“Same-sex marriage case: Maybe the Supreme Court won’t answer the Ninth Circuit’s question or it will do so summarily.” David Ettinger has this post at the blog “At the Lectern.”

“Is the Supreme Court a ‘Majoritarian’ Institution?” Law professor Richard H. Pildes has posted this article online at SSRN (via “Legal Theory Blog“).

“Appeals court reverses Tulsa man’s child-porn conviction”: The Tulsa World has a news update that begins, “A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed the conviction of a Tulsa man who had been sentenced in 2009 to 11 years in prison after being found guilty of knowingly receiving child pornography. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that the prosecution did not offer sufficient evidence to prove that Terry Brian Dobbs knowingly received the images that formed the basis of his conviction.”

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

“Judge Robert Chatigny Drops Off Obama’s List Of Nominees For 2nd Circuit Court Of Appeals”: The Hartford Courant has this news update.

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” David Ingram has a post titled “Obama Suffers First Defeat on Judge Picks.”

“Appeals court OKs Narragansett orange-sticker policy”: The Providence (R.I.) Journal has a blog post that begins, “A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled constitutional the Town of Narragansett’s controversial policy of plastering orange stickers on the front doors of so-called party houses.”

And The Narragansett Patch has a news update headlined “Federal Court Finds in Favor of Town’s Sticker Policy; The court denies all aspects of the URI Student Senate’s appeal.”

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

“Sidley Austin’s Seitz Is Picked for DOJ Post”: David Ingram has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

You can access the official White House announcement at this link.

“Obama Renominates More Than 40 Judicial Candidates”: Sam Stein has this entry at “The Huffington Post.”

“N.J. Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of Christie’s education cuts”: The Newark Star-Ledger has this news update.

Bloomberg News reports that “N.J. Supreme Court Weighs School Cuts Amid Impasse.”

And The Associated Press reports that “NJ top court has tough questions on school funding.”

“Feisty battles expected in spring; Supreme Court justice race could become heated”: This article appears today in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire is reporting: Today, he has an article headlined “Texas Faces Uphill Legal Battle Against EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regs.”

And on Monday, he had an article headlined “Lawyers Still Cleaning Up Over Superfund Sites.”

“Police-Created Exigent Circumstances: Thoughts on Kentucky v. King.” Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Court OKs blind student’s software for bar exam”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

And Metropolitan News-Enterprise reports today that “Court Orders Accommodations for Blind Bar Examinee.”

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

“Court vacancies here to stay?” Politico.com has this report.

“Snyder’s pick to head agency has major Supreme Court implications”: The Detroit Free Press today contains an article that begins, “Gov. Rick Snyder’s expected appointment of state Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan to head the Department of Human Services could be stalled by pressure to quickly name a conservative replacement on the court, or not make the appointment at all.”

And The Detroit News reports that “Snyder to name Corrigan to Cabinet; Sources say conservative Supreme Court justice to lead Human Services.”

“Battle Over Education Funding on Docket”: Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal contains an article that begins, “One of the most controversial cases in the New Jersey Supreme Court’s history will be back before justices Wednesday, as an advocate for urban-school funding challenges Gov. Chris Christie’s education budget cuts.”

And Bloomberg News reports that “N.J. Supreme Court to Weigh School Funding Cuts Amid Impasse.”

“Birthright Citizenship Looms as Next Immigration Battle”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

And today in The Wall Street Journal, James C. Ho has an op-ed entitled “Birthright Citizenship and the 14th Amendment: Opponents of illegal immigration cannot claim to champion the rule of law and then propose policies that violate our Constitution.” You can freely access the full text of the op-ed via Google News.

“Scalia to talk about Constitution to House members; The Supreme Court justice’s decision elicits criticism that he’s showing ‘exceedingly poor judgment’; Some worry the court is injecting itself into partisan politics”: James Oliphant and David G. Savage have this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

The January 2011 issue of California Lawyer contains this interview with Justice Antonin Scalia.

And today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial entitled “There He Goes Again.”