“Supreme Court Reporter Linda Greenhouse Retires”: This audio segment (RealPlayer required) appeared on yesterday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday.”

“Judge bars sexy tomes from Supermax inmate; Mailroom employees had withheld sexually explicit books and magazines from the prisoner under a 1996 law”: The Denver Post today contains an article that begins, “Mark Jordan won’t be receiving magazines or books that contain nudity or sexually explicit material now that a U.S. district judge has decided keeping Jordan from receiving those images in prison does not violate his constitutional rights. Jordan, a prisoner at the ultra-high security Supermax in Florence, sued the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and challenged the Ensign Amendment, a 1996 law designed to prevent federal prison employees from spending resources on delivering pornographic materials to inmates.”

I have posted online at this link last Friday’s ruling by Chief Judge Edward W. Nottingham of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

“State Supreme Court weighs parole for killers; Questions before the justices: When can a killer reenter society? How much authority should a governor have? Does a model prison record atone for a horrendous crime?” The Los Angeles Times contains this article today.

“Local lawsuit tests high court’s ruling that lifts D.C. gun ban”: This article appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Available online from law.com: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal reports that “After High Court Ruling, Exxon Valdez Families Ask if They Can Collect Millions in Interest.”

Pamela A. MacLean of The National Law Journal has an article headlined “Fearing Political Backlash, Judges Decide to Go Public; Nasty campaigns and California’s gay marriage ruling lead to first forum of its kind.”

And an article reports that “N.Y. Court Defines Test for Obtaining Identities Behind Online Posts; Ruling is a case of first impression in New York.”

“2,691 Decisions”: Today in The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse has an essay in the Week in Review section that begins, “Sometime during the first of my nearly 30 years reporting on the Supreme Court, a distinct visual image of a Supreme Court term took hold in my mind and never let go. The nine-month term was a mountain. My job was to climb it.”

She will be participating in this “Talk to the Newsroom” feature during this upcoming week.

“Colorado Voters Will Be Asked When ‘Personhood’ Begins”: The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, “A proposal to define a fertilized human egg as a person will land on Colorado’s ballot this November, marking the first time that the question of when life begins will go before voters anywhere in the nation.”

“Supreme Court finds history is a matter of opinions; Justices rely more than ever on the idea of constitutional ‘original intent’ in ruling on cases this year — yet their decisions are still split”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.