“11th Circuit Tosses Taser Case; YouTube Video of Incident Lets Viewers Judge”: Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal’s “Law News Now” blog has this post today.

“The Human Toll: How Individual Americans Have Fared at the Hands of Bush Judges.” The organization People For the American Way Foundation has issued this report today. A related press release can be accessed here.

“Appeals Court to Consider State’s Death Penalty Gridlock; Small step in battle over lethal injection”: Howard Mintz has this article today in The San Jose Mercury News.

“Supreme Court filings focus on military death penalty system”: Marine Reservist Col. Dwight Sullivan has this post at “CAAFlog” focusing on the treatment of military law in the supplemental briefs filed yesterday in the U.S. Supreme Court in the death penalty for child rape case known as Kennedy v. Louisiana.

“Attorney for Gitmo inmate works to drum up support”: The Associated Press provides this report.

“Law dean writes of regret over errors; Author stands by article’s conclusions”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans yesterday published an article that begins, “Tulane Law School’s dean has apologized to the Louisiana Supreme Court for what he called ‘numerous errors’ underlying a recent Tulane Law Review article about a study that showed a high correlation between lawyer and litigant campaign contributions to justices and decisions favoring the donors.”

The Supreme Court of Louisiana has posted the letter of apology at its web site, and you can access the letter directly by clicking here. The law review article in question can be accessed here. The Louisiana high court’s web site also offers access to a rebuttal and a critique of that article.

At WSJ.com’s “Law Blog,” Dan Slater has this post providing additional background.

“Mob boss Vinny stuck with judge”: The New York Post today contains an article that begins, “Former Bronx beauty-parlor owner and mob boss Vincent ‘Vinny Gorgeous’ Basciano can’t get a new judge for his upcoming murder trial just because he allegedly put the name of his current judge on a hit list he wrote in jail, a federal appeals court ruled.”

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Second Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Appeals court reinstates murder convictions of disgraced Mafia cops”: The New York Daily News contains this article today.

The New York Times reports today that “Convictions Reinstated in Mob Case.”

And Newsday reports that “Appeals court reinstates conviction of ‘Mafia Cops.’”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

“Tribune’s Zell outraged by Times workers’ lawsuit; The company’s chief executive calls allegations against him and the company frivolous and unfounded”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Shooting near Kirksville becomes a test of Missouri’s new ‘castle doctrine’ law”: Today’s edition of The Kansas City Star contains an article that begins, “When Rogelio Johnson allegedly climbed through a window and confronted Jackie Gleason in her home near Kirksville, Mo., in May, she shot him dead. A crime? Yes, concluded an Adair County coroner’s jury last month. Not so fast, said county Prosecutor Mark Williams, who says the shooting may be justified under a new Missouri law known as the ‘castle doctrine’ that allows a person to use lethal force against intruders.”

And in earlier coverage, The Kirksville (Mo.) Daily Express has published articles headlined “Gleason to be charged with murder“; “A portrait of abuse: State advocate, Gleason’s daughter provide insight into abuser, victim“; “Attorney continues verbal sparring with another letter“; and “‘The Wild, Wild West’: Local prosecutor, MU law professor offer similar views on castle doctrine.”

“House Democrats push through pro-gun bill; Conservatives cite Second Amendment in 266-152 vote”: The Washington Times today contains an article that begins, “Conservative House Democrats defied party leaders Wednesday and pushed through legislation that loosens gun laws in the District, saying that the Second Amendment trumps their party’s long-standing advocacy of Home Rule in the nation’s capital.”

And today’s edition of The Washington Post contains an article headlined “Limit on Gun Law Passes; Senate Vote Unlikely” and an editorial entitled “Open Season on the District: Only the Senate stands in the way of gutting gun regulations.”

“Senator, Target of Anthrax Letter, Challenges F.B.I. Finding”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

The Los Angeles Times reports today that “Senators question FBI’s handling of anthrax inquiry; Some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee challenge the bureau’s director, signaling that they are not convinced the case has been solved.”

And USA Today reports that “Senators doubt anthrax finding; Question FBI conclusion of lone culprit in attacks.”

“Court upholds injunction against patdowns at Bucs games”: Yesterday’s issue of The St. Petersburg Times contained an article that begins, “A Hillsborough County civics teacher has won another round to block patdowns at Tampa Bay Buccaneers home games. A judge for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a motion by Gordon Johnston’s attorneys to prevent the patdowns from starting, while they consider appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

“Brian Nichols trial: Jurors chosen, though many didn’t want to be.” This article appears today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. According to the article, the jury may begin hearing evidence in the death penalty case against against alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols on Monday of next week.

