“A new push to define ‘person,’ and to outlaw abortion in the process; Some abortion foes think the rationale for Roe vs. Wade is vulnerable; They’re trying to amend state constitutions — including California’s — to define personhood from conception”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Supreme Court to consider juvenile ‘lifers’; Does life without parole for minors who didn’t kill constitute cruel and unusual punishment?” David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Judicial pay disparity drains talent from federal bench; Vacancies are rising as district judges reluctantly resign lifetime appointments to better provide for their families”: Carol J. Williams had this article yesterday in The Los Angeles Times.

“Ninth Circuit Law Clerks Get Surprise Visitor”: Office of the Circuit Executive of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted online this item.

“Dressed in pinstripes, Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor achieves another major first”: The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger had this report on Saturday evening. The newspaper has also posted related photographs online here and here.

And via YouTube, you can access video footage from The Associated Press titled “Sotomayor Throws Out First Pitch.”

“SJC sharply limits youth curfew law; Bars criminal charge, allows civil penalty”: In Saturday’s edition of The Boston Globe, Jonathan Saltzman had an article that begins, “The state’s highest court yesterday struck down a provision in a Lowell ordinance that made it a crime for children under 17 to violate a curfew, a ruling expected to affect other Massachusetts communities that have adopted or are considering similar local laws.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Mass. court rejects criminal side of teen curfew.”

You can access last Friday’s ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at this link.

“Jeffrey Lamken Leaving Baker Botts to Launch Boutique Firm”: Tony Mauro has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Suspect in Illinois Bomb Plot ‘Didn’t Like America Very Much'”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains this profile of the man charged with plotting to blow up the federal building in Springfield, Illinois.

“High Cost of Death Row”: This editorial appears today in The New York Times.

“The Case of the Plummeting Supreme Court Docket”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.