In Saturday’s edition of The New York Times: The newspaper will contain articles headlined “Behind Life-and-Death Fight, a Rift That Began Years Ago“; “Schiavo in Her ‘Last Hours,’ Father Says Amid Appeals“; and “Schiavo’s Condition Holds Little Chance of Recovery.”

“Circuit Court again rebuffs Schiavo parents”: Lyle Denniston has this post online at “SCOTUSblog.”

And CNN.com reports that “Judges deny Schiavo parents again; Schindlers to Governor Bush: ‘Please do something.’” The CNN article reports that “After the federal panel’s decision Friday night, the Schindlers appealed to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene, calling what happened ‘judicial homicide.'”

“Art foundation wants high court to intervene in dispute over move”: The Associated Press provides this report.

“In Solomon’s Absence: The Schiavo case made bad law and good politics.” Daniel Henninger has this essay today in The Wall Street Journal.

Is this stick longer than that rock is heavy? Today, Tenth Circuit Judge Michael W. McConnell issued an interesting concurring opinion in a case that presents the question “whether the State of Kansas may require members of a Kansas Indian tribe to register and title their vehicles with the State if they drive off-reservation on Kansas roads and highways.” The opinion reminds me that you just don’t see that many cars titled in Singapore driving on highways in the United States.

Available online from law.com: An article reports that “Schiavo Case Demonstrates Growing Tension Between Courts, Congress.”

Tony Mauro reports that “Top Attorneys Tapped for High Court Tech Cases.” According to the article, the lawyers arguing the cases have all either clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court or wirelessly blogged from there. And in related coverage, Marcia Coyle reports that “Broad View of Broadband Sought at High Court.”

Finally, Deborah C. England has an essay entitled “The Nuclear Option: Changing Senate rules on filibusters would be bad policy — and bad law.”

In today’s edition of The Boston Globe: The newspaper contains articles headlined “Roe v. Wade omitted from proclamation” and “State courts to videotape judges’ actions on bench; Aim is to improve trial performance.”

“Commandments display OK’d; House endorses them in government, school buildings; Senate will wait for court ruling”: This article appears today in The Detroit News.

BREAKING NEWS — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit again rules against Terri Schiavo’s parents: You can access this evening’s ruling at this link. This ruling, by the same three-judge panel that ruled in the earlier case, is unanimous. The latest news coverage from The Associated Press is available at this link.

Don’t digitize the chili: Sure, finding a human finger in a bowl of chili is tasteless, but then so is finding humor in the situation by blending that story (which I haven’t previously mentioned here) with another news story (which I have covered plenty in recent days).

In case others haven’t been following the news out of San Jose closely either, here’s a quick rundown.

On Wednesday, The San Jose Mercury News reported that “Woman claims to find finger in eatery’s chili.” Yesterday, that newspaper reported that “It’s official: That was a finger in chili.” And today, the newspaper provides a news update headlined “Coroner unsure if finger cooked or placed in chili bowl later.”

Meanwhile, The San Francisco Chronicle yesterday contained a front page article headlined “Wendy’s diner finds human finger in her chili.” And today, the newspaper reports that “Authorities seek hand with a missing finger.”

“Student’s blog strikes chord, generates book deal”: Congratulations to Jeremy Blachman on this wonderful news. During my visit to Harvard Law School in late April, I will try to find some time to help Jeremy fritter away his staggeringly generous cash advance.

“Schiavo parents get emergency hearing; They argue that daughter expressed will to live”: CNN.com provides this report.

And The Miami Herald provides a news update headlined “Schiavo’s parents: Terri tried to speak last week.”

“Schiavo’s parents get ’emergency hearing’; Father says she is ‘down to her last hours'”: CNN.com provides this news update. The emergency hearing referse to a hearing in a state court in Clearwater, Florida scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today.

“Author of Clarence Thomas biography speaks at HLS”: This article appears in the current issue of The Harvard Law Record.

