“Court OKs ban on day laborers soliciting work”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this news update.

The Daily Breeze of Torrance, California has a news update headlined “Court gives Redondo Beach OK to arrest day laborers soliciting work.”

Carol J. Williams of The Los Angeles Times has a blog post titled “Day-labor crackdown in Redondo Beach is legal, appeals court rules.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Court OKs Calif. city’s day laborer crackdown.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link. This case may be a strong candidate for rehearing en banc as the dispositive vote on the three-judge panel came from a U.S. District Judge sitting by designation.

“It’s Complicated: David Souter finally tells Americans to grow up.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Police Surveillance Records May Stay Secret, Judges Say”: The “City Room” blog of The New York Times has a post that begins, “Reversing a lower court ruling, a panel of federal judges on Wednesday decided that the city can keep secret roughly 1,800 pages of records of police surveillance leading up to the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York.”

And The Associated Press reports that “NY appeals court tosses ruling on RNC surveillance.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

“Court rules against Ky. Commandment displays”: The Cincinnati Enquirer has a news update that begins, “Displays of the Ten Commandments in two Kentucky courthouses ran afoul of the U.S. Constitution because their purpose was to promote religion, an appeals court in Cincinnati ruled Wednesday.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Split court upholds ban on 10 Commandments in Ky.”

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

“Executioner: Death by firing squad is ‘100 percent justice.'” CNN.com has this report.

“Interest groups see opportunity in Kagan fight”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Kagan’s Attitude Toward Military Faces Scrutiny”: This audio segment featuring Nina Totenberg appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

At WSJ.com’s “Law Blog,” Jess Bravin has a post titled “Kagan’s Brushes With the Boldfaced (While a Supreme Court Clerk).”

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” David Ingram has a post titled “Dellinger: Kagan is no Souter.”

“Justices Block Matching Funds for Candidates in Arizona”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

Today in The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that “Arizona blocked from subsidizing state candidates facing privately funded foes.”

In The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage and Jennifer Martinez report that “Supreme Court curbs Arizona public funding in elections; The emergency order, coming in the midst of the state primary campaign, prevents Arizona from giving additional funds to candidates who forgo private financing and are vastly outspent by rivals.”

The Arizona Republic reports that “Supreme Court blocks Arizona candidates’ matching funds.”

And The Arizona Daily Star reports that “Clean Elections funds blocked.”