“Sotomayor Takes Active Role on Court’s First Day”: Robert Barnes will have this article Tuesday in The Washington Post.

And Tuesday in The New York Times, Adam Liptak will have an article headlined “Justices Decline to Hear Some 2,000 Cases.”

Available online from National Public Radio: Nina Totenberg has a written report headlined “Dogfighting Case Gets Its Day In Court.” The audio will appear on tomorrow’s broadcast of “Morning Edition.”

This evening’s broadcast of “All Things Considered” contained an audio segment entitled “High Court Begins New Term” featuring Totenberg.

And today’s broadcast of “Talk of the Nation” contained an audio segment entitled “Major Decisions Anticipated From Supreme Court” featuring David G. Savage and Dahlia Lithwick.

“Sotomayor shows she’s no Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court opens”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“Supreme Court’s new term offers cases that could overturn precedent”: This article appears today in The Kansas City Star.

Available online from The Christian Science Monitor: Warren Richey has articles headlined “Supreme Court to decide case on animal cruelty and free speech; Do depictions of animal cruelty fall short of First Amendment protection? The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday“;

“Supreme Court declines Pledge of Allegiance case; A Florida high-schooler refused to stand and repeat the Pledge of Allegiance, sparking a legal fight; An appeals-court panel didn’t rule his way, and now the Supreme Court won’t get involved“; and

“Supreme Court refuses Confederate flag T-shirt case; A Tennessee school’s ban on T-shirts showing the Confederate flag will stand, after Supreme Court dismisses students’ appeal.”

In addition, Rick DeJesus-Rueff has an op-ed entitled “Justice Sotomayor hits the high court — what about empathy? The heated debate over the word is cool at the moment; But now is a great time to reconsider its value.”

Bill Mears of CNN.com is reporting: He has articles headlined “Supreme Court begins new term with a new justice“; “High court to decide if war memorial violates Constitution“; and “Death row female inmate denied high court review.”

“Appeals court in NYC upholds Rigas’ sentencing”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court in New York has upheld prison sentences given to a father and son who built Adelphia Communications into a cable television powerhouse.”

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

“Scotus rebuffs Scientology tax case”: Josh Gerstein has this post at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com.

“New Term, New Justice for Supreme Court”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Court opens with case on prisoner’s bid for lawyer”: Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Supreme Court began its new term Monday by indicating a willingness to limit how long a suspect’s request for a lawyer should remain valid, and new Justice Sonia Sotomayor wasted little time in letting her voice be heard by questioning the lawyers.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Maryland v. Shatzer, No. 08-680.

“Gun bans, political cash on Supreme Court docket”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

James Vicini of Reuters is reporting: He has articles headlined “US top court rejects Qwest ex-CEO Nacchio’s appeal” and “Top court rejects U.S. govt’s oil royalty appeal.”

“Nacchio Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court on Conviction Appeal”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Justices Decline Review of Pledge, Other School Cases”: Mark Walsh has this post at “The School Law Blog” of Education Week.

“New Court Term Hints at Views on Regulating Business”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times, together with an article headlined “Other Major Cases This Term.”

“Court halts Ohio execution, cites injection flaws”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court has posted today’s Order List at this link. The Court has requested the views of the Solicitor General of the United States in four cases and the views of the Solicitor General of Texas in one case.

At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “No action on detainee case.”

And in early news coverage, The Associated Press has reports headlined “Court won’t force Ill. to have ‘Choose Life’ plate“; “High court refuses to hear insider trading appeal“; “Court won’t review Fla. Pledge of Allegiance law“; “Court won’t block release of sex abuse papers“; “High court won’t review death penalty in Louisiana“; “High court won’t review oil royalties case“; “Court refuses to get involved in church dispute“; “Court won’t hear Ill. foot doctor’s death sentence“; “Court turns down former prosecutor in libel case“; and “Court nixes case of fired deputy who ran vs. boss.”

“A Changed Court Faces Key Decisions In New Term”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment (RealPlayer required) on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic has posted online audio segments from its recent conference titled “‘Important Questions of Federal Law’: Assessing the Supreme Court’s Case Selection Process.” You can access the audio via this link.

“Liberty Legal takes up cross for religion”: Todd J. Gillman had this article yesterday in The Dallas Morning News.

In commentary published today in The Los Angeles Times: Law professor Jonathan Turley has an op-ed entitled “Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s free-speech tests: Supreme Court observers will be watching to see whether the new justice’s rulings will depart from the liberal voting record of her predecessor.”

And law professor Bernard E. Harcourt has an op-ed entitled “Sending children to prison for life: Our laws make allowances for juveniles’ immaturity; judges should too.”

Joan Biskupic of USA Today is reporting: In today’s newspaper, she has front page articles headlined “Animal-abuse videos are test of free speech; Supreme Court weighs reach of anti-cruelty laws” and “O’Connor says rulings ‘dismantled’; Diversity crucial to highest court.”

“South Carolina to ask court to protect Catawba water supply; Carolinas at odds over how much can be withdrawn from river”: Yesterday’s edition of The Greenville News contained this article.

This morning at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Tony Mauro has a related post titled “First Argument of Supreme Court Term Postponed.”

“Sweeping Changes Possible In Federal Judiciary In Connecticut”: This article appears today in The Hartford Courant.

“Gansler to argue for limits to Miranda before high court; State is appealing overturned conviction of Hagerstown man”: Today’s edition of The Baltimore Sun contains an article that begins, “Seventeen years ago, before he was chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr. argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that a suspect’s invocation of Miranda rights should have certain limits. But he never got the chance to find out if the justices agreed because the respondent in the case died, rendering it moot.”

“Florida pushes ahead with an all-digital courthouse; The Florida Supreme Court is expected to approve new rules that will make most courthouse documents and records available to anyone who can get onto the Internet”: This article appears today in The Orlando Sentinel.

“Britain’s new Supreme Court swings into action”: The Associated Press has this report.

And today’s edition of The Guardian (UK) contains an article headlined “State and the individual — supreme court takes on weighty first case; Justices to rule on counter-terrorism laws; Poll shows many think new body unnecessary.”

“Companies Seek Turnaround at Supreme Court as Sotomayor Joins”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

And The New York Times today contains an editorial entitled “The Supreme Court Returns.”