“Newspaper Criticized for Report On Judge’s Web Site”: Josh Gerstein will have this article Tuesday in The New York Sun.

“It Isn’t Tilting in The Same Old Ways”: Yesterday in The Washington Post, Dahlia Lithwick had an op-ed that begins, “With just two weeks left in the Supreme Court’s term, everything we thought we knew about the Roberts court seems wrong.”

“First of California’s same-sex marriage licenses are issued”: The Los Angeles Times provides this news update.

The San Francisco Chronicle provides a news update headlined “Same-sex weddings start with union of elderly San Francisco couple.”

The Sacramento Bee provides a news update headlined “Gay marriages under way in Yolo County, San Francisco.”

And The San Jose Mercury News has an update headlined “Same-sex weddings begin in California.”

“East Coast panel to oversee misconduct probe of California Judge Alex Kozinski”: Scott Glover of The Los Angeles Times has this news update.

The Associated Press reports that “Judge’s wife calls Web porn story ‘outright lies’.”

This evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered” contained an audio segment entitled “Judges and Conflicts of Interest” (RealPlayer required).

And Jaikumar Vijayan of Computerworld has an article headlined “Federal judge lands in hot water over explicit images on Web site; Judge in L.A. recuses himself from obscenity trial, asks court officials to investigate him” in which I am quoted.

Elsewhere, at Wired’s “Threat Level” blog, Ryan Singel has a post titled “Wiretap Ruling Dies Slow Death As Congress Moves Towards Telecom Amnesty” that begins, “Somewhere on the hard drive of a judge from the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court there likely lives a file that’s way more interesting than the tasteless, porn videos found on the personal website of the circuit’s chief judge Alex Kozinski. Somewhere there’s an opinion from three judges that rules whether or not citizens can sue AT&T for violations of federal wiretapping law, or whether the government’s invocation of national security trumps the right to seek redress.”

At Townhall.com, Justin Hart has an essay entitled “Judging Pornography.”

And at WorldNetDaily, Joseph Farah has an essay entitled “Prosecute the perv judge.”

Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to conduct inquiry into Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski‘s online posting of pornographic images, mp3 files, and other materials: So advises a reporter for the Daily Journal of California. This assignment was made by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.

The Third Circuit’s Chief Judge is Anthony J. Scirica, and he would be deciding in the first instance what if anything to do with the judicial misconduct proceeding that Judge Kozinski apparently initiated with regard to himself last week.

The Third Circuit is viewed as one of the federal appellate courts that are most protective of First Amendment rights, as evidenced by television broadcasters’ having selected the Third Circuit as the forum to challenge the FCC’s fines for Janet Jackson’s indecent exposure during the Super Bowl halftime show several years back. Moreover, Chief Judge Scirica is correctly perceived as a personification of fairness, and he is particularly highly regarded throughout the entire federal judicial system for the amazing job he performed for many years heading up the revision process for the rules of procedure and evidence applicable to federal bankruptcy, district, and intermediate appellate courts.

Update: The Associated Press reports that “Judges named to head Kozinski inquiry.” According to the article, “U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, acting under rules for federal judges, named five judges from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Philadelphia, to do the investigation.” The article does not name the five judges, and I in the original portion of this post I have assumed that the Third Circuit’s Chief Judge is among those five judges.

Second update: The AP report, as revised, identifies the following five judges as assigned to the investigatory panel, “Named were the chief judge for the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, Anthony J. Scirica; two other 3rd Circuit Court judges, Marjorie O. Rendell and Walter K. Stapleton; and two chief U.S. District Court judges, Harvey Bartle III of Pennsylvania and Garrett Brown Jr. of New Jersey.” Judge Rendell is the wife of Pennsylvania’s governor, and Judge Stapleton, based in Wilmington, Delaware, is a senior status Third Circuit judge. Chief Judge Bartle serves on the Philadelphia-based U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

“Camus, Bob Dylan, and Naked Women Painted Like Cows”: Rachel Sklar and Ann Althouse are the participants in this episode of Bloggingheads.tv, posted online today. The diavlog was recorded on June 12, 2008.