“House launches probe of Porteous; Case could result in impeachment vote”: Today’s edition of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans contains an article that begins, “The House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to launch an impeachment inquiry of U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous of Metairie, the first such effort in two decades. The investigation will be conducted by a task force of committee members, which have yet to be chosen. The task force is expected to report back to the judiciary committee in January, after a new Congress is sworn in.”

“11th Circuit Taser Video Posted on YouTube”: This article appears today in the Fulton County Daily Report.

“The fate of Roe v. Wade and choice”: Law Professor Cass Sunstein had this op-ed Sunday in The Boston Globe.

“Why the Senate Needs to Approve More Judges Before It Adjourns”: Carl Tobias has this essay online at FindLaw.

“Anthrax Suspect Didn’t Act Alone, Leahy Posits”: This article will appear Thursday in The Washington Post.

“Requiring a judge to recuse himself because the defendant, in an attempt to change judges, has plotted or threatened to kill him would provide any defendant who wanted a new judge with an effective, if in some cases dreadful, method to achieve that end.” So reasons the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a ruling issued today.

Access online the written materials from the Rehnquist Center‘s recent symposium on “New Media and the Courts”: You can access the written materials by clicking here. And you can view the agenda for the symposium, which took place on September 9, 2008, by clicking here.

“Dissenting Judge Tells Lawyers to Take It to YouTube”: Carolyn Elefant has this post at law.com’s “Legal Blog Watch” blog.

For the record, it was I, rather than the dissenting judge, who originally suggested posting the video of this police taser incident at YouTube, where it appeared overnight at this link, as I noted in this post from earlier today.

I’m not claiming that the video appeared on YouTube pursuant to my suggestion, although the person who posted the video did email me overnight to let me know that it would be appearing on YouTube imminently. In any event, the video, especially in combination with the accompanying audio, is quite disturbing and certainly demonstrates that the dissenting judge had legitimate grounds for the passionate nature of her dissent.

“Employer sanctions law upheld by federal appeals court”: The Arizona Republic provides this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court upholds Arizona immigration law.”

My earlier coverage of today’s Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Court urged to hold fast against death for child rape”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Supreme Court’s Global Influence Is Waning”: Adam Liptak will have this article, the latest in his “American Exception” series, tomorrow in The New York Times.

“Jury selected for Nichols trial; Testimony to begin Monday in death penalty trial”: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution provides a news update that begins, “The jury has been chosen for the Brian Nichols trial in Fulton County Superior Court. A majority female jury will decide whether Nichols is a murderer and whether he should die for the crime.”

“Judge Rules McCain’s U.S. Citizenship is ‘Highly Probable'”: At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Tony Mauro has a post that begins, “A San Francisco federal judge ruled late Tuesday that Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s claim of U.S. citizenship is strong enough that a lawsuit challenging his placement on the California ballot should be dismissed.”

“U.S. House Judiciary Committee forms task force to investigate Judge Porteous”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans provides this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “House panel moves toward impeaching a judge.”

Ninth Circuit rejects facial constitutional challenge to Legal Arizona Workers Act, a state law that targets employers who hire illegal aliens and sanctions such employers with the revocation of their licenses to do business in Arizona: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

In early coverage, Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star has a news update headlined “Appeals court rejects challenge to Ariz. employer sanctions law.”

“W.Va. court releases chief’s e-mails sought by AP”: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “Five e-mails sent by the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court to the head of coal company Massey Energy show the justice was concerned with a Democratic primary challenger. The e-mails were released Wednesday after a county judge sided with The Associated Press, which sued the Supreme Court to have them released under the state’s freedom of information law.”

“When Acquitted Doesn’t Mean Acquitted: Judges Can Sentence Criminals to Longer Prison Terms Even After a Jury Has Acquitted Them.” ABCNews.com provides this report (via “Sentencing Law and Policy” blog).

“Scalia says U. of C. has gone liberal”: Today in The Chicago Sun-Times, Abdon M. Pallasch has an article that begins, “On the eve of today’s 221st anniversary of the U.S. Constitution’s adoption, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told conservative lawyers in Chicago that the University of Chicago Law School — where he used to teach — has lost its edge and gone liberal.”

“L.A. Times employees sue parent firm Tribune, Zell; A group of current and former workers accuses the CEO and his predecessor of devising a plan to take the company private to enrich themselves to the detriment of employees”: The Los Angeles Times contains this article today.

And The New York Times reports today that “Reporters From Paper Suing Chief of Tribune.”

WSJ.com’s “Law Blog” has posted a copy of the complaint initiating suit at this link.

“Affirmative action and the bar exam: A California professor studying affirmative action should have access to law school performance statistics.” This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Nichols trial: Jurors likely to find job difficult.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today contains this article previewing the death-penalty case against alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols.