“Hinckley’s Mother To Be His Sole Escort; Judge Allows Visits Despite Father’s Illness”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

Also available online are Tuesday’s opinion and order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

“Three networks ask court to halt FCC crackdown; Fox calls the agency’s steps against indecency a radical expansion of the rules; The case could go to the Supreme Court”: Jim Puzzanghera has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Now online: slide-rule celebrities; Economists who author blogs are drawing fans who see nothing dismal about the discipline.” The Los Angeles Times today contains an article that begins, “Fame found Tyler Cowen on the back seat of an airport bus.”

“USDA may have to consider monkeys’ feelings, says court”: The Central Valley Business Times provides this report.

My earlier coverage appears at this link.

Available online from law.com: An article reports that “Vaunted Legal Scholar Switches Sides in Supreme Court Patent Case; Stanford’s Mark Lemley decides the current ‘obviousness’ standards may be fine after all.”

In other news, “Ga. Court Readies for Media Blitz Over Trial of Alleged Courthouse Shooter.”

And next week’s installment of my “On Appeal” column is headlined “What Do the Federal Appellate Procedure Rule Changes Mean for You?” Two amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure officially take effect on December 1, 2006, and you can read more about them here and here.

The New York Times is reporting: Today’s newspaper contains an article headlined “A Growing Plea for Mercy for the Mentally Ill on Death Row.”

And Adam Liptak reports that “Court Rules for Kentucky on Executions.” My earlier coverage appears at this link.