“Admiral: I can empty Guantanamo camps in 10 days.” Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Senate OKs transfer of Gitmo prisoners for trials.”

“Ex-Enron executive free of charges after ruling”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Alito troubled by concerns over court’s Catholics”: The Associated Press has this report.

Programming note: A case in which I helped write the appellants’ briefs on the merits is being argued today before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania sitting in Philadelphia. Additional posts will appear here later today after I return from that oral argument.

“Study: States can’t afford death penalty.” Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

“Justice blocks names in gay rights ballot measure”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who signed a ballot measure on gay rights.”

Programming note: This evening, I’ll be at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia to see game four of the National League Championship Series as the Philadelphia Phillies host the Los Angeles Dodgers. You can access previews of tonight’s game at this link. Additional posts will appear here on Tuesday morning.

Update: Final score — Philadelphia Phillies 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 4. You can access the box score at this link. You can view the game-winning, walk-off 2 RBI double by Jimmy Rollins by clicking here. Additional video highlights from the game can be accessed via this link. And in coverage from MLB.com, you can access articles headlined “Phils walk off in ninth, one win from Series; Rollins’ two-out, two-run double sinks Dodgers in Game 4” and “Dodgers, Broxton stung by Phils in ninth; Rollins laces walk-off double, putting L.A. in 3-1 hole.”

“Hurricane Katrina Victims Have Standing To Sue Over Global Warming”: Nathan Koppel has this post today at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”

And Greenwire (via the web site of The New York Times) reports that “Courts Follow Landmark 2nd Circuit Ruling With 2 Greenhouse Gas Decisions.”

My earlier coverage of last Friday’s Fifth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“D.C. Circuit Tries to Untangle Eminent Domain Battle”: Mike Scarcella has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Jan Crawford Greenburg Leaves ABC for CBS”: The blog “TVNewser” had this post late Friday.

And today, CBS News has issued a press release that begins, “Jan Crawford Greenburg will become CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent, it was announced today by Sean McManus, President, CBS News and Sports. Her appointment will be effective January 4, 2010.”

“The price of vanity plates: XXXXXXX car tag nets man $19,000 in tickets.” This article appeared Friday in The Birmingham (Ala.) News.

“Inmate-abortion fight continues; Arpaio, ACLU clash over transport fees”: Today’s edition of The Arizona Republic contains an article that begins, “Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been battling with the American Civil Liberties Union over a jail inmate’s right to be transported to an abortion clinic since 2004, and Arpaio has lost the battle all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

“Death sentence for killer ‘freakish'”: Bill Rankin has this article today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Are you voting for Panella or Melvin? Who? For what?” Today in The Philadelphia Daily News, columnist John Baer has an op-ed that begins, “Way below the noise of the national health-care debate and the state budget debacle is a whisper of a race for state Supreme Court with possible loud and long-term impact.”

“Review death penalty law, ex-governor urges; White worries about execution of the innocent”: The Houston Chronicle contains this article today.

“Sotomayor LAW ’79 returns to speak at Law School reunion”: This article appears today in The Yale Daily News.

“Supreme Court’s Stevens keeps cards close to robe; Long-serving justice, 89, a force behind the scenes”: Joan Biskupic has this front page article today in USA Today. And a related item is headlined “Personalities shape questioning from bench.”

Available online from law.com: An headlined “11th Circuit: Don’t Break the Law to Comply With It; Federal appeals court rejects collection company’s defense against debtor’s suit” reports on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued last week.

In other news, “5th Circuit to Interpret Departing-Lawyer Rule.”

And in news from the Ninth Circuit, “Lawyer Facing Possible Discipline Digs Hole a Little Deeper.”

“Flags of convenience: Ideological foes apply constitutional principles inconsistently.” Roy T. Englert Jr. and Alex Potapov will have this essay in the October 19, 2009 issue of The National Law Journal.

