“Students sue to restore affirmative action at UC”: Josh Richman of The Oakland Tribune has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Calif race-based admissions law challenged anew.”

“Scalia: ‘There Is No Right to Secede.'” Eric Turkewitz has this interesting post today at his “New York Personal Injury Law Blog.”

“Gay divorce case draws attorney general’s attention; Couple married in Massachusetts wants divorce in Travis County”: Today’s edition of The Austin American-Statesman contains an article that begins, “Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has intervened in a first-of-its-kind Travis County same-sex divorce case, arguing that the women involved, who were married in another state, may not be legally granted a divorce because Texas law defines marriage as between a man and a woman.”

You can access the intervention petition of the State of Texas at this link.

“An increase in the Court’s summary docket”: Kevin Russell has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Fulton wins ruling in effort to ban alcohol at strip clubs”: Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this news update reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“Terrorism Trials Pose Dilemma For U.S.” This audio segment appeared on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

And at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a report headlined “Lindsey Graham: White House mulling indefinite detention.”

“Ternus: Keep judges insulated from politics.” Today’s edition of The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier contains an article that begins, “Top Iowa judicial and legal officials Monday warned against efforts to politicize the state’s process for selecting judges or turn judicial retention votes into referenda on particular decisions.”

And Radio Iowa has a report headlined “Chief Justice says retention vote will be a test of the system” that begins, “The Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme court says this fall’s retention election for three of the state’s seven justices will be the test of a generation. The state’s high court has faced heavy criticism after striking down the law that banned on same sex marriage.”

“Clash Of the Titans”: Today in The Wall Street Journal, ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl has this review of law professor Ken Gormley‘s new book, “The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr.”

“Starr named 14th president; Pepperdine dean will take office June 1”: The Lariat, the student newspaper of Baylor University, contains this article today, along with articles headlined “Starr’s resume illustrates his life” and “The road we took; Baylor began the arduous process of looking for a president 19 months ago” and an editorial entitled “Starr is an unconventional, but positive addition.”

“Panel OKs end to ‘merit selection’ for judges”: Howard Fischer has this article today in The East Valley (Ariz.) Tribune.

“Conrad Black gets some rare good news”: Steven Skurka has this essay at CTV.ca.

“Asian-Carp Threat Stirs Rethink of Century-Old Feat; Great Lakes States Want to Effectively Undo a Historic Project and Cut Link to Mississippi River to Fend Off Invasive Fish”: This article appears today in The Wall Street Journal.

“Palestinians reverse on terror victim”: At Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has an article that begins, “In a highly unusual step likely to come as a significant relief to U.S. officials, the Palestinian Authority has quietly paid an undisclosed amount to settle a lawsuit by the widow of an American killed in Israel in 2002.”

“Justice Breyer analyzes rule of law in Yale talk”: The New Haven Register contains this article today.

And The Yale Daily News reports today that “Breyer discusses Court’s history.”

“Justice Kennedy on Prisons”: This editorial appears today in The New York Times.

“Initiatives trample rights, Justice Moreno says”: Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, ”
Ballot initiatives have been used to mislead the public and trample on the rights of minorities, says Carlos Moreno, the only California Supreme Court justice who voted to overturn the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.”