“Anti-gay church’s lawyer study in contradictions”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Judge’s hometown, legal community stunned by arrest”: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this news update.

“Supreme Court debates privacy rights and government’s role as employer”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this news update.

Joan Biskupic of USA Today has a news update headlined “High court hears scientists’ challenge to background checks.”

And Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Supreme Court weighs need for background checks for NASA scientists; Top scientists at a NASA lab say government background checks aren’t necessary and violate their right to privacy; At a Supreme Court hearing Tuesday, justices questioned their position.”

“Innocent on Death Row — This week at the Supreme Court: Can a man exonerated of capital murder sue the prosecutor who convicted him?” John Hollway has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Court to rule on tuition break for illegals”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has a news update that begins, “The issue of benefits for illegal immigrants landed at the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, as out-of-state students challenged a law allowing anyone who has graduated from a California high school to pay in-state tuition at a public university, regardless of immigration status.”

“LA County defends child abuse listing”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update that begins, “A lawyer for Los Angeles County told the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday that the failure to remove a wrongly accused couple from California’s index of reported child abusers was the state’s responsibility, not the county’s.”

“Justices skeptical of Caltech scientists’ privacy claims; The Supreme Court hears the case of 28 scientists working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who are challenging the government’s use of background checks to learn about their personal lives, including past drug use”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this news update.

And Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court grapples with NASA privacy questions.”

Update: At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument recap: Caution on privacy.”

You can access the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in NASA v. Nelson, No. 09-530, by clicking here.

“Steven Hayes Guilty On 16 Of 17 Counts; Eligible For Death Penalty In Cheshire Home Invasion Case”: The Hartford Courant has this news update.

The New York Times has a news update headlined “Triple Murder Case Yields Convictions on 16 of 17 Counts.”

The New Haven Register has a news update headlined “Hayes guilty of capital felony; Faces death penalty in Petit slayings.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Conn. man thanks jurors in deadly home invasion.”

“High Court to Hone in on 9th Circuit; A Third of Cases to Be Reviewed This Term Arise From Nation’s Biggest Circuit”: Lawrence Hurley had this article yesterday in The Daily Journal of California.

“Supreme Court’s conservative majority is making its mark; The conservative justices’ influence on constitutional law isn’t likely to end soon, no matter who wins the White House in 2012”: Erwin Chemerinsky had this op-ed yesterday in The Los Angeles Times.

“All Eyes on Kagan as Court Opens Its Term”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that “On her first day as justice, Kagan finds a comfort zone.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court starts new term with Elena Kagan on bench; The newest justice will have to skip many early cases because she worked on them as solicitor general.”

Joan Biskupic of USA Today reports that “Justices slip into routine as they do robes; Kagan fits in on first day of high court.”

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers reports that “On first day, Kagan fills chamber with queries, comments.”

And Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “Justice Kagan makes her mark on day one, then has to go.”

“Supreme Court set to hear NASA privacy case”: The Associated Press has this report.

The Pasadena Star-News reports today that “Supreme Court to hear JPL privacy case.”

And in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, Dennis V. Byrnes has an op-ed entitled “The moon, Mars and now the Supreme Court: A Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist whose career started on the Apollo program in 1968 heads to Washington to fight background checks for NASA’s JPL staffers.”

“Federal judge charged with buying drugs from stripper”: This article appears today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The New York Times reports today that “Federal Judge Faces Charges in Drug Case.”

The Newnan (Ga.) Times-Herald contains an article headlined “Drug, firearms charges against Judge Jack Camp.”

The Fulton County Daily Report contains an article headlined “Alleged Liaisons With Stripper Lead to Judge’s Arrest on Drug, Gun Charges; FBI: Senior judge was implicated by stripper who recorded their conversations.”

And CNN.com reports that “U.S. judge bought drugs for stripper, feds say.”

“Anti-gay church, grieving father square off over free speech, privacy”: Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument preview: Protest vs. privacy.”

“Junk car or work of art? Supreme Court declines free speech fight; The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take the case of a Texas businessman who says a 1988 Oldsmobile in front of his store is art, not subject to a city junk-vehicle ordinance.” Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has this report.

“Hayes jury resumes work today after asking questions on evidence in Petit slayings”: The New Haven Register contains this article today.

The Hartford Courant reports today that “Steven Hayes Jurors End Deliberations For Day, To Return Tuesday Morning.” The newspaper posted the jury charge online at this link.

And The New York Times reports that “Deliberations Begin in Connecticut Murder Case.”

“An Illegal Search, by GPS”: This editorial appears today in The New York Times.