“Investiture Ceremony Slated for Ninth Circuit Judge Mary H. Murguia”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued this news release.

“Wisconsin’s Battle Supreme: Liberals in the state are trying to make the April election for a state supreme court justice a referendum on Governor Walker.” This “Political Diary” essay appears online at WSJ.com.

“Judge who presided over Abscam cases to step down”: The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update that begins, “U.S. District Judge John Fullam, who presided over such notable cases as the Abscam political corruption probe and the landmark bankruptcy of the Penn Central, said Wednesday that he plans to step down.”

“The future of Miranda: From the edge of a rhetorical slippery slope, and then back from it, the Court explores what would happen to Miranda rights in the future if they were to be extended to minors facing police questioning.” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

At the “School Law” blog of Education Week, Mark Walsh has a post titled “Justices Weigh Youths’ Miranda Rights.”

Barbara Barrett of McClatchy Newspapers reports that “Justices weigh Miranda warnings for juvenile suspects.”

And Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press reports that “Court weighs if age should figure into questioning.”

You can access the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in J.D.B. v. North Carolina, No. 09-11121, by clicking here.

“Justices Take Up Case on Negligent Design Drug Claim”: Amaris Elliott-Engel has this article, in which I am quoted, in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

“Wave of anti-abortion bills advance in the states”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Class Actions at the Crossroads: An Answer to Wal-Mart v. Dukes.” The Harvard Law & Policy Review has posted online this article by law professor Suzette M. Malveaux.

“Senior judges ease ‘a very serious shortage'”: Today’s edition of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania contains an article that begins, “At age 96, long after his contemporaries have retired, U.S. Middle District Senior Judge Malcolm Muir still comes to work every day, minus the occasional holiday.”

Three-judge Ninth Circuit panel issues order denying motion to vacate stay on same-sex marriages in California: The docket entry text of the order, which has just been filed, states:

Filed order (STEPHEN R. REINHARDT, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS and N. RANDY SMITH) Having considered all of the factors set forth in Nken v. Holder, 129 S. Ct. 1749, 1756 (2009), and all of the facts and circumstances surrounding Plaintiffs’ motion to vacate the stay pending appeal, as well as the standard for vacatur set forth in Southeast Alaska Conservation Council v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 472 F.3d 1097, 1101 (9th Cir. 2006), we deny Plaintiffs’ motion at this time.

The order should be available via this link in the very near future.

Update: The Ninth Circuit has posted the order at this link.

“Women Seeking Abortions in South Dakota to Get Anti-Abortion Advice”: A.G. Sulzberger has this article today in The New York Times.

And today’s edition of The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, South Dakota contains articles headlined “Lawsuit looms after abortion bill signed; Law’s backers raising money to defend it” and “Crisis pregnancy centers thrust into new role.”

“Top court justice Meierhenry retiring; She was state’s first woman at highest level”: Today’s edition of The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, South Dakota contains an article that begins, “South Dakota’s first female Supreme Court justice will retire in June.”

“Lawyers ask for review of ex-judge Camp’s rulings, sentences”: Today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bill Rankin has an article that begins, “Before he was sentenced for crimes he committed with a stripper, Jack Camp made a striking disclosure: The former federal judge revealed he has long suffered from a misdiagnosed bipolar disorder and brain damage from an accident more than a decade earlier. The revelations have lawyers wondering whether justice was meted out by an impaired jurist.”

“High court unlikely to grant right to lawyer”: The Associated Press has this report.