“Porn Producer Fighting Rare Obscenity Case; Justice Department’s case against John Stagliano tests obscenity law”: Mike Scarcella of The National Law Journal has this report.

And Mark Kernes of AVN News reports that “Stagliano Jury Chosen.”

“Sonia Sotomayor to Publish Memoir”: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group issued this news release today.

“Anonymous Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: Concerned About Tampering, Threats, Judges Consider Withholding Identities.” This article appears today in The Wall Street Journal.

And, on a related note, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit today issued this order amending its earlier opinion in United States v. Blagojevich on the issue of withholding the names of jurors from the public.

Not lowering expectations: The home page of the web site of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit now features the following announcement:

Federal Circuit to Debut New Web Site

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will debut its new web site on Thursday, July 15, 2010. The new site features an elegant interface, enhanced search capabilities for opinions, orders and oral arguments, and Web 2.0 functionality such as RSS feeds.

It will be interesting to see what qualifies as “an elegant interface” with respect to the web site of a federal appellate court.

“‘Sonia Sotomayor: The True American Dream’ presents idolized vision.” This book review appeared yesterday in The Kansas City Star.

More information about the book can be accessed here.

“Obama, Republicans square off over courts”: George Curry had this op-ed yesterday in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“The Post-Gender Justice”: Online at The New Republic, Naomi Schoenbaum has an essay that begins, “The past few months have seen plenty of commentary about Elena Kagan’s status as one of only a few women ever nominated to the Supreme Court.”

“New ruling suggests high court may uphold health care law”: Today in The Chicago Sun-Times, Abdon M. Pallasch has an article that begins, “A little-noticed case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court this term could signal a willingness by conservative justices to accept President Obama’s health-care plan as constitutional, according to a University of Chicago law professor.”

“Khadr decision to fire lawyers throws hearings into doubt; Canadian charged with terrorism could opt reject his defence team’s attempt to suppress evidence”: This article appears today in The Toronto Globe and Mail.

In today’s edition of The Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg reports that “Young captive could defend himself; Can a terror suspect who was captured as a teen and has spent a third of his life at Guantanamo be his own attorney? The war court will decide.”

And Saturday’s edition of The New York Times reported that “Pentagon Ends Guantanamo Reporters’ Ban.”