“Courthouse peephole suspect gets new charges”: In yesterday’s issue of The Beaver County (Pa.) Times, J.D. Prose had an article that begins, “Prosecutors have withdrawn 20 invasion-of-privacy charges filed last month against a former Beaver County employee, but he faces seven new charges for creating a peephole and spying on women in a courthouse restroom.” (via ABA Journal’s “Law News Now” blog).

“Appeals Courts Criticize Child Porn Sentencing Guidelines”: Shannon P. Duffy has this article today in The Legal Intelligencer.

You can access Tuesday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

Birthday edition of in Bashman news from Australia: The Bayside Bulletin reports today that “Intruders tie up and bash man with stick.”

“Collar bomb defendant profane in court; Woman says her attorney is ‘getting on her nerves'”: Paula Reed Ward has this article today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

And today’s edition of The Erie (Pa.) Times-News contains an article headlined “Closing arguments expected today in Erie ‘pizza bomber’ trial.”

“Justice O’Connor, Arizona group spar over robocalls”: Josh Gerstein has this post at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com.

“The Age of Alzheimer’s”: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Stanley Prusiner, and Ken Dychtwald have this op-ed today in The New York Times.

“Appeal spiked: L’Anse Creuse teacher can’t be fired for lewd act.” The Detroit News has an update that begins, “The Michigan Supreme Court won’t get involved in a dispute between a school district and a teacher who was photographed simulating sex acts on a mannequin at a boating party. The court’s refusal today to review L’Anse Creuse Public Schools’ request to argue against a lower court’s ruling means middle school teacher Anna Land can’t be fired for her actions and she’ll be allowed to continue working.”

“Mississippi voters can decide ‘personhood’; Pro-lifers to get question on ballot”: This article will appear Thursday in The Washington Times.

And today’s edition of The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi contains an article headlined “‘Personhood’ appeal set; Judge refuses to block initiative defining beginning of life.”

“Bloody Video Games May Get Same Age Curbs as Porn in Court Case”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“The Ethics of Justice O’Connor’s Robo-Calls”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Ninth Circuit, Law Schools See Educational Opportunity in Arizona Immigration Case”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today.

“Judge grants injunction vs new Mass. obscenity law”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction sought by free-speech advocates who argued that a new Massachusetts law aimed at protecting children from online sexual predators effectively bans from the Internet anything that may be considered ‘harmful to minors,’ including material adults have the right to view.”

“Antitrust suit against Inbev, AB again fails”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A bid by 10 beer consumers who sued to block InBev’s now-completed takeover of U.S. beer giant Anheuser-Busch on antitrust grounds again has fallen flat.”

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

“Advocate appeals secret Kan. case to Supreme Court”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “An advocate for chronic pain patients who is under investigation for obstruction of justice has challenged grand jury subpoenas in a rare case that climbed secretly through the judicial system to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

“2008 Joe Francis Lawsuit Morphs into Free Speech Test Case; Women filmed as minors by GGW in 2002 want to keep their names out of the public record”: AVN News has a report that begins, “A 2008 lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis and two companies he operates, filed by four women who accused the GGW team of filming them flashing their breasts when they were underage, has become a free speech test case that was argued [yesterday] before a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.”

You can access a copy of the complaint initiating suit by clicking here.

“Expert: Hayes no risk; Psychologist claims violent behavior in prison unlikely.” This article appears today in The New Haven Register, along with an article headlined “Komisarjevsky lawyer avoids contempt hearing, for now.”

And today’s edition of The Hartford Courant contains articles headlined “Psychologist: Steven Hayes Would Have ‘Positive Adjustment’ If Sentenced To Life In Prison” and “Judge Withholds Ruling In Contempt Hearing In Cheshire Case; Says If Necessary He’ll Refer Case To Another Judge.”

“Diehl-Armstrong resumes stand today in ‘pizza bomber’ trial”: Today in The Erie (Pa.) Times-News, Ed Palattella has an article that begins, “Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong eventually will testify about what she was doing the afternoon of Aug. 28, 2003 — the day Brian Wells, a pizza deliveryman she said she never knew, was killed when the bomb locked to his neck exploded. But before she gets to that critical point in her federal trial in Erie, Diehl-Armstrong is likely to explain to the jury just about everything else that happened to her before and after the moment Wells died. She certainly took that approach on Tuesday, the first day she took the witness stand in her own defense in the ‘pizza bomber’ case.”

