“Appeals court: Women wrestlers can sue UC Davis.” The Associated Press has a report that begins, “An appeals court said Monday it appears that the University of California, Davis violated federal law meant to promote gender equity in college athletics when it eliminated its women’s wrestling program.”

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

“Georgetown Law’s Lazarus Named to New Professorship”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Advocates push abortion-rights license plate in Va”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Federal investigators explore charges against Roeder”: This article appeared yesterday in The Kansas City Star.

And The Associated Press reports that “Attorneys seek new trial for abortion doc’s killer.”

“A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Originalism and Economic Analysis: Two Case Studies of Consistency and Coherence in Supreme Court Decision Making.” D.C. Circuit Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg has this article in the current issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (via “Legal Theory Blog“).

“No Talking, No Texting, No Tweeting”: At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Marcia Coyle has a post that begins, “A committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States has endorsed a set of model jury instructions for district judges to help deter jurors from using cell phones, computers or other electronic technologies during their jury service.”

“David Souter to speak at 359th Commencement; Harvard alumnus served nearly two decades on U.S. Supreme Court”: Harvard University has issued this news release today.

And The Harvard Crimson has a news update headlined “David H. Souter To Headline Harvard’s 2010 Commencement.”

Eighth Circuit rejects death row inmates’ challenge to the constitutionality of Arkansas’s protocol for execution by lethal injection: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court says Arkansas’ death penalty process is constitutional.”

“Reserving Time for Rebuttal Oral Argument on Appeal”: You can access at this link today’s installment of my monthly “Upon Further Review” column published in The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

“We cannot envision, after Raich, a circumstance under which an as-applied Commerce Clause challenge to a charge of child-pornography possession or production would be successful.” So holds a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in a ruling issued today. The ruling rejects a criminal defendant’s argument that “his wholly intrastate, homemade child pornography falls outside the purview of congressional legislative power.”

“New legal issue: Payment for child porn victims.” The Associated Press has this report.

“Hear Clarence Thomas Speech and Q&A at Stetson Law School”: I previously linked here to the archived video of Justice Clarence Thomas’s remarks last Thursday at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Now, via Jess Bravin’s Twitter feed, I see that you can access the audio of Justice Thomas’s remarks last Tuesday at the Stetson University College of Law via this link (88.7MB mp3 audio file).

“Harry Reid ready to play at recess”: Politico.com has a report that begins, “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid used to consider recess appointments ‘an end run around the Senate and the Constitution’ — so much so that he kept the chamber open during breaks to prevent President George W. Bush from making any more of them. But with a Democrat in the White House, and Republicans blocking executive branch nominees, Reid and his allies are starting to sing a different tune.”

“The Trials of Felipe Reyna”: The Texas Tribune today has posted online an article that begins, “Two former Texas Supreme Court justices and a Goliath of the state judicial lobby have lined up to drive Felipe Reyna from the Waco courthouse where he once worked as a janitor. The Tenth Court of Appeals Judge is undeterred.”

“Campaign case may have set course for court; Ruling’s impact might be seen in 2nd half of term”: Joan Biskupic has this article today in USA Today.