“Judicial Conduct Board tries to fight bad publicity from case against judges”: Today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette contains an article that begins, “The state Judicial Conduct Board says it’s tired of getting kicked around in the news media over a case of alleged judicial misconduct in northeast Pennsylvania, so it’s launched a counterattack before the state Supreme Court.”

“A Judge and a Politician”: Linda Greenhouse has this post at the “Opinionator” blog of The New York Times.

“Denver theater company to take smoking-ban case to U.S. Supreme Court”: This article appeared Thursday in The Denver Post.

“A Man of Influence”: In tomorrow’s Sunday Book Review section of The New York Times, law professor Jeffrey Rosen will have this review of Joan Biskupic’s new book, “American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.”

And speaking of Justice Scalia, his dislike of the word “choate” is the subject of tomorrow’s “On Language” column in The New York Times Magazine.

“Some foes of health bill hope courts will stop legislation”: Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post will contain an article that begins, “Opponents of the health-care reform bill are not giving up the fight, and some think their last, best hope to halt the legislation lies not in the Capitol but in the court across the street.”

“Canada’s Free Press”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “In a welcome move toward increased freedom of expression, the Supreme Court of Canada has issued two rulings that will give reporters a new legal defense for ‘responsible communication.'”

My earlier coverage of the rulings appears at this link.

“A Nation of Do-It-Yourself Lawyers”: Today in The New York Times, Chief Justice John T. Broderick Jr. of New Hampshire and Chief Justice Ronald M. George of California have this op-ed.