“Courts Take On Campaign Finance Decision”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

Today in The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage reports that “Rulings split on campaign fundraising; A three-judge panel rejects a GOP challenge to limits on direct contributions to candidates or political parties; A D.C. appeals court rules that independent groups may spend as much as they wish.”

And The Washington Post reports that “Ruling allows contributions to activist groups for campaigns.”

“An Exceptional Nominee”: Sunday’s edition of The New York Times will contain an editorial that begins, “The first major appeals-court nomination fight of the Obama presidency may be shaping up over Goodwin Liu, a highly qualified teacher and legal scholar.”

“After a Supreme Court Loss, Washington’s Gun Laws Pass Muster”: John Schwartz has this article today in The New York Times.

And today’s edition of The Washington Post contains an article headlined “Federal judge upholds D.C. gun regulations; appeal expected.”

“Ruling on drug cases may spur appeals; Hundreds could seek new trial, early release”: The Boston Globe today contains an article that begins, “Hundreds of drug cases could be appealed and some convicted drug dealers could win early release because of a ruling by the state’s highest court yesterday that retroactively applies a new constitutional principle to drug trials held from 2005 to 2009, lawyers said. In a closely-watched, 6-to-1 decision, the Supreme Judicial Court moved to clear up confusion created last year when the US Supreme Court ruled that Massachusetts routinely violated the rights of defendants in drug trials by not having a chemist testify in person that a seized substance was in fact an illegal drug.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at this link.

“Obama makes 15 recess appointments, scolds GOP”: The Associated Press has this report.

And The White House today issued a news release headlined “President Obama Announces Recess Appointments to Key Administration Positions; Fifteen Appointees Have Waited an Average of 214 Days for Senate Confirmation.”

“States fighting healthcare law don’t have precedent on their side; A 2005 Supreme Court ruling citing the authority to regulate commerce poses a problem for suits claiming it’s unconstitutional for the federal government to force individuals to have insurance”: David G. Savage has this front page article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Appeals court upholds removal of Confederate plaques; Since-repealed provision dedicated state Supreme Court Building to Confederate veterans when it was built”: The Austin American-Statesman today contains an article that begins, “An Austin appellate court on Friday upheld the removal a decade ago of two politically charged plaques at the state Supreme Court building bearing the Confederate battle flag and seal.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Third Court of Appeals of Texas at this link.

“Republicans Dispute Charges of Stalling on Judicial Nominees”: FOXNews.com has this report.

And at Salon.com, Glenn Greenwald has a blog post titled “The horrible prospect of Supreme Court Justice Cass Sunstein.”

“Court tells poker players to fold ’em; State appeals panel overturns area judge’s ruling legalizing popular card game”: Today’s edition of The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania contains an article that begins, “For fans of Texas Hold ‘Em Poker it’s a case of read ’em and weep. In potentially precedent-setting ruling, a three-member panel of state Superior Court on Thursday overturned a county judge’s ruling that had declared the popular card game to be legal.”

You can access Thursday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania at this link.

I had this post linking to various of the appellate briefs and the trial court’s opinion back in October 2009 on the day that I argued the appeal.