“California Chief Justice Ronald George announces retirement”: Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News has this update.

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has a news update headlined “State Chief Justice Ron George to retire.”

And Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has a blog post titled “California Chief Justice Ronald George announces he will not run for reelection.”

Chief Justice Ronald M. George of the Supreme Court of California announces that he will leave the judiciary effective January 2, 2011: Some early coverage is available from the “CapitalAccounts” Twitter feed of The Recorder.

“In Obscenity Case, Washington Courtroom is Silent”: Mike Scarcella and Julio Menache have this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Mark Kernes of AVN News has items headlined “Stagliano Obscenity Trial: Testimony At Last!“; “AVN Reporter Airs Concerns on Stagliano Case in Letter to Court“; and “Stagliano Judge Rules Jury Need Not See Entire Movies.”

Additional coverage of the trial can be accessed at “The Sexist” blog of Washington City Paper.

“Judge blocks Neb. abortion law”: The Omaha World-Herald has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Judge blocks new Neb. abortion screening law.”

I have posted today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska at this link.

“Convictions reinstated in domestic violence gun case”: Bruce Vielmetti has this post today at the “Proof and Hearsay” blog of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

And at his “Sentencing Law and Policy” blog, law professor Doug Berman has a post titled “Skoien and the many challenges of Second Amendment jurisprudence.”

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s en banc Seventh Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Opposition stalls Kagan vote; GOP cites need to review; vote scheduled for July 20”: This article appears today in The Washington Times.

Today in The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage and James Oliphant report that “NRA urges opposition to Kagan; In a new ad, the group cites Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent vote to uphold a handgun ban; Meanwhile, the Senate Judiciary Committee delays its nomination vote a week.”

The Boston Globe reports that “Senate Republican delays Kagan nomination vote; Sessions sought more time to review her record.”

And at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein reports that “Elena Kagan foes court Senate Democrats.”

“Supreme immodesty: Why the justices play politics.” Stuart Taylor Jr. has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

“Naked mannequin creates a stir; Incident sparks debate over legal definition of ‘obscene'”: This article appeared last Saturday in The Beatrice (Neb.) Daily Sun.

“Tribal-rights advocates seek ‘fix’ in Congress”: The Providence (R.I.) Journal today contains an article that begins, “Tribal-rights advocates came in force to Capitol Hill Tuesday to ask Congress to undo last year’s Supreme Court ruling that made it harder for Native Americans to set their own rules for the use of certain lands — including the Rhode Island parcel at issue in the decision.”

“Should boy born 3 years after dad’s death get Social Security? In a highly unusual case, the Utah Supreme Court is considering the rights of a child born to a man who died three years earlier.” The Salt Lake Tribune contains this article today.

“Penn professor and students help win Supreme Court case”: This article appears today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.