“Justices discover they’re sisters, in law”: Today’s edition of The Columbus Dispatch contains an article that begins, “They blazed new trails when they took the oath of office in January — Maureen O’Connor as the state’s first female chief justice and Yvette McGee Brown as the first African-American female justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.”

“The Supreme Court closes the door to justice; The Supreme Court seems to have lost faith in the American court system”: Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky will have this op-ed Wednesday in The Los Angeles Times.

“Should the Government Need a Search Warrant to Track Your Car with GPS?” Adam Cohen has this essay online at Time magazine’s web site.

What constitutes “good cause” for an extension of time in which to file a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to review a ruling of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands? A judge serving on the Third Circuit today issued this opinion addressing that issue.

“Different Kinds of Wrong: The difference between Obama’s Libya policy and Bush’s torture policy.” Law professor Dawn Johnsen has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Lawyers on TV whose last name starts with “Bash”: Of course there’s the TNT network’s fictional “Franklin & Bash,” whose next episode airing tomorrow night will feature guest star Jason Alexander.

And then there’s your friendly appellate law blogger host here at “How Appealing,” whose recent appearance as a panelist at the Fourth Circuit‘s Judicial Conference was televised at 3 p.m. eastern time yesterday on C-SPAN. If you were not glued to C-SPAN on the afternoon of July 4th (and I can attest that I too was not), you can watch the program online, on demand via this link.

“A States’ Rights Advocate Upholds Obamacare”: Law professor David Cole has this post today at the blog of The New York Review of Books.

Access online MoloLamken’s Supreme Court Business Briefing: Via this link.

“Appeals court: No forced meds for Tucson suspect.” The Associated Press has this report on an order that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued on Saturday.

“Michigan Voters v. The Royal Court”: Jennifer Gratz has this essay online at The Michigan View.com.

“Supreme Court Isn’t Pro-Business, But Should Be”: Ramesh Ponnuru has this essay online at Bloomberg News.

“Arizona conservatives scramble after campaign finance law’s defeat; The state’s Clean Elections Act had swept a surge of small-government Republicans into power”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.