“U.S. Supreme Court to hear vaccine case; The Bruesewitz family of Mt. Lebanon will get its day at the bar of justice”: This article appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

And, in related coverage, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports today that “Suit says Mt. Lebanon girl suffered severe brain damage.”

“Hearing Delayed for Obama Judicial Nominee Who Supported Serial Killer”: FOXNews.com has a report that begins, “The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed the hearing for a controversial Court of Appeals nominee after the panel received a letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting him as a judicial loose cannon and Republicans raised concerns about his alleged bias in favor of sex offenders.”

“Justices to Hear Case of Protest at Marine Funeral”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage has an article headlined “Supreme Court to hear case on protests; Justices will rule on suit by parents of soldier whose funeral was marred by anti-gay religious demonstrators.”

The Wichita Eagle reports that “Phelps-protests case to go before Supreme Court.”

The Kansas City Star reports that “Justices to hear case involving Fred Phelps’ protests at military funerals.”

And The York (Pa.) Daily Record reports that “U.S. Supreme Court to hear Snyder-Westboro case.”

“Roberts: Scene at State of Union ‘very troubling.'” The Associated Press has a report that begins, “U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says the scene at this year’s State of the Union address by President Obama was ‘very troubling,’ and he wonders if justices should attend in the future.”

“Gun Points: History reveals a long-standing local authority to regulate guns; Shouldn’t that matter?” Saul Cornell, Justin Florence, and Matthew Shors have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And online at The Washington Examiner, Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro have an op-ed entitled “Is Justice Scalia abandoning originalism?”

“Funeral-protest case to test boundaries”: Tony Mauro has this news anaysis online at the First Amendment Center.

Fortunately, the panel’s original opinion had issued on Opposite Day: Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued the following order amending an earlier opinion:

The Opinion filed on December 30, 2009, is amended as follows: on slip Opinion page 16888, delete the word “not” in the first sentence of the section with the title “CONCLUSION.”

You can access the Court’s original, pre-amendment ruling at this link.

“The question of whether a teacher at a sectarian school classifies as a ministerial employee is one of first impression for this Court.” In an opinion issued today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit examines whether the so-called “ministerial exception” to federal anti-discrimination laws precludes a former teacher from bringing a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act against the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School.

“Experts Urge Keeping Two Options for Terror Trials”: Charlie Savage and Scott Shane have this article today in The New York Times.

Today’s edition of The Toronto Globe & Mail contains an article headlined “White House considering military trial for 9/11 suspect; Reported about-face angers rights groups as Obama seeks deal on closing Gitmo.”

And at the web site of McClatchy Newspapers, Talat Hamdani has an essay entitled “Justice for 9-11 victims shouldn’t involve military commissions.”

“A Nonfrivolous Suit”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains this editorial about the lawsuit over an allegedly scalding McDonald’s fried chicken sandwich.

My earlier coverage of the Fourth Circuit’s ruling in this case can be accessed here and here.

“9th Circuit candidate’s career marked by rapid ascent, wide-ranging roles; Berkeley professor Goodwin Liu, son of immigrants, would be youngest judge on the appeals court; He clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg and worked in government offices during the Clinton administration”: Carol J. Williams has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“High court to rule on federal background probes”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

And The Pasadena Star-News reports today that “Supreme Court to decide if JPL background checks can continue.”

“Debate Heats Up Over 9th Circuit Nominee”: At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” David Ingram has a post that begins, “It was clear even before he was nominated that Goodwin Liu would stir up activists as few other Obama judicial nominees have.”

“Poll Shows Public Support for Cameras at the High Court”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report.

The organization that conducted the poll, Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind, has today issued a news release headlined “Public Says Televising Court Is Good for Democracy” providing access to the polling results.