“9/11 Conspirator Seeks Appeal”: Yesterday evening’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “America & the Courts” featured the audio of last month’s Fourth Circuit reargument of Zacarias Moussaoui’s appeal. You can view the broadcast online, on-demand by clicking here.

“An Affectionate Portrait of Bill Rehnquist, Regular Guy”: Law professor Rod Smolla has this book review today in The Richmond Times-Dispatch.

“Justices Ginsburg, Scalia onstage in Washington National Opera’s ‘Aridane'”: Today at the “Clef Notes” blog of The Baltimore Sun, you can access this post, featuring photos.

And The Associated Press reports that “Scalia, Ginsburg play nonspeaking opera roles.”

“Botched surgery case to test pain, suffering limits”: This article appears today in The Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World.

“Merit selection process for R.I. judges to get a close analysis”: Today in The Providence Journal, columnist Ed Fitzpatrick has an op-ed that begins, “In the last few weeks, news about the Rhode Island judiciary has been dominated by accounts of how retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams is embroiled in a messy divorce case involving his former driver.”

“New Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman ready to face challenges”: This interview appears online at the web site of The Dallas Morning News.

“State court deal nears $2 billion”: Today’s edition of The Sacramento Bee contains an article that begins, “An effort to create a centralized computer system for California’s state courts, originally conceived as a modest upgrade in a few counties, now faces total costs approaching $2 billion and is years away from large-scale implementation, an investigation by The Bee has found.”