“Officials petition for re-hearing in UHP crosses case”: The Deseret News has an update that begins, “A number of state officials are asking the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to re-consider its decision on the use of crosses to commemorate fallen officers from the Utah Highway Patrol.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Utah troopers want rehearing of highway cross case.”

“Appellate court overturns conviction in 2001 UW arson”: The Seattle Times has this blog post.

And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court reverses Wash. ecoterror conviction.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

You can access earlier news and commentary pertaining to the case here, here, here, and here.

“Lone Survivor of Home Invasion Gives Chilling Testimony”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

Today’s edition of The New Haven Register contains articles headlined “House of Horrors: Petit describes events of Cheshire home invasion” and “Juror dismissed from Petit trial after criticizing prosecution.”

And The Hartford Courant has a news update headlined “Police Expected To Testify Today In Hayes Case.”

“Judge Thomas Porteous was vulnerable to blackmail, Louis Marcotte says”: Bruce Alpert has this article today in The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” David Ingram has a post titled “Senate Schedule Proves Challenge for Impeachment Trial.”

C-SPAN.org continues to provide live, online coverage of the impeachment trial, which you can view by clicking here.

“Gun turned up after hands went up and pants fell down; Court upholds cop’s decision to pull up a suspect’s baggy jeans”: The Minneapolis Star Tribune today contains an article that begins, “White Castle, weed and baggy pants. It has all the elements of a comedy, but throw in a concealed handgun, a suspected drug deal and a wardrobe malfunction, and it’s a Minnesota Court of Appeals case that even compelled a judge to quote an ‘American Idol’ audition.”

And today’s edition of The St. Paul Pioneer Press contains an article headlined “An illegal search? No, a ‘wardrobe assist’; Court: Cop trying to help when she found hidden gun.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Minnesota Court of Appeals at this link.

“Miranda rights delay wipes out murder verdict”: Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article reporting on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued last week.

“Justices hear arguments on insurance in bus crash”: In today’s edition of The Toledo Blade, Jim Provance has an article that begins, “An emotional case involving a 2007 bus crash that killed seven people, including five members of Bluffton University’s baseball team, boiled down to legal definitions of two words Tuesday before the Ohio Supreme Court. The question of whether the survivors of that Georgia crash and the families of those killed may make claims under the university’s insurance policies in addition to that of the charter bus company will be determined by how the court defines the words ‘hire’ and ‘permission.'”

And in today’s edition of The Columbus Dispatch, James Nash reports that “Court weighs Bluffton crash blame.”

Via the web site of the Supreme Court of Ohio, you can access a preview of yesterday’s oral argument and the video of the oral argument itself.

“Menorah may stay, but without public money, court rules”: Today’s edition of The Poughkeepsie Journal contains an article that begins, “An 18-foot menorah that has adorned downtown Poughkeepsie for the past 20 holiday seasons may remain on city property when it goes up again this year, a state appellate court has affirmed. But the court also ruled the city may not spend public funds to help Rabbi Yacov Borenstein assemble the menorah or take it down.”

You can access the recent ruling of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, at this link.

“Comes a Horseman”: In the September 20, 2010 issue of National Review, Timothy Sandefur has a lengthy article that begins, “Franklin Roosevelt’s clash with the Supreme Court is one of history’s greatest legal dramas, but it has generated an unfair and misleading mythology.”

“Could Supreme Court put focus on NL again?” In today’s edition of The Day of New London, Connecticut, David Collins has an op-ed that begins, “Imagine if the U.S. Supreme Court were to step in some time soon to spotlight another New London injustice? This time, though, maybe the court could actually help right a wrong, rather than simply draw the nation’s attention to one, the taking by the city, in that previous case, of people’s homes by the misguided powers of eminent domain. In the newest possible case, Webster Smith, the black Coast Guard Academy cadet who was court-martialed here four years ago on bogus sexual misconduct charges, is taking his appeal to the Supreme Court.”

“Another trial run looms for cameras in federal courts”: Joan Biskupic has this article today in USA Today.