“4th Circuit Vacates $10 million Punitive Damages Award in Discrimination Suit”: Mike Scarcella has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times” about a lengthy non-precedential ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in which each of the three judges on the panel wrote separately.

“Ten Commandments display will get high court review”: Today’s edition of The Oklahoman contains an article that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled next week to consider the case involving a Ten Commandments monument on Haskell County Courthouse property in Stigler, but the legal discussion got a head start Friday at the University of Oklahoma.”

“Why the ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy is doomed”: David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey have this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

“State high court will review legality of ‘pole tax'”: The Houston Chronicle today contains an article that begins, “The Texas Supreme Court has decided to review the legality of charging a $5-per-person ‘pole tax’ to patrons of strip clubs and other adult entertainment venues, a case that has hinged on whether the government can tax content protected by the First Amendment.”

The Associated Press reports that “Texas Supreme Court will hear strip-club fee case.”

And at the “Austin Legal” blog of The Austin American-Statesman, Chuck Lindell has a blog post titled “Supreme Court to hear appeal on strip club ‘pole tax.’”

“Court hearing argues cell-phone privacy rights”: The Philadelphia Inquirer contains this article today.

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Orin Kerr has a post titled “Thoughts on the Oral Argument in the Third Circuit Cell-Site Records Case.”

You can access at this link (19.6MB Windows Media audio file) the recording of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

“2008 habeas ruling may pose snag as U.S. weighs indefinite Guantanamo detentions”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

“Insiders: White House quietly preps for possible high court spot.” Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal reports that “Talk Grows of 2 Openings at High Court; White House reportedly preparing for more Supreme Court exits.”