The final two segments of the diavlog are titled “If a public figure likes porn, is that news?” and “Would McCain appoint hard-right Supreme Court justices?”

“Jurist’s career of firsts hits a milestone; Lynch being sworn in as head of appeals court”: The Boston Globe today contains this article about Sandra L. Lynch, who at 2 p.m. eastern time today was sworn in as the first female Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She also remains the only female judge to serve on the First Circuit.

And The Boston Herald reports today that “Judge Sandra L. Lynch breaks court’s glass ceiling.”

The First Circuit issued this related press release last month.

“Top court won’t review Exxon Indonesia lawsuit”: Reuters provides this report.

Wife says husband is “not into porn”; Husband is glad wife is willing to believe that: ABA Journal provides a post titled “Wife of 9th Circuit Chief Judge Says Her Husband Is ‘Not Into Porn.’”

As I noted in this post from Saturday, ABA Journal magazine has posted online a lengthy article by Terry Carter headlined “Risque Images, Music Tied to 9th Circuit Chief’s Site Raises Ethics Questions.”

In connection with that lengthy article, the ABA Journal has posted online a remarkable letter (back-up copy posted here) dated October 12, 2007 from L. Ralph Mecham, former director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, which accuses Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski of having committed a criminal offense in 2001 against the federal judiciary’s computer system that constituted a felony under federal law.

“Supreme Court to rule on whether Ashcroft can be sued; A Pakistani man who was arrested in Long Island after the Sept. 11 attacks charges that he was illegally detained; Justices will examine whether high-ranking officials are immune from such lawsuits”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this news update.

And James Vicini of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court to decide Sept. 11 abuse case.”

“Lawyering and the Craft of Judicial Opinion Writing: The Second Conversation with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the Law of the Constitution.” On the evening of July 30, 2008 in Malibu, California, the Pepperdine University School of Law will host this event (you can also access a PDF file of the program’s brochure by clicking here).

Participating in the event will be Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.; Tenth Circuit Judge Michael W. McConnell; Walter E. Dellinger III; and Kenneth W. Starr. Law Professor Douglas W. Kmiec will serve as the program’s host and moderator.

Based on this description of the program, it looks to be quite interesting. Online registration can be accomplished via a link featured on this web page.

“Blawg Review #164”: Access it here at the blog “cearta.ie,” an Irish law blog.

“Second thoughts on Kozinski”: Mark Obbie today has this follow-up post at his “LawBeat” blog.

Today is day two of the McClatchy Newspapers series “Guantanamo: Beyond the Law.” Today’s lead article is headlined “U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases.” And today’s other articles are headlined “Documents undercut Pentagon’s denial of routine abuse” and “Soldiers blame lack of training, support for Bagram abuse.”

Yesterday, I had this post linking to the articles from day one of the series.

The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Washington state mulls assisted suicide measure” and “Internet suicide case goes to federal court.”

“Court to rule on right to sue Cabinet officers”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Today’s U.S. Supreme Court Order List and opinions in argued cases: The Court today issued opinions in two argued cases.

1. Today’s first opinion issued in Florida Dept. of Revenue v. Piccadilly Cafeterias, Inc., No. 07-312. You can access the opinion at this link and the oral argument transcript at this link.

2. And today’s second and final opinion issued in Dada v. Mukasey, No. 06-1181. You can access the opinion at this link and the oral argument transcript at this link.

The Court will next issue opinions in argued cases on Thursday, at 10 a.m. eastern time.

You can access today’s Order List at this link. The Court granted review in three cases and requested the views of the Solicitor General in one case.

The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Justices rule in favor of state tax collectors“; “Top court eases rules for foreigners to try to stay in US“; “Court to rule in lawsuit vs. FBI head, ex-AG“: and “Court rejects appeal on Ill. horse slaughter ban.”

At 10 a.m. eastern time, “SCOTUSblog” will be live-blogging today’s U.S. Supreme Court opinions and orders: You can access the post by clicking here.

“Alex Kozinski’s Wife Speaks Out”: This post appears today at “Patterico’s Pontifications.”

And Law Professor Lawrence Lessig offers some additional thoughts in this post at “Lessig Blog.”