And today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Paula Reed Ward reports that “Collar-bomb defendant takes stand.”

“Corporate campaign ads haven’t followed Supreme Court’s prediction; Companies and unions have been able to avoid the transparency called for in the court’s landmark ruling; Spending on next week’s midterm election has been exorbitant”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“For Clarence Thomas, an ordeal is renewed”: Columnist Kathleen Parker has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

And today in The Chicago Tribune, law professor Steven Lubet has an op-ed entitled “Let the justices be the judge.”

“Court voids Arizona law on voter proof of citizenship”: This article appears today in The Arizona Republic.

Today in The Arizona Daily Star, Howard Fischer has an article headlined “Court voids citizenship voter proof.”

The Tucson Sentinel reports that “Arizona law requiring proof of voter citizenship struck down; Proposition 200’s ID at polls upheld, proof of citizenship to register invalidated.”

And Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “State can’t ask voters for citizenship proof.”

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Arizona executes inmate after federal judge lifts stay”: Today’s edition of The Arizona Republic contains an article that begins, “In only the second Arizona execution since 2000, convicted killer Jeffrey Landrigan died by lethal injection late Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court removed the last legal barrier.”

“Government’s ‘Duty to Defend’ Not a Given; In recent years, DOJ declined to fight for federal laws at least 13 times”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Argument preview: Kids and video games.” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor on Life and the Supreme Court; Some of Nation’s Most Influential Women Gather at Women’s Conference in California”: ABCNews.com has this report.

“Arizona AG: Execution drug came from Great Britain.” The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Arizona attorney general’s office says the state’s supply of a scarce lethal injection drug was obtained from England. This is the first time a state has acknowledged obtaining sodium thiopental from an overseas source since a shortage of the drug started affecting executions in the U.S. this year.”

“Court Voids Arizona Law on Voter Proof of Citizenship”: Bloomberg News has this report.

My earlier coverage of today’s Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“USS Cole families press legal claims against Sudan”: The Associated Press has this report about a case argued today before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

“Ninth Circuit, on 2-1 Vote with Strong Kozinksi Dissent, Holds that Arizona Requirement of Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote is Preempted by the National Voter Registration Act”: Law professor Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog” about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

Circuit Judge Sandra S. Ikuta wrote the majority opinion, in which retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor — sitting by designation — joined. It is interesting to note that, after law school, Ikuta first clerked for Judge Kozinski on the Ninth Circuit before going on to clerk for Justice O’Connor at the U.S. Supreme Court.

I know that it is fairly common for a federal appellate judge to serve on a three-judge panel with a judge for whom he or she had clerked following law school. I cannot help but wonder, however, whether any federal appellate judge had previously served as law clerk to both of the other two judges serving on a particular three-judge federal appellate court panel.

Order of en banc Ninth Circuit referring case to appellate mediation sparks dissents: An eleven-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today issued this order, accompanied by two dissents and a statement concurring in the order.

“U.S. Supreme Court Increasingly Favors Business, Study Says”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

My post from this morning that linked to the study can be accessed here.

“Fed Won’t Join Bank Supreme Court Appeal on Loan Disclosures”: Bob Ivry and Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News have this report.

“‘Girls Gone Wild’ suit sets up free speech battle”: The Associated Press has this report about a case pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

“Arizona execution on hold, drug issue under review”: The Arizona Republic has a news update that begins, “The execution of convicted killer Jeffrey Landrigan, which was scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday morning, has been put on hold. A judge from 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a restraining order sometime before 2 a.m. Tuesday. But later in the morning, another judge on the court requested that a larger panel review the order. That could take until noon before the Supreme Court considers the case.”

You can access this morning’s ruling of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“A Tale of Two Courts: Comparing Corporate Rulings by the Roberts and Burger Courts.” The Constitutional Accountability Center issued this study today. A related news release can be accessed here.

“Evil Men in Black Robes: Slate’s judicial election campaign ad spooktacular!” Richard L. Hasen and Dahlia Lithwick have this essay online at Slate.