“Administration wants to slow health care challenge”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Obama administration says the Supreme Court should not permit Virginia to sidestep a federal appeals court in the state’s challenge to the health care law.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “U.S.: Wait on health care review.”

“MLB Umpire Injured by Foul Ball Awarded $775K in Suit Against Sporting Goods Company”: Zoe Tillman has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Appeal denied in school Confederate clothing case”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court has refused to rehear a suit by an Anderson County high school student who was punished for wearing Confederate clothing.”

You can access at this link today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denying rehearing en banc and the dissent therefrom of Circuit Judge Danny J. Boggs.

My earlier coverage of the original three-judge panel’s ruling can be accessed here.

“Senior judges keep 9th Circuit courthouses open; As federal caseloads soar and judgeships go unfilled because of a recalcitrant Congress, some retired judges continue to handle cases; Many are in their 80s”: Carol J. Williams has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Judge Posner Dissents on Mock Trials”: Jess Bravin has this post today at WSJ.com’s “Washington Wire” blog.

“Supreme Night Court: Judges Relax By Trying the Fictitious and the Dead; Justice Kennedy Puts Hamlet in the Dock; Lights, Action and, in This Case, Cameras.” Jess Bravin has this article today in The Wall Street Journal.