“‘Evolving Standards of decency’ saved Christopher Simmons’s life; they weren’t enough to save Terri Schiavo”: William Kristol will have this essay in the April 4, 2005 issue of The Weekly Standard.

And at National Review Online today, Andrew C. McCarthy has an essay entitled “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Terri Schiavo has been denied due process of law.”

“Schiavo Update: Parents Suffer Legal Setbacks.” Today’s broadcast of NPR‘s “Day to Day” included this segment (RealPlayer required).

Meanwhile, at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Schiavo case again on the way up.”

Speech Impediment: Is Floyd Abrams endangering press freedom by defending it? Online at The New Republic today, Alexander Barnes Dryer has this review of Floyd Abrams’s new book, “Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment.”

“The Barnes Foundation Seeks Fast Resolution To Anti-Move Appeal”: Today in The Legal Intelligencer, Asher Hawkins has an article (subscription required) that begins, “Seeking to expedite appellate litigation triggered by the appeal of a man previously denied amicus standing in the matter, the Barnes Foundation has filed a King’s Bench petition with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, asking the justices to assume jurisdiction over the Superior Court appeal of Jay Raymond, a former Barnes student and teacher.”

I am quoted in the article:

Bashman said he intends to respond to the Barnes’ petition once he has had a chance to fully review it.

“The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is certainly not a trial court, and it sounds like the foundation is trying to bring in, for lack of a better word, evidence that is not subject to cross-examination – allegations that somehow, financial promises [might] not be kept [if Raymond’s appeal continues on its current schedule] – and that evidence has not been tested in any court,” Bashman said.

The King’s Bench petition will only create additional delays in resolution of the matter, Bashman said, as it will create “uncertainty as to where the appeal will be heard.”

After the Superior Court of Pennsylvania on March 8, 2005 issued an order allowing this appeal to be heard on the merits (details here), counsel for The Barnes Foundation was quoted here in The Philadelphia Inquirer as stating that “Nothing that has happened will affect the Barnes Foundation’s ability to move forward.” By contrast, yesterday — sixteen days after the Superior Court denied the motion to quash the appeal — lawyers for The Barnes told Pennsylvania’s highest court that unless the appeal is resolved as soon as possible, The Barnes will face serious financial peril. And for that reason, lawyers for The Barnes argue, Pennsylvania’s highest court should wrest jurisdiction over the case from Pennsylvania’s intermediate appellate court. Ironically, The Foundation’s unsuccessful motion to quash filed in the Superior Court delayed the merits briefing schedule in that court by forty days.

You can access at this link the “Emergency Application of The Barnes Foundation for Exercise of King’s Bench and/or Extraordinary Plenary Jurisdiction by this Court” filed yesterday in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and the supporting affidavits here, here, and here.

Also yesterday, while simultaneously trying to get the appeal kicked upstairs to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, The Barnes Foundation filed a motion to expedite the briefing schedule on appeal in the Superior Court. The briefing schedule was issued seventeen days ago, and the Brief for Appellant is currently due twenty-three days from today.

“Neb. High Court Upholds Infant Blood Tests”: The Associated Press reports here that “The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a state law Friday that requires mandatory blood testing of newborn babies, rejecting an appeal by a couple who said it violates their religious beliefs.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Nebraska at this link.

“Schiavo’s Parents Back in Federal Court”: The Associated Press provides this report on Terri Schiavo’s parents’ latest appeal to the Eleventh Circuit.

BREAKING NEWS — Seventh Circuit holds constitutional the display of the framed text of the King James version of the Ten Commandments as one of nine historical texts and symbols that comprise a “Foundations of American Law and Government Display” in the County Administration Building in Elkhart County, Indiana: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

Circuit Judge Diane S. Sykes wrote the majority opinion, in which Chief Judge Joel M. Flaum joined. Circuit Judge Frank H. Easterbrook dissented on the ground that he would have dismissed the case for want of standing instead of resolving the case on its merits. The beginning of Judge Easterbrook’s dissent, however, makes quite clear that he likely would agree with the majority on the merits if he believed it appropriate to reach the merits.