“Supreme Court race ‘a dead heat,’ says pollster”: This article appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“Perry uses clemency sparingly on death row; Governor has never called off an execution on a claim of innocence”: The Houston Chronicle contains this article today.

“Justice system failings in wake of Hurricane Katrina left wounds that remain unhealed”: This article appears today in The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.

“U.S. Supreme Court: Gun control on culture war’s front burner.” Michael Kirkland of United Press International has this report today.

“California gives the poor a new legal right; Under a new law, the state will provide lawyers in key civil cases, such as those dealing with eviction and domestic abuse; Advocates say underprivileged litigants will get a better shot at justice”: Carol J. Williams had this article yesterday in The Los Angeles Times.

“Justice returns to city: Sotomayor is star at 30th reunion”: Today’s edition of The New Haven Register contains this article.

“U.S. Supreme Court case could impact beach renourishment projects”: This article appears today in The Florida Times-Union.

“Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of NCLB Suit”: Mark Walsh has this post today at “The School Law Blog” of Education Week.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s en banc Sixth Circuit affirmance by an equally divided court can be accessed here.

“Suspect can be extradited, court rules; Supreme Court overturns Ontario Court of Appeal decision”: Today’s edition of The Toronto Globe & Mail contains an article that begins, “An Arizona man can be extradited on a murder charge despite the fact that evidence against him does not equate with Canadian legal requirements, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled yesterday.”

The Arizona Daily Star reports today that “Man charged in wife’s death to be extradited.”

And Bloomberg News reports that “Canada Supreme Court Orders U.S. Murder Suspect’s Extradition.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link.

“Legal changes open doors to working women; Decades of action by Congress and courts broke down many of the barriers”: Pete Williams, Justice correspondent for NBC News, has this report.

“A U.K. Court Without the Wigs; New Supreme Bench, Patterned on America’s, Stirs Debate”: Cassell Bryan-Low and Jess Bravin have this article today in The Wall Street Journal.

And at YouTube, C-SPAN has posted a video titled “Opening of UK Supreme Court.”

“Clash of schools, blogs raises free-speech issues; Butler sues student; district responds to teacher’s allegations”: The Indianapolis Star contains this article today.

“Right to counsel should include competence: When a guilty plea could mean deportation, a lawyer should be able to give his client good advice.” This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Issue of Gableman recusal divides state Supreme Court”: Today’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contains an article that begins, “Justices on the deeply divided state Supreme Court hurled dueling statements this week, with one contingent accusing the other of delaying decisions on how to handle requests to force the newest member of the court off criminal cases. The fight brewing between justices comes as they wrestle with when judges must remove themselves from cases. It signals that the ethics case against the newest member, Justice Michael Gableman, may be a flashpoint for the court.”

Fifth Circuit reinstates lawsuit alleging that the operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming, resulting in the harms caused by Hurricane Katrina: According to today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit:

Plaintiffs’ public and private nuisance claims assert that defendants intentionally and unreasonably used their property so as to produce massive amounts of greenhouse gasses and thereby injure both plaintiffs and the general public by contributing to global warming, which caused the sea level rise and added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina, the combined effects of which resulted in the destruction of plaintiffs’ private property, as well as their loss of use of certain public property in the vicinity of their dwellings.

Today’s ruling holds only that the plaintiffs have standing to assert these claims, and that the claims do not present non-justiciable political questions. Whether the claims have merit or are otherwise valid are issues that remain to be addressed, in the first instance by the trial court.

En banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issues evenly divided ruling on lawsuit challenging the legality of the federal law known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: You can access today’s order, affirming the federal district court’s ruling by an evenly divided court, at this link. In addition, four judges on the Sixth Circuit issued opinions totaling over 90 pages explaining their views of the case.

Back in January 2008, a three-judge Sixth Circuit panel issued this ruling on the case, and I had this post about the ruling on the day it issued.

Update: In news coverage of today’s ruling, The Associated Press reports that “Feds prevail in dispute over education law.”