“Judge behind the ‘Taj Mahal’ takes demotion on appeals court”: This article will appear Saturday in The St. Petersburg Times.

“Scalia at UR: Stick to Constitution’s original meaning.” The Richmond Times-Dispatch has this news update.

“D.C. Circuit Denies En Banc Review in GPS Surveillance Case”: Mike Scarcella has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

That blog has posted today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, accompanied by a concurrence and two dissents, at this link.

Oddly, the order states that three of the D.C. Circuit’s nine active judges would grant the rehearing petition, but a total of four active judges have joined in a dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc. Either the order contains an error, or Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson was agnostic, believing that rehearing en banc should neither be granted nor denied.

“Scalia on cameras, retirement and the ‘brave new world'”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this news update.

“Congress passes bill to stop ‘crush videos'”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Gov’t audit finds lax security at US courthouses”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Security training at some federal courthouses is so ineffective that it took almost eight years for some security officers to learn how to turn on X-ray machine software that would detect guns and explosives, a Justice Department audit of courthouse security operations said Friday.”

You can access at this link the report of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General titled “Audit of the United States Marshals Service’s Oversight of its Judicial Facilities Security Program.”

“Federal judge pleads guilty to drug charge”: Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a news update that begins, “Former senior U.S. District Judge Jack Camp, whose arrest on charges of buying drugs and his relationship with a stripper shocked the state’s legal community, pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges. He resigned his position Friday morning, a condition of the plea deal.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Federal judge pleads guilty to 2 drug charges.”

“Kill Calder v. Jones!” At “The Volokh Conspiracy,” David Post has this entry about a petition for writ of certiorari that the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic recently filed in the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Scalia ‘Wouldn’t Have Liked’ Being Chief Justice”: David Ingram has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Oregon Supreme Court decides certified question from Ninth Circuit, limits Oregon’s power to collect a share of punitive damages verdicts”: Curt Cutting has this interesting post at the “California Punitive Damages” blog about a ruling that the Supreme Court of Oregon issued last Friday.

In posts of interest at the “School Law” blog of Education Week: Mark Walsh has posts titled “Court: State Law Barred Teacher Sex With 18-Year-Old” and “Another Court Upholds School Bar on Confederate Flag.”

My coverage of those rulings appears here and here.

“Is This The Year’s Most Liberal Video Game?” The web site Kotaku has a report about the video game “Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood” that begins, “Sure, video games let us shoot at Fidel Castro and play as former Presidents, but where’s the game that attacks our favorite conservative Supreme Court Justices? If you don’t mind spoilers or hate the Citizens United decision, keep reading.”

“Pa. high court outlaws ban on public comment at City Council meetings”: The Philadelphia Inquirer contains this front page article today.

Yesterday’s 4-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania consists of a majority opinion and a dissenting opinion.

“Stevens gets a promotion; Peers elect Hazle Township native Superior Court president judge”: This article appears today in The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

And The Citizens Voice of Wilkes-Barre reports today that “Stevens elected president judge of state Superior Court.”

“High court hears challenges to attorney general’s authority”: Today’s edition of The Seattle Times contains an article that begins, “Did state Attorney General Rob McKenna overstep his authority when he signed up Washington as one of at least 20 states challenging the constitutionality of the federal health-care-reform law? And now that Gov. Chris Gregoire is preparing a brief defending the federal law in the same case, who really speaks for the state? Those were some of the questions the state Supreme Court grappled with Thursday as it heard oral arguments on Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes’ request that the court order McKenna to withdraw from the federal case.”

And The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington reports today that “State agency, city fight McKenna’s suit over Obama health care plan.”

“Ghailani Verdict Reignites Debate Over the Proper Court for Terrorism Trials”: Charlie Savage has this article today in The New York Times.

The newspaper also contains a front page article headlined “At Terror Trial, Big Questions Were Avoided.”

“Judge Camp to plead guilty Friday”: This article appears today in The Times-Herald of Newnan, Georgia.

“Thank the Courts”: Linda Greenhouse has this post at the “Opinionator” blog of The New York Times.