“High court allows gay military ban for now”: The Associated Press has this report.

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Military gay ban intact.”

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“Veteran With Case Before Supreme Court Has Died”: Lawrence Hurley has this post at his “Washington Briefs” blog.

“W.D. Childers’ case going to federal court”: Yesterday’s edition of The Pensacola News Journal contained an article that begins, “A federal appeals court will rehear the case it overturned earlier this year against former state Senate President and former Escambia County Commissioner W.D. Childers.”

And The Associated Press has this report.

You can access Wednesday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link.

The now-vacated ruling that a divided three-judge Eleventh Circuit panel issued in this case in June 2010 can be accessed here.

“State cools threat to blogger over food stamp post”: Jonathan Saltzman has this article today in The Boston Globe. The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled “State’s error, not muckraker’s.”

“Lame ducks vs. the Constitution”: Law professor Bruce Ackerman has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

“Video Games and the First Amendment”: This editorial appears today in The New York Times.