“Official: FOIA worries dampen requests for formal legal opinions.” Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post today.

“Big businesses back affirmative action before U.S. Supreme Court”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“U.S. appeals court strikes Florida law barring credit card surcharges”: Jim Saunders of the News Service of Florida has an article that begins, “Pointing to the First Amendment, a federal appeals court has struck down a Florida law that bars businesses from imposing a ‘surcharge’ on customers who pay with credit cards.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit — in which a senior judge sitting by designation from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit provided the deciding vote — at this link.

“Thomas Fitzgerald, former Illinois Supreme Court chief justice, dies at 74”: This obituary appeared in yesterday’s edition of The Chicago Tribune.

“Apple Thinks It Can Win This Case at the Supreme Court”: Philip Elmer-DeWit has this post online at Fortune.

You can view Apple’s petition for writ of certiorari at this link.

“Will State Courts Fill a Void on Voting Rights? As the U.S. Supreme Court backs away from protecting the right to vote, state judges are looking toward their constitutions.” Law professor Joshua A. Douglas has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

“Wanted: Supreme Court Justices With Grit.” Evan Bernick has this blog entry online at The Huffington Post.

“Porn scandal: Top prosecutor keeps releasing raunchy emails.” The Associated Press has this report from Pennsylvania.

“Arbitration Is Everywhere and Not All Bad”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“California Law Adds New Twist To Abortion, Religious Freedom Debate”: This audio segment appeared on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“Leaked DHS memo shows Obama might circumvent DAPA injunction”: On Monday, Ian M. Smith had this blog post online at The Hill.

“Just How Much Gerrymandering Is Unconstitutional? Wisconsin Plaintiffs Want the Supreme Court to Rule; Advocacy groups and plaintiffs pushing a Wisconsin lawsuit, as well as political scientists around the country, hope to establish a standard for just how much politicians should be allowed to gerrymander political maps.” Jack Fitzpatrick of National Journal has this report.

“Term limits considered for Florida Supreme Court justices, appeals judges”: The Miami Herald has this report.

“Scalia Sticks Up for a Child Pornography Convict: Nino still has a few surprises left in him.” Mark Joseph Stern has this Supreme Court dispatch online at Slate.

“Constitution Check: Which birth control case will the Supreme Court choose?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Impact of Pa. Supreme Court election will be ‘felt for the next 20 years'”: Wallace McKelvey has this front page article in today’s edition of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Chris Potter has a front page article headlined “Dems outspent, outhustled GOP in statewide judicial races, observers say.”

Melissa Daniels of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that “Donations from lawyers, labor fuel wins for Dems in Pa. Supreme Court race.”

And Steve Esack of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has an article headlined “Valley and Philly burbs sweep Democrats into state Supreme Court.”

“Liberty student’s mother asks U.S. Supreme Court to review delayed drowning decision”: Peter Hall has this article in today’s edition of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

“The Supreme Court’s opportunity to tackle sinister trends”: Columnist George F. Will has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“The Supreme Court Could Take Its First Abortion Case In 9 Years; Here are some clues to how the justices might approach a major case from Texas”: Samantha Lachman of The Huffington Post has this report today.

“Scalia Takes on Katzmann in Statutory Interpretation Smackdown”: Jess Bravin had this post yesterday at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”