Article and essays of note available online from SSRN: Lee Petherbridge and David L. Schwartz have an article titled “An Empirical Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Use of Legal Scholarship” (via “Legal Theory Blog“).

Adam D. Chandler has an essay titled “Slow and Steady: David Souter’s Life in the Law” (via “Legal Theory Blog“).

And Dan Markel has an essay entitled “A Judge for Justice” (via “Legal Theory Blog“).

“2 N.J. teens labeled sex offenders for life after ‘horseplay’ incident”: The Newark Star-Ledger has this report on a ruling that the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, issued on Monday.

And The Associated Press reports that “2 NJ teens face Megan’s Law registration.”

“Court overturns convictions for threatening Obama”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, Carol J. Williams reports that “Court reverses conviction in online rant against Obama; A Southern California man’s racist post in 2008 suggesting that the then-presidential candidate should be shot is lawful online speech, not a crime, according to a divided federal appeals court.”

And in March 2010, San Diego City Beat published an article about the case headlined “Talking smack: A small threat against Obama has massive consequences.”

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Ninth Circuit ruling appears here, here, and here.