“Judicial nominations pile up, and parties blame each other”: Rob Hotakainen of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“Woman left broke by divorce payout takes fight to Supreme Court”: Monday’s edition of The Times of London contains an article that begins, “A British woman left almost penniless by divorce goes to the Supreme Court this week in a case that will test London’s reputation as the divorce capital of the world.”

“Nine years and Hispanic farmers still waiting for discrimination suit ruling”: This article appeared yesterday in The Fresno Bee.

“More districts use income, not race, as basis for busing”: Monday’s edition of USA Today will contain an article that begins, “Struggling to improve schools that have large populations of poor and minority students and under legal pressure to avoid racial busing, a small but growing group of school districts are integrating schools by income.”

“California killer’s case back before Supreme Court; Fernando Belmontes was sentenced to death in 1982 for murdering a 19-year-old woman; The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned his sentence three times”: David G. Savage will have this article in Monday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

Papers of note available online from SSRN: Law professor Suja A. Thomas has an essay entitled “The New Summary Judgment Motion: The Motion to Dismiss Under Iqbal and Twombly” (via “Legal Theory Blog“).

And law professor Penelope Pether has an article entitled “Constitutional Solipsism: Toward a Thick Doctrine of Article III Duty; or Why the Federal Circuits’ Nonprecedential Status Rules are (Profoundly) Unconstitutional” (via “Legal Theory Blog“).

“Father wins a family by fighting his firing”: Today’s edition of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina contains an article that begins, “Jim Dotson spent the past six years seeking the truth, not only from his employer who he charged wrongly fired him, but for himself and his family. In October, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his former employer’s appeal, handing Dotson a victory even as it cost him his career, his home and most of his life savings. Once a fast-rising division salesman for Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company based in New York, Dotson was fired in 2003. The firing came just days after he and his wife, Ann, returned to Raleigh from Russia with a 13-month-old adopted baby girl with chronic upper respiratory infections.”

“Bringing justice to them all: Thousands of cases are overturned, thanks to a family that refused to give up.” This article about the juvenile court scandal in northeastern Pennsylvania appears today in The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

“Court hears appeal on Mass. wine shipment law”: The Associated Press has this report on a case to be argued tomorrow before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

“U.S. Supreme Court: Knots could tighten around abortion.” Michael Kirkland of United Press International has this report.

“Attacks drown out issues in state Supreme Court race”: This article appears today in The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

And The Associated Press reports that “Pa. high court race yields cash, but not clarity.”

“‘Thug’ senator Alan Simpson condemns teen convicts’ life sentence”: The Times of London contains this article today.

“Privacy Looms Over Gay Rights Vote”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

“Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit.” The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out.”