“Up in Their Grill: The Westboro Baptist Church politely shows the court how to be obnoxious.” Dahlia Lithwick has this Supreme Court dispatch online at Slate.

“Justices Hear Arguments in Funeral-Protest Case”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news update.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Court considers Westboro Baptist Church’s anti-gay protests at military funerals.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Justices appear set to limit funeral protests; In a case testing the boundaries of free speech, the Supreme Court hears arguments in the matter of a dead Marine’s family that was targeted by protesters; Justice Breyer says the court’s ruling will have an impact on the Internet, since it tests whether personal attacks can lead to lawsuits.”

The Washington Times has a news update headlined “Supreme Court hears arguments on church protests at military funerals.”

The York Daily Record has a news update headlined “In Snyder v. Phelps, court put lawyers on the spot; Supreme Court justices asked a flurry of questions to try to figure out the broader implications of the case.”

Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “Justices hear case of anti-gay protests at military funerals.”

And this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered” contained an audio segment entitled “High Court Weighs Protests At Military Funerals” featuring Nina Totenberg.

“Westboro Baptist Church’s Surreal Day in Court”: Online at The Atlantic, law professor Garrett Epps has a blog post that begins, “More often than one would expect, oral argument in front of the Supreme Court resembles a Celebrity Deathmatch between Lionel Hutz of The Simpsons and Ned Racine of Body Heat. Lawyers with no Supreme Court experience sometimes insist on going to the Show. The result can be a halting hour of argument that sometimes resembles the 1945 World Series, between two teams so war-depleted that sportswriter Warren Brown said, ‘I don’t think either one of them can win it.'”

“Justice Alito has emerged as the Court’s most insightful and strategic questioner at argument.” So writes CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford at her “Crossroads” blog in a post titled “Funeral Protests and a Free Speech Free-for-All.”

“Brewer opposes foreign countries’ participation in appeal”: Today’s edition of The Arizona Republic contains an article that begins, “Gov. Jan Brewer filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Tuesday opposing efforts by nearly a dozen foreign countries to weigh in on Arizona’s new immigration law.”

“Lawsuit over immigrants’ tuition goes before state Supreme Court; The panel is reviewing a lower court’s ruling that federal law preempts a state law giving illegal immigrants who graduate from California high schools the much lower in-state tuition rate at public colleges”: Maura Dolan has this article today in Los Angeles Times.

And The Fresno Bee reports today that “Valley students get supreme lesson in justice; California Supreme Court special outreach holds session in Fresno.”

“Convictions on 16 Counts in Triple-Murder Case”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an article that begins, “A former parolee with a long history as a petty criminal was convicted of capital crimes on Tuesday for his part in a nighttime home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., three years ago that left a woman and her two daughters dead.”

Today’s edition of The Hartford Courant contains articles headlined “Jury Finds Steven Hayes Guilty, Now Must Decide If He Lives Or Dies” and “In Cheshire, Relieved To Hear A Guilty Verdict; Sentiment Tends To Favor Death Sentence.” In addition, columnist Helen Ubinas has an essay entitled “Survivor of Cheshire Home Invasion Has Lessons For Us All.”

The New Haven Register contains an article headlined “Life or Death: Hayes found guilty on 16 counts, penalty phase of trial next” and an editorial entitled “Death penalty for Hayes.”

The Wall Street Journal reports that “Death Penalty Possible in Connecticut.”

And The Associated Press has an article headlined “Could Conn. home-invasion killer escape execution?”

“Justice Brennan forever changed the court’s architecture”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

“Court seems skeptical on $14 million judgment”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Supreme Court may reconsider a $14 million judgment to a former death row inmate who accused New Orleans prosecutors of withholding evidence to help convict him of murder.”

“Justices struggle with free speech, funeral protests”: Joan Biskupic of USA Today has this news update.

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has a news update headlined “High Court Hears Free-Speech Case.”

The Topeka Capital-Journal has a news update headlined “Justices question picket practices.”

James Vicini of Reuters reports that “Court considers anti-gay protests at funerals.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Church’s Funeral Protest Tests Free-Speech Limits at U.S. Supreme Court.”

At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument recap: Does emotion win?”

And The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Westboro Baptist Church case draws protesters at Supreme Court.”

You can access the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Snyder v. Phelps, No. 09-751, by clicking here.

“A look at the Supreme Court on the first day of their new term with Jeffrey Toobin of CNN & ‘The New Yorker’ and Adam Liptak of ‘The New York Times'”: You can access the video of Monday’s broadcast of “The Charlie Rose Show” by clicking here.

“High court struggles with funeral protest case”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Judge Bars Major Witness From Civilian Terrorism Trial”: The New York Times has a news update that begins, “Minutes before a major terrorism trial was about to begin, a federal judge barred prosecutors in Manhattan on Wednesday from using a key witness. The government had acknowledged it learned about the witness from the defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, while he was being interrogated while being held in a secret overseas jail run by the C.I.A. The ruling by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan would be a setback for the Obama administration’s goal of trying former detainees in civilian courts because it would limit the kinds of evidence that prosecutors can introduce.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Judge bans key witness from detainee’s NY trial.”

“Lawsuit against Fred Phelps poses First Amendment test”: This article appears today in The Kansas City Star.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports today that “Phelpses hit streets in D.C.; More than 20 followers picket White House before Wednesday’s oral arguments.”

The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania contains an article headlined “Testing the boundaries of free speech; An area attorney with a role in today’s arguments calls a church’s protest at the military funeral of a York man’s son a ‘vicious attack” on a grieving family.”

Today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment entitled “Family Asks High Court To Limit Funeral Protests” featuring Nina Totenberg.

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “High court to hear military funeral protest case.”

And The Los Angeles Times contains an editorial entitled “The right to speak offensively: The Supreme Court should rule in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church, which protests at the funerals of soldiers, saying that their deaths are God’s punishment for tolerance of homosexuality.”

“Prosecuting offices’ immunity tested; Supreme Court set to hear a case that considers whether prosecutors’ employers can be held accountable for not preventing misconduct”: Brad Heath and Kevin McCoy have this article today in USA Today.

“Stubborn high court resists cameras; you miss history”: Tony Mauro has this op-ed today in USA Today.

“Courts Deal With Fallout of Judge’s Arrest on Drug and Gun Charges; Chief justice taps temporary judge to oversee case against Judge Jack T. Camp”: R. Robin McDonald has this article today in the Fulton County Daily Report.

Today’s edition of The Newnan (Ga.) Times-Herald contains an article headlined “Lawyer: Camp ‘deeply concerned.’”

And The Associated Press has an article headlined “FBI: Stripper, drugs, guns and judge don’t mix.”

“Challenge to Background Checks Falters”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

And Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal reports that “Justices Consider Limits on Employer Background Checks in NASA Case.”

“All Federal Circuit Vacancies Now Have Nominees, but Quick Confirmation Unlikely”: Sheri Qualters of The National Law Journal has this report.