“City Drops Objections To Religious Sculpture; Display Doesn’t Need Permit, Agency Says”: The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, “More than three weeks after District officials warned an evangelical Christian group about displaying a sculpture of the Ten Commandments on property across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court, they said yesterday that the 850-pound granite monument doesn’t need a permit after all.”

“Jurist Need Not Testify; Court Grants Sullivan’s Motion”: Today in The Hartford Courant, Lynne Tuohy has an article that begins, “Former Chief Justice William J. Sullivan does not have to honor a subpoena to appear before a legislative hearing to answer questions about his decision to withhold release of a controversial ruling to benefit a colleague. Such an appearance would have violated the constitutional separation of powers doctrine, a Superior Court judge ruled Monday.”

And The Waterbury Republican-American today contains an article headlined “No subpoena for former chief justice Sullivan.”

“U.S. Ends a Yearlong Effort to Obtain Library Records Amid Secrecy in Connecticut”: The New York Times contains this article today.

“A ‘Mafia Cop’ Lawyer Is Found Not Incompetent”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

And The New York Sun reports today that “‘Mafia Cop’ Lawyer Defends Strategy That Resulted in a Life Sentence.”

“Justices Get Down to Business; High Court to Weigh In On String of Corporate-Related Cases”: Ben Winograd and Jess Bravin have this article (free access) today in The Wall Street Journal.

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports today that “Justices Take Up Climate Debate; Environmentalists and 12 states, including California, hope the high court will order new emission rules to fight global warming.”

The New York Times reports that “Justices Agree to Consider New Case on Emissions” and “Supreme Court to Review Antitrust Case Against Phone Companies.”

The Washington Post reports that “High Court to Hear Greenhouse Gas Case; States, Groups Push for Regulation.”

USA Today reports that “Court to hear case on federal regulation of ‘greenhouse gases.’”

The Washington Times reports that “Court to review EPA’s refusal to regulate CO2.”

And law.com’s Tony Mauro reports that “Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Patent and Clean Air Act Cases.”

“Studying the State of the Las Vegas Judiciary: An Illustration of the Problems that Arise When Judges Are Elected, Not Appointed.” Carl Tobias has this essay today online at FindLaw.