“Supreme Court refuses to hear L.A.’s appeal to let it dump sludge”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“Registry law doesn’t apply to all sex offenders, Supreme Court rules; A sex offender who moved from Alabama to Indiana in 2004 does not have to register with authorities because his move predates the registry law Congress enacted in 2006, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday”: Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has this report.

“Ex-Somali official Mohamed Ali Samantar may be sued in U.S., Supreme Court rules”: Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.

And in today’s edition of The Daily Journal of California, Lawrence Hurley reports that “High Court Okays Torture Suit.”

“The National Law Journal Launches ‘Supreme Court Insider,’ New Independent E-Newsletter, featuring reporting by Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle”: ALM issued this news release today. Free registration for the newsletter can be accomplished via this link.

“Appeals court can’t rehear Katrina greenhouse-gas suit because of judges’ recusals”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans today contains an article that begins, “So many members of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals have recused themselves from a rehearing of a lawsuit that charges energy companies with contributing to the effects of Hurricane Katrina by emitting greenhouse gases that the court cannot conduct the rehearing. The result is a victory for the roughly 30 energy companies being sued, for it essentially reinstates the ruling of the U.S. District Court in Mississippi dismissing the case.”

My earlier coverage of last Friday’s Fifth Circuit order and the accompanying dissents appears at this link.

“Clinton representative reviewing Kagan documents”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The White House may have to negotiate with former President Bill Clinton and a Senate committee to resolve potential confidentiality concerns about releasing files from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s past, a top official told a senator Tuesday.”