“How Far Can Those Wild, Crazy Tobacco Jurors Go?” Bloomberg News columnist Ann Woolner has an essay that begins, “What some might call the jurors-gone-wild show hit the U.S. Supreme Court this week in a case as closely watched by business and consumer groups as certain spring-break videos are by young men.”

“The ‘Good Judge’: Antonin Scalia’s two decades on the Supreme Court.” Terry Eastland will have this cover story in the November 13, 2006 issue of The Weekly Standard.

“Democrat-Controlled Senate Would Be Disastrous for Judicial Nominees”: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) has this essay online at Human Events.

“Kennedy’s Choice: The Roberts Court Takes on Abortion.” Linda Greenhouse will have this interesting article in the Week in Review section of Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

In February 2006, I previewed these cases in an installment of my law.com “On Appeal” column headlined “Congress Puts ‘Partial-Birth’ Abortion Back on the Supreme Court’s Agenda.”

“Hinckley’s Trips May Change; Aging Parents Can’t Supervise Adequately, Prosecutors Say”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

The Houston Chronicle is reporting: In today’s newspaper, Patty Reinert has an article headlined “More take the rehab way out; Fastow is the latest corporate convict to seek counseling to cut time off sentence.”

Harvey Rice reports that “Witness says truck driver ignored immigrants’ pleas; Passenger tells court she begged Williams to let the people out.”

And in other news, “Appeals court restores vote fraud prosecutions; Some Democrats complain that cases target minorities, seniors.”

“T-shirt order: ‘I am a registered sex offender’; Unusual punishment for repeat offender.” This article appears today in The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware.

“German Detainee Questions His Country’s Role”: The New York Times today contains an article that begins, “During the four and a half years he languished in American prison camps in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Murat Kurnaz claims to have been beaten, locked alone for months, dunked in water, sexually humiliated and hung from the ceiling by chains — all of which the Pentagon denies.”

“The Anti-Kelo Wave: Voters are taking up the Supreme Court’s challenge.” The Wall Street Journal contains this editorial today.

“Supreme Court to Return to Abortion”: The Associated Press provides this report.

And James Vicini of Reuters reports that “Top court to hear major abortion test cases.”

“The fall of America’s meanest law firm: Milberg Weiss, the lawsuit factory that took corporations for $45 billion, is in the feds’ cross hairs.” This article will appear as the cover story of the November 13, 2006 issue of Fortune magazine.

“Yes, Virginia, This Is a Terrible Amendment: Why the gay marriage ban is bad for all Virginians.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Fox newsman offers peek into abortion records; Phill Kline, who was interviewed by O’Reilly, later said he wasn’t the source of the leak”: The Kansas City Star today contains an article that begins, “Bill O’Reilly said on his Fox News show Friday that he had received information about medical records of abortions performed at clinics under investigation by Attorney General Phill Kline. Kline, who appeared on ‘The O’Reilly Factor,’ said after the show that he was not O’Reilly’s source for the records and that no one in his office was either.”

“S. Dakota not so sure about gay-marriage ban”: The Los Angeles Times today contains an article that begins, “This is an unlikely state to blaze a trail for gay rights.”

And in other news from South Dakota, The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls today contains articles headlined “$750,000 donation might be illegal, group alleges; Abortion-ban foes file complaint” and “Indians rally against ban on abortion; Law derided as effort to ‘Christianize.’”

“U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons; Court Is Asked to Bar Detainees From Talking About Interrogations”: The Washington Post today contains a front page article that begins, “The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the ‘alternative interrogation methods’ that their captors used to get them to talk.”

And The New York Times reports today that “C.I.A. Wants Prison Tactics Secret.”

“Former justice warns of threat to judiciary; O’Connor tells of political assault on court’s autonomy”: Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, “Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor told a San Francisco audience Friday that judges are under political attack nationwide, and a ruling she endorsed four years ago is partly to blame.”

“Supreme Court to Revisit Federal Sentencing Issues”: Linda Greenhouse has this article today in The New York Times.