More background about the case can be found in a newspaper article that The Goshen (Ind.) News published March 30, 2004 under the headline “Ten Commandments ordered removed from county display.”

Some may recall that an earlier Ten Commandments monument in Elkhart County met a different fate in the Seventh Circuit in late 2000.

By a vote of 7-4, en banc Ninth Circuit panel rules that an assignee who holds an accrued claim for copyright infringement, but who has no legal or beneficial interest in the copyright itself, cannot institute a lawsuit for infringement: You can access today’s ruling at this link. Interestingly, one of the disagreements between the majority and two of the dissenters is whether today’s ruling creates a circuit split: the majority says “no”; the dissenters say “yes.”

“Schiavo father: ‘Down to her last hours’; Family appeals in federal court again.” CNN.com provides this report.

The audio files from yesterday’s Ninth Circuit en banc oral arguments are now available online for download: To download the oral argument audio from yesterday’s en banc argument in Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme Et L’Antisemitisme, click here (Windows Media format).

And to download the oral argument audio from yesterday’s en banc argument in United States v. Ameline, click here (Windows Media format).

On today’s broadcast of NPR‘s “Morning Edition“: The broadcast contained the following segments relating to Terri Schiavo’s case: “Legal Options Narrow for Terri Schiavo’s Parents“; “Religion and the End of Life“; and “Schiavo Case is Grayest of Gray Areas.”

The broadcast also contained a segment entitled “Silicon Valley, Hollywood Square off in File-Sharing Case.”

RealPlayer is required to launch these audio segments.

“Politically Appealing: Congress gives aggrieved plaintiffs a new last resort.” Jacob Sullum has this essay online today at Reason.

“Schiavo’s Health Wanes As Parents Appeal”: The Associated Press provides this updated report, which states that Terri Schiavo’s parents have filed a new appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

“Brief defends freedom of religious schools to choose religion teachers based on religion; Urges Court of Appeals to preserve church autonomy and avoid entanglement”: The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty issued this news release today. The brief for appellees filed yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in a quite interesting case from Delaware, can be accessed at this link.

“Court: Fla. Must Warn of Dangers at Beach.” The Associated Press provides this report on yesterday’s 4-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Florida.

New felony charge filed against man who killed dog named “Felony” because that man had earlier been charged with a felony: The Journal of Martinsburg, West Virginia reported in yesterday’s edition that “Canine cruelty yields arrest.” In other coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Man Kills Dog Because of Name, Felony.”

BREAKING NEWS — “Federal Judge Nixes Schiavo’s Feeding Tube”: The Associated Press reports here that “A federal judge on Friday refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, yet another setback for the parents of the brain-damaged woman in their battle against her husband to keep her alive.”

You can access this morning’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida at this link.

And via FindLaw, you can access here Michael Schiavo’s successful opposition filed yesterday in the U.S. Supreme Court to Terri Schiavo’s parents’ request for a stay.

“Student’s suspension revoked; principal apologizes; The dispute began when Eliazar Velasquez posted photos on the Internet showing his principal smoking outside the school”: The Providence Journal contained this article yesterday.

And the ACLU on Wednesday issued a press release titled “Under Threat of ACLU Lawsuit, Providence School Readmits Student Suspended For Photographing Principal.”

“Outsourcing Rights”: This editorial appears today in The Washington Post.

“Why Schiavo’s Parents Didn’t Have a Case”: CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen has this op-ed today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Bloggers narrowly dodge federal crackdown”: Declan McCullagh provides this report at c|net News.Com. And Law Professor Rick Hasen, in a post at his “Election Law” blog titled “FEC Takes First Stab at Internet Rules: More Clarity Needed,” links to his own commentary.