“Media Seek Looser Guantanamo Rules”: Wednesday’s edition of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, “After nearly a decade of uneasy coexistence at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon and the media are now locked in a dispute that will test how strictly the government can limit what reporters there are allowed to reveal.”

“Looking for Time Bombs and Tea Leaves on Gay Marriage”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Feds Lose Stagliano Obscenity Case–First in Over 30 Years”: Mark Kernes, who covered the trial for AVN News, has this report.

“Justice Potter Stewart’s Papers Reveal Friends in High Places”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Judiciary panel OKs Elena Kagan for Supreme Court”: The Associated Press has this report, along with a report headlined “Obama hails Senate committee vote approving Kagan.”

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” David Ingram has posts titled “Kagan Clears One Hurdle, Heads for Next” and “In Letter, Elena Kagan Praises Miguel Estrada.”

Your appellate brief is too long, Third Circuit tells the prosecution in the Vince Fumo appeal: In an order issued today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ordered that nearly 11,000 words be trimmed from the brief.

My earlier coverage of the federal government’s efforts to file a gargantuan appellate brief can be accessed here and here.

“Judiciary expected to approve Kagan for Supreme Court”: The Hill has this report.

CNN.com reports that “Senate Judiciary Committee to vote on Kagan nomination.”

The Associated Press has reports headlined “Committee vote Tuesday on Kagan court nomination” and “Top Judiciary Republican to oppose Kagan.”

And Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Elena Kagan denies ‘substantive’ discussion of health-care case; Senate Republicans are worried that, as solicitor general, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan advised President Obama about litigation against health-care reform — a potential issue if the litigation makes it to the Supreme Court.”

You can view C-SPAN’s live coverage of this morning’s confirmation vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee by clicking here.