“Michael Dreeben on Supreme Court Advocacy, Appellate Practice, and the SG’s Office”: Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“The Right To Remain Silent: Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court silences are less worrisome than his private speeches.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And Bloomberg News columnist Ann Woolner has an essay entitled “When Keeping Your Mouth Shut Doesn’t Make Sense.”

“Graves says he feels ‘pressure’ to do good job”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Mississippi Supreme Court Justice James Graves says he’ll feel pressure to do a good job on the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans.”

“Judge again opens door to habeas challenges from Bagram”: Josh Gerstein has this post at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com.

“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will deliver the keynote address at the 30th Annual Federalist Society Student Symposium.” More information is available from the web site of the University of Virginia School of Law by clicking here.

Brief opposing Pa. Supreme Court review filed yesterday: Yesterday I filed in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania this brief in opposition to a petition for allowance of appeal.

The Pa. Superior Court‘s ruling in the case can be accessed here. This blog’s earlier coverage of the case can be accessed here, here, and here.

“Appeals court overturns release of Gitmo detainee”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has a post titled “D.C. Appeals Court Overturns Guantanamo Detainee’s Release.”

By a vote of 6-5, the en banc Ninth Circuit holds that “capital defendants do not have a per se constitutional right to inquire about the possibility that a penalty-phase jury has reached a preliminary decision against imposing the death penalty”: You can access today’s en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

The lead dissenting opinion, by contrast, begins with a somewhat different view of the case: “By all indications, the jurors in James Harrison’s capital trial had decided to acquit him of the death penalty. They had informed the trial judge that they were deadlocked between life with parole and life without parole.”

“Chapman Kelley’s Mutilated Garden: The Seventh Circuit is set to decide if the Park District had the right to destroy an artwork.” This article appeared in the December 3, 2009 issue of Chicago Reader.

And even earlier, The Art Newspaper published an article headlined “Artist Chapman Kelley launches federal appeal over Chicago Wildflower work; Challenges ruling that work is not original enough to be protected by US copyright law.”

Today, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued this ruling on the case.

“Feds ask court to hide photos showing Loughner injuries”: Josh Gerstein has this post today at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com.

“Panel OKs bill saying life starts at conception”: The Des Moines Register contains this article today.

“Barry Bonds Trial May Test Tweeting Jurors”: Ginny LaRoe of The Recorder has this report.

“Bid to expand Arizona’s high court dies in committee”: Howard Fischer has this article today in The East Valley Tribune.

“Legislators want role in same-sex divorce case”: The Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune contains this article today.

“Orie employees testify that they did political work on state time”: This article appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

And today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review contains an article headlined “Witness: Staffers pretended to be Jane Orie in campaign calls.”

“10% turnout expected for Tuesday primary; Supreme Court race is only statewide contest”: Today’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contains an article that begins, “As few as one in 10 Wisconsin voters could decide Tuesday how to narrow the field for a seat on the state Supreme Court, state election officials say.”

“Graves confirmed to 5th Circuit; Miss. justice appointed to serve on federal bench”: Jerry Mitchell has this article today in The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi.

“Dancing at the Jefferson Memorial: Prohibited Behavior?” At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has this post about an appeal argued yesterday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.