“Appeals court agrees Farmers Branch law on illegal immigrants is unconstitutional”: This article appears today in The Dallas Morning News.

The Associated Press reports that “Court upholds ban on Texas immigrant housing law.”

And Terry Baynes of Reuters reports that “5th Circuit rejects housing immigration law.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“It’s Not About the Law, Stupid: Forget precedent. Ignore Scalia’s musings. Next week’s health care argument before the Supreme Court is all about optics, politics, and public opinion.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

First Circuit affirms criminal conviction for threatening employees of First Circuit Clerk’s Office: You can access today’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit at this link.

“For Democracy’s Sake, Supreme Court, Let the Cameras In; It’s by far the most closely-watched Supreme Court case of its generation, yet only a miniscule fraction of Americans will be able to see it live”: Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Boy’s ‘wish’ to blow up school warrants suspension, court says”: Reuters has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court upholds suspension for NY boy, 10.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

“Feds consider closing some courtrooms”: The Associated Press has this report. You can view a list of the locations under consideration for closure at this link.

“Argument preview: Health care, Part III — Beyond the mandate.” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey have an op-ed entitled “The Supreme Court Weighs ObamaCare: Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce is broad but not limitless.”

At Politico.com, law professor Daniel Conkle has an essay entitled “Health care and constitutional Armageddon.”

And at The Huffington Post, Doug Kendall has an essay entitled “A Viper In the Grass: Could the Supreme Court Find Medicaid, And Programs Like It, Unconstitutional?”

“Cruz touts record as state attorney; critics say he takes too much credit”: Today’s edition of The Austin American-Statesman contains an article that begins, “Guns, prayer, abortion. U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz tackled them all during his five-year stint as Texas’ chief appellate lawyer.”

“Sources: One of Gov. Christie’s Supreme Court nominees lacks votes to advance past Senate panel.” This article appears today in The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger.

“Supreme Court should lift its blackout; The high court’s ban on live TV coverage of oral arguments is a national shame”: Law professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Eric J. Segall have this op-ed today in The Los Angeles Times.

And in related news coverage, The Hill has a blog post titled “Sen. Sessions blocks bill that would force cameras in Supreme Court for health care arguments.”

“Court Appears to Be Wary Hearing Free-Speech Case”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that “Supreme Court appears to side with Secret Service agents who protected Cheney.”

The Denver Post reports that “Denver lawyers address Supreme Court in case over Secret Service arrest.”

And Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Does Secret Service protection trump speech rights? Supreme Court hears case; A Colorado man arrested in 2006 after telling Vice President Cheney what he thought of the Iraq war alleges that Secret Service agents retaliated against him for his opinions.”