“Federal Judiciary Braces for Possible Government Shutdown”: Mike Scarcella has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Notwithstanding this blog’s generally woeful coverage of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces: This afternoon, I received the following email from someone affiliated with that court:

Good Afternoon Sir/Madam,

Our Chief Judge Andrew S. Effron has asked that I contact How Appealing in reference to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces 2011 Judicial Conference to be held at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, March 9-10. Would it be possible to display the attached information on your website?

Instead of my displaying that information, which merely lists the scheduled speakers, you can access the entire Schedule of Events (including the speakers for each session) by clicking here. I won’t be speaking at that event, but law professors Doug Berman, Bernard Hibbitts, and Stephen Gillers will be. In addition, attorney Andrew J. Pincus will speak on the topic “Litigating in Today’s Supreme Court.”

“Gubernatorial appointments render Iowa one of only three states with all-male high court”: The National Center for State Courts issued this backgrounder today.

Update: An email that I’ve just received from the NCSC organization states, “The tabular information in the NCSC Backgrounder titled ‘Gubernatorial Appointments Render Iowa One of Only Three States with All-Male High Court’ contained significant errors. A corrected and accurate version will be released tomorrow, Feb. 25.” As a result, the link to the document provided above no longer works. Stay tuned, as I will link to the corrected version tomorrow once I’m alerted to its existence.

Upcoming CLE presentations: Over lunch on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, I will be one of the panelists at a Philadelphia Bar Association Antitrust Law Committee CLE Program titled “DeBeers: Class Action Settlements in Antitrust Cases.”

And exactly four months from today, on Friday, June 24, 2011, I will be one of six panelists speaking on the subject of “Opening Up: Can the Courts Be More Open and Better Understood?” at the Judicial Conference of the Fourth Circuit taking place in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The New Yorker‘s Jeffrey Toobin will also be participating as a speaker on that panel.

“Law Profs Urge Ethics Rules for Supreme Court Justices”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Attorney-Client Privilege Is a Two-Way Street, High Court Rules”: The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers, has posted online a news update written by Gina Passarella that begins, “Pennsylvania lawyers finally have some guidance from the state Supreme Court about the status of the attorney-client privilege after the justices ruled Thursday that it attaches not only to communication from the client to the lawyer, but to communications going the other way around as well.”

Yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania consists of a majority opinion and two dissenting opinions (here and here).

“Goodwin Liu to Get Second Hearing”: David Ingram has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Feds Appeal Warrantless-Wiretapping Defeat”: At Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post that begins, “The Obama administration is appealing the first — and likely only — lawsuit resulting in a ruling against the National Security Agency’s secret warrantless-surveillance program adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks.”

And in other coverage, Bob Egelko reported in Sunday’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle that “U.S. appeals ruling that warrantless wiretap illegal.”

In commentary available online at Slate: Dahlia Lithwick has a jurisprudence essay entitled “Indefensible: Why the Obama administration changed its mind about the Defense of Marriage Act.”

And Arthur Allen has an essay entitled “The Real Problem With Vaccines: Our system for compensating injured children is hurting–and this week’s Supreme Court ruling doesn’t help.”

“Same-sex marriage: Courts expected to heed Obama move.” Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

And in today’s edition of The San Jose Mercury News, Howard Mintz reports that “Same-sex couples urge immediate resumption of gay marriages.”

“Judge Waits To Rule On Bid To Change Komisarjevsky Trial Site”: The Hartford Courant today contains an article that begins, “In rejecting concerns by defense attorneys last year that widespread pretrial publicity prejudiced prospective jurors in the first Cheshire home-invasion killings trial, Judge Jon C. Blue cited Connecticut’s unique jury selection system as a means to screen for bias.”

And today’s edition of The New Haven Register reports that “Komisarjevsky lawyers argue for venue change; ‘Pre-judgment of guilt’ found in expert’s survey.”

“Attorney general mum on refusal to defend gay unions ban”: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review today contains an article that begins, “U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking yesterday at Duquesne University, declined to address the Obama administration’s decision to stop defending a federal law banning same-sex marriage.”

“Is Anyone Watching?” Linda Greenhouse has this post at the “Opinionator” blog of The New York Times.

“Branstad taps three for Supreme Court; ‘The ones I chose were the best'”: This article appears today in The Des Moines Register.

Today’s edition of The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi contains an article headlined “Gov. selects King for state high court; Choice ‘was very clear,’ Barbour says of judicial appointee.”

And The Hartford Courant reports that “Malloy Nominates Lubbie Harper Jr. To State Supreme Court; Appellate Judge Would Fill Vacancy Left By Joette Katz.”

“Bill aims to bar gay marriage, review by court”: Today’s edition of The Des Moines Register contains an article that begins, “County recorders would be prohibited from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and the Iowa Supreme Court would be unable to rule on the issue under a bill sponsored by six conservative House Republicans.”

“Tapes reveal Thurgood Marshall’s rocky road to the Supreme Court”: Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report. And a related item is headlined “Johnson to Marshall: ‘I have a rather big problem.’”

“Betty Boop creator’s family loses copyright case”: Reuters has this report.

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

“Third Circuit Court hears appeal on federal DNA collection”: Nathan Gorenstein has this article today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

And on Monday, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review previewed the oral argument in an article headlined “DNA collection before conviction fought in federal court.”

You can access the audio of yesterday’s spirited oral argument before the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit via this link (73.0MB Windows Media audio file).