“Sacred Sessions: Why can’t we just vote on whether we pray to Jesus at county board meetings?” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

By a vote of 3-to-3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denies rehearing en banc of lawsuit in which U.S. citizen-residents of Puerto Rico seek the right to vote for a Representative to the U.S. House of Representatives: You can access today’s order denying rehearing en banc, and the opinions concurring in and dissenting from that order, at this link. The dissenting opinions devote a great deal of discussion to the standards for deciding whether a case qualifies for en banc review.

My earlier coverage of the original three-judge panel’s ruling can be accessed here.

“Appeals Court: ‘It’s Going To Get Ugly’ Was Not A Threat.” At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has this post reporting on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued yesterday.

“Appeals court here forces truce in ‘rum war'”: The Philadelphia Daily News has this update.

Bloomberg News reports that “Bacardi’s ‘Havana Club’ Rum Name Not False Advertising, Appeals Court Says.”

Reuters reports that “Pernod loses US appeal on Bacardi Havana Club rum; No false advertising in Bacardi’s Havana Club rum label; Pernod mulls options, may appeal.”

And the South Florida Business Journal has an article headlined “Appeals court: ‘Havana Club’ doesn’t mean ‘made in Cuba.’”

Circuit Judge Kent A. Jordan wrote today’s opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

“Justice Breyer offers perspective as Tunisia prepares to design a constitution”: Harvard Law School has issued this news release.

“Court to reconsider Ahmed Ressam’s sentence in millennium plot”: The Seattle Times contains this article today.

My earlier coverage of Tuesday’s Ninth Circuit order granting rehearing en banc can be accessed here.

“Obama Gets High Marks For Diversifying The Bench”: This audio segment (transcript with link to audio) appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”