevada Supreme Court on Monday.”

And in other news from Nevada, The Las Vegas Sun reports today that “Chief justice touts budget savings of Nevada Supreme Court.”

“Government Does An About Face on Amicus Brief in Rubashkin v. U.S.” The Washington Legal Foundation’s “Legal Pulse” blog has this post.

My earlier coverage of this matter can be accessed here.

“Top jurist urges review of ‘coercive’ plea bargaining system”: Kirk Makin has this article today in The Toronto Globe and Mail.

“Supreme Court Declines to Take Puerto Rico Canal Case”: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has this report.

“House Speaker Dean Cannon wants to expand state Supreme Court to 10 justices, two panels”: The St. Petersburg Times today contains an article that begins, “Under a dramatic overhaul of the state court system proposed by House Speaker Dean Cannon on Monday, Gov. Rick Scott could end up choosing three new Supreme Court justices.”

“Indian Island case could remain tied up in courts despite Supreme Court ruling”: Today’s edition of The Peninsula Daily News of Port Angeles, Washington contains an article that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Navy cannot use a particular exemption in the Freedom of Information Act to withhold explosives data and maps showing extent of damage if there were an explosion at Naval Magazine Indian Island.”

The Leader of Port Townsend, Washington reports today that “Supreme Court rules 8-1 against Navy in public records request for info on Naval Magazine Indian Island.”

The Seattle Times reports that “High court rules rules against Navy in Wash. state ammo depot case; A Lake Forest Park man’s U.S. Supreme Court case becomes a big win for freedom of information.”

And at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a post titled “Major transparency win at Supreme Court.”

“Sonia Sotomayor on Dating, Deciding, and Being the Newest Supreme Court Justice”: James Warren has this blog post online at The Atlantic, reporting on Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s appearance yesterday at Northwestern University School of Law.

The Daily Northwestern also mentions Justice Sotomayor’s visit in an article headlined “Schapiro: Sex toy scandal does not define Northwestern.”

“Next chapter in recopyright law: Supreme Court.” Today’s edition of The Denver Post contains an article that begins, “After a 10-year journey through the legal minor leagues, a Denver symphony conductor’s suit against the federal government has made it to law’s biggest stage.”

“What Are Your Chances of Winning on Appeal?” The March 2011 installment of my “On Appeal” column, which you can access by clicking here, appears in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

This month’s column begins, “One thing that the administrators who help run appellate courts are good at is statistics.”