“Va. Killer Isn’t Retarded, Jury Says; Execution Set”: Saturday’s edition of The Washington Post will contain this front page article.

“Officials Deny a Request for Roberts Documents”: This article will appear Saturday in The New York Times.

“ADA Case Could Be Key Test for Roberts”: Tony Mauro has this article online at law.com.

“Ivory Powers: Let’s stop bashing ‘out-of-touch’ judges.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Strip club stirs outrage with less-than-subtle sign; What’s obscene and what isn’t? Frankly worded billboard infuriates merchants along Century Boulevard near LAX, but the owner says he’s merely promoting his business.” This article appears today in The Daily Breeze of Torrance, California.

“Bush Administration Stonewalls Senate: Won’t Release John Roberts Records.” People For the American Way issued this press release today.

And Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. today issued a press release entitled “Attorney General Refusal to Provide Roberts Documents Impedes Nomination Process; Planned Parenthood Voices Outrage, Growing Alarm at Attempts to Hide Record.”

Racial Justice: Why John Roberts’s memos are a political liability. Noam Scheiber has this TRB essay in the August 15, 2005 issue of The New Republic.

“Dear Judge Roberts: Congratulations on your nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.” So begins an open letter from U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel published in this week’s issue of The National Law Journal.

“Court bars logging plan in largest U.S. forest”: Reuters provides this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Billboard law survives second challenge; Adult businesses suffer setback”: Wednesday’s edition of The Kansas City Star contained this article.

“Sex toy sale ban on familiar turf in federal court; Attorneys point to Texas case in effort to strike state law”: This article appeared yesterday in The Huntsville Times.

“Five Big Issues: Sure, Roberts might not be as bad as you fear; But there are reasons to worry.” Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt has this essay online at The American Prospect.

“Florida State to Challenge Ban on Mascots”: The Associated Press provides this report.

“Verdict: Atkins not mentally retarded.” The Daily Press of Hampton Roads, Virginia provides a news update that begins, “A jury concluded today that death-row inmate Daryl Atkins, whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision barring executions of the mentally retarded, is not retarded. The judge set an execution date of Dec. 2. The defense says it will appeal.”

And The Associated Press offers an article headlined “Jurors: Death Row Inmate Not Retarded.”

“Jury waivers in contracts ruled not binding”: Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article reporting on a ruling that the Supreme Court of California issued yesterday.

“Enigma of Roberts Also Bedevils the Right”: FOXNews.com provides this report.

The Washington Times today contains articles headlined “GOP to make push for Roberts” and “Rehnquist fever stirs up speculation about retirement.”

The Rocky Mountain News today contains an article headlined “Roberts helped foes of gay law; Nominee advised Dubofsky on appeal of Amendment 2” and an op-ed by Mike Rosen entitled “‘Ginsburg Rule’ in play.”

And in The Oakland Tribune, Josh Richman reports that “Roberts’ gay-rights work is cheered; Bay Area civil rights leaders laud nominee for pro bono efforts but still want more information.”

Finally for now, in commentary, The Birmingham News contains an editorial entitled “Judge Roberts points the way.”

“College money of Roberts’ son in Utah”: The Salt Lake Tribune today contains an article that begins, “Young Jack Roberts got national attention for busting a move while President Bush announced his father’s nomination to the Supreme Court. But if Jack fails to land a performing arts scholarship, he has a healthy education fund invested in Utah.”

“Closet liberals”: Patti Waldmeir has this interesting U.S. Supreme Court-related essay today online at Financial Times.

“Rehnquist hospital visit fuels renewed speculation”: The Associated Press provides this report.

“Top court stays ruling on private health care”: The Toronto Globe and Mail today contains an article that begins, “The Supreme Court of Canada has granted a one-year stay in its ruling clearing the way for private health insurance in Quebec, but experts expect the movement toward two-tier health care in Canada to continue.”

“Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments,” by Lee Epstein and Jeffrey A. Segal. An “advance reading copy” of this new book published by Oxford University Press, and due to be available for sale to the public next month, arrived in today’s mail.

Owner of invalidated patent probably won’t find today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit aesthetically pleasing: Especially since the ruling affirms a district court’s decision finding the patent invalid because the patent’s use of the term “aesthetically pleasing” was too indefinite to be enforced.

The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Mehlman Seeks Swift Roberts Confirmation” and “NCAA Bans Indian Mascots From Postseason.”

“Money, Judicial Elections, And The First Amendment”: That’s the title of my monthly appellate column that will appear on Monday in The Legal Intelligencer. The column focuses on the Eighth Circuit‘s en banc decision earlier this week striking down Minnesota’s prohibition on the direct solicitation of funds by candidates for elective judicial office.

“Quarreling About Quotas: The Left’s attack on Roberts’s civil-rights record.” Edward Whelan has this essay today at National Review Online.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rules that Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda are subject to being sued in the United States by victims, relatives of victims, and businesses harmed when a devastating truck bomb exploded outside the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya in 1998: You can access today’s ruling at this link.

In news from Australia: NEWS.com.au reports that “Sleeping judge retires from bench.” And The Associated Press reports that “Judge Accused of Dozing at Trials Retires.”

“A circuit court of our own”: Today in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Ninth Circuit Judge Richard C. Tallman has an op-ed that begins, “For at least 30 years there has been talk of splitting the gargantuan 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s largest federal appellate court.” (Via “Objective Justice.”)

“Reagan Library Draws Crowd to Peruse Roberts’ Papers”: This segment (RealPlayer required) appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR‘s “Morning Edition.”

“Roberts’ Past Involves Polarizing Cases”: Gina Holland of The Associated Press provides this report.

“In Private Practice, Roberts’s Record Is Mixed; Some Cases Run Counter to Conservative Image, but Activists on the Right Say His Past Is Irrelevant”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

“Mixed Signals: Roberts Took Liberal Portion of Red Meat.” The blog “ScrappleFace” this morning provides a report that begins, “In a revelation which further confused advocates on the right and left, a new Freedom of Information Act release shows that Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts once took liberal portions of red meat at a non-partisan fundraising event.”

“Measuring the Blogosphere”: The New York Times contains this editorial today.

“Indians Continue Wait for Accounts’ Resolution; Nine-Year-Old Lawsuit Against Interior Department on Trust Funds Appears Far From Settlement”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

“Judge Roberts’s Memos”: The Washington Post today contains an editorial that begins, “The request by Democratic senators to see memos written by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. during his service in the solicitor general’s office requires a difficult balancing of legitimate interests: the executive branch’s need for confidentiality against a full and informed Senate confirmation proceeding.”