“Justice Brennan: A Liberal Icon Gets Another Look.” This audio segment featuring Nina Totenberg appeared on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“War and Speech: Why hasn’t the war against terrorism produced any great First Amendment cases?” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Confirm Liu, quickly: Obama’s nominee for the U.S. 9th Circuit deserves an up-or-down vote.” This editorial will appear Saturday in The Los Angeles Times.

Today’s edition of The Des Moines Register contains an editorial entitled “End gridlock on judge appointments.”

And today in The Baltimore Sun, law professor Carl Tobias has an op-ed entitled “Congress must act to fill court vacancies; Justice is impeded as president’s nominations await votes.”

“NRA opens new front in gun rights battle; Lubbock lawsuits challenge limits on handguns for 18-to-20 year-olds”: Mike Ward has this article today in The Austin American-Statesman.

Earlier, The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published an article headlined “Lubbock teen challenges federal gun law.”

“Judge: Conn. home invasion death sentence is fair.” The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A Connecticut judge has decided that a jury was fair in deciding that Steven Hayes should be executed for a home invasion that left a woman and her two daughters dead.”

“NTSB studying wreckage from fatal crash; One of the victims was a BP executive, company confirms”: The News Herald of Panama City, Florida posted online this updated report yesterday afternoon.

“High court rules man did indeed indecently expose himself”: Yesterday’s edition of The Las Vegas Review-Journal contained this article reporting on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Nevada issued on Wednesday.

The Nevada Supreme Court’s opinion begins, “Respondent Marty Edward Castaneda is accused of intentionally and repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks while standing on the sidewalk in front of the county jail near Lewis Avenue and First Street in Las Vegas.”

A lower court ruled a Nevada statute providing that “A person who makes any open and indecent or obscene exposure of his or her person, or of the person of another, is guilty” of an offense was unconstitutionally vague. Nevada’s highest court disagreed, observing that “In the indecent exposure context, the common law used ‘person’ as a euphemism for penis.”

“High court handling of Wal-Mart appeal will have wider implications; The retailer argues that a lawsuit alleging discrimination against 1.5 million female employees is unfair; Whether the justices hear the case could affect future class-action suits”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.