Programming note: I will be traveling during the day Friday to Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a result, additional posts will not appear here until Friday night.

In the interim, as is often the case while I am traveling, additional appellate-related retweets will appear on this blog’s Twitter feed.

“No Waiver of Arbitration Clause Even After Years of Litigation, Because Arbitration Demand, Pre-AT&T v. Concepcion, Would Have Been Futile”: Bruce D. Greenberg has this post at his “New Jersey Appellate Law” blog about a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today.

“Ruling loosens ban on owning guns after minor convictions”: The Associated Press has this report.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s en banc Third Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“Appeals court has concerns over possible Gitmo video release”: Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has this report.

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit via this link (46.6 MB mp3 audio file).

“Subway ‘Footlong’ settlement gets appeals court grilling”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit via this link (11.0 MB mp3 audio file).

“U.S. drops corruption charges against former Virginia governor, wife”: Reuters has this report.

And Jim Nolan of The Richmond Times-Dispatch has an article headlined “Bob McDonnell reflects on the end of his ordeal.”

“Biden, Supreme Court nominee on Hill to pressure GOP”: Alan Fram of The Associated Press has this report.

“E&Y asks for SCOTUS review of employee class waivers, days after Epic petition”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.

“Constitution Check: Do online publishers have a right to gather news?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Why is Judicial Biography So Hard To Write?” At the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation, Peter Conti-Brown has a post that begins, “I don’t envy the reading load that William Domnarski undertook on his way to writing his biography of Richard Posner.”

“How One of DC’s Most Powerful Judges Got Accused of Rape: Richard Roberts was the star prosecutor who helped lock up Marion Barry, then became DC’s chief federal judge; Now comes the revelation that Roberts slept with a 16-year-old witness in a career-making case 35 years ago; As his accuser doubles down, and an ethics probe plods on, here’s a look at how Roberts rose to the top in spite of his past.” Marisa M. Kashino of Washingtonian magazine has this article.

“The Yiddish phrase ‘Tracht gut, vet zein gut!’ translates to ‘Think good, and it will be good!'” So begins today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a case captioned In re Tracht Gut, LLC.

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Remarks at Georgetown Law”: C-SPAN has posted online at this link the video of yesterday’s event.

“Texas appeals judge questions fairness of life without parole”: Chuck Lindell of The American-Statesman has this report.

“Did Orange County’s Justice System Imprison an Innocent Man for Murder?” R. Scott Moxley of OC Weekly has this report.

“Justice Elena Kagan on Supreme Court and Constitutional Law”: C-SPAN recently posted this video online.

“Ginsburg suggests Senate should act on Garland nomination, but says it cannot be forced to”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“Should ex-Philly cop suspected of sharing child porn be forced to divulge computer passwords?” In today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chris Palmer has a front page article that begins, “If police think someone has child pornography on his computer, should investigators be able to force him to provide his passwords — or would that violate his constitutional right against self-incrimination? That issue was at the heart of an appellate hearing Wednesday in federal court in Philadelphia in the case of Francis Rawls, a former Philadelphia police sergeant, who has not been charged with a crime but who has been in custody for nearly a year in contempt of court for failing to unlock his encrypted electronic devices.”

Once the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit posts online the audio of yesterday’s oral argument, I will link to it.

Update: You can access the audio of yesterday’s Third Circuit oral argument via this link (24.2 MB mp3 audio file).