“Surprise Appointment in SG’s Office”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Appointment For Solicitor General Not Expected Soon”: Lawrence Hurley has this article today in The Daily Journal of California.

“Judge lacks First Amendment right to insult litigants”: David L. Hudson Jr. has this report online at the First Amendment Center.

“Judge admits Khadr confessions defense team called torture”: Carol Rosenberg has this article today in The Miami Herald.

The Toronto Globe and Mail reports today that “Khadr’s confessions admissible, military judge rules; Decision to admit statements despite threats of torture dramatically strengthens prosecution’s case against Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay.”

The Los Angeles Times reports that “Youngest Guantanamo detainee to stand trial; Omar Ahmed Khadr, who was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002, will go before a military tribunal; He is accused of killing a U.S. soldier and wounding another.”

The Toronto Sun reports that “Court to choose who will rule on Khadr’s fate.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “First Guantanamo military tribunal under Obama gears up; A military judge ruled Monday that statements made by Omar Khadr, who is charged of killing a US soldier in Afghanistan, can be used in the trial, which is set to start Tuesday; Mr. Khadr’s lawyers say the statements were coerced.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Trial to begin for Guantanamo’s youngest prisoner.”

“Appeals court dismisses Oneida Indians’ 40-year-old land claim”: The Syracuse Post-Standard contains this article today.

The Oneida Daily Dispatch reports today that “Appeals court dismisses land claim.”

And The Utica Observer-Dispatch contains an article headlined “Court: No need for state to compensate Oneidas on land; Appeals judges reverse key element of ’07 claim ruling.”

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

“Appeals court orders judge to reverse ban on publishing suspect’s photos; The California Court of Appeal acted after Judge Hilleri G. Merritt last week barred the L.A. Times from printing photos of slaying suspect Alberd Tersargyan”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.