“Health-Overhaul Foes Ready Court Challenges”: In Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin will have an article that begins, “Opponents of the health-care overhaul awaiting President Barack Obama’s signature said Monday they would quickly file legal challenges, potentially giving the U.S. Supreme Court a fresh opportunity to reopen questions about the limits of federal power.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google News.

“Gableman wants Crooks off of ethics case”: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a news update that begins, “State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who has spent the last year fighting efforts to remove him from cases for bias, is now trying to force Justice N. Patrick Crooks from an ethics case against Gableman. Gableman filed a motion late Friday saying Crooks should step aside in the ethics case, contending Crooks showed bias against Gableman in a recent concurrence. Gableman accused Crooks in his motion of lodging ‘gratuitous personal attacks’ and ‘personal criticisms’ against him.”

“Trial in Same-Sex Marriage Case Is Challenged”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Court to weigh citizenship rule that varies by sex”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Supreme Court Battle Quietly Brews Over Possible Future Nominations; Contentious Hearing for Lower Court Nominee to Foreshadow High Court Battles to Come”: Ariane de Vogue has this article at ABCNews.com.

“Federal Circuit Confirms that Patents Must Meet Both the Written Description and Enablement Requirements of Section 112”: The blog “Patently-O” has this post about an en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued today.

And, in a separate ruling issued today, a three-judge Federal Circuit panel divided 2-1 over the validity of a patent for “the idea of using a scratch-off label to mark beverage containers and cups so that attendees of a gathering or party could keep track of their beverage cups.”

“Court rules against Phila. Newspapers creditors”: The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update that begins, “A federal appeals court has ruled that Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C., the parent company of The Inquirer, the Daily News and Philly.com, can bar its senior lenders from using their debt to try to purchase the company at auction.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Philly newspaper creditors can’t bid with credit.”

The decision is not yet freely available from the web site of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Update: You can view today’s ruling, by a divided three-judge Third Circuit panel, at this link.

“We consider first to what extent the Federal Rules of Evidence apply in supervised release revocation proceedings. We then consider whether the use of an Internet search to confirm the judge’s intuition about a fact not subject to reasonable dispute is grounds for reversal.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued this ruling today.

The federal district judge whose internet use was at issue has himself been nominated to serve on the Second Circuit.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court has posted it online at this link. The Court today granted review in four new cases.

Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. issued a dissent from the denial of certiorari in Nurre v. Whitehead, No. 09-671.

At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Victory for U.S. on detainees.”

And in early news coverage, The Associated Press has reports headlined “Justices to rule on $14M judgment vs. DA’s office“; “Court rejects new challenge from Gitmo detainees“; “Court refuses second Asian carp injunction request“; “High court stays out of Mass. abortion clinic case“; and “Court: Student can’t sue over ‘Ave Maria’ ban.”

“Death of source puts videotapes in jeopardy; Defendants could squelch tapes under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment”: Yesterday’s edition of The Salt Lake Tribune contained an article that begins, “The death of the government’s top witness in the Four Corners artifacts-trafficking investigation has forced prosecutors to re-evaluate how they will present thousands of hours of taped evidence he gathered during a two-year undercover operation.”

“Sizing up the Supreme Court after Justice John Paul Stevens retires; His expected exit shouldn’t alter the ideological balance, but his role as the senior justice on the liberal side has been pivotal”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Supreme Court to decide on the validity of prenuptial agreements”: The Times of London today contains an article that begins, “Britain’s most senior judges will hear a landmark appeal this week over whether divorcing couples should be bound by pre-marriage agreements on how their assets will be split.”

The Observer (UK)) reported yesterday that “Pre-nup agreements await ‘landmark judgment’; The Supreme Court is set to deliver a ruling that will have major consequences for many couples-to-be.”

And Financial Times reports today that “Heiress case puts pre-nup deals to the test.”

“U.S. may expand use of its prison in Afghanistan; The White House is considering housing international terrorism suspects at Bagram air base, as is done at Guantanamo Bay”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

And today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal contains an editorial entitled “Lindsey Graham’s Air Ball: The Senator offers Obama a Gitmo reprieve.”