“Pa. Supreme Court in Phila. for video debut”: Emilie Lounsberry of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this news update.

“Appeals Court Warms to EPA’s Revised ‘Hot Spot’ Rule”: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has this report (via The New York Times).

“Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to Honor Memory of Senior Judge Thomas G. Nelson”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today.

“Protect Our Right to Anonymity”: In today’s edition of The New York Times, law professor Jeffrey Rosen has an op-ed that begins, “In November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could redefine the scope of privacy in an age of increasingly ubiquitous surveillance technologies like GPS devices and face-recognition software.”

“The Unconstitutionality of Supreme Court Recusal Standards”: Law professor Louis J. Virelli III has posted this article online at SSRN (via “Legal Theory Blog”).

“N.J. federal appeals court panel puts Carl Lewis back on ballot for state Senate race”: The Newark Star-Ledger has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Carl Lewis back on ballot in NJ senate race.”

You can access today’s order of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

“It’s a New Day for Openness in the Pa. Appellate Courts”: Today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer — Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers — contains this month’s installment of my “Upon further Review” column.

“Supreme Court is asked about jails’ blanket strip-search policies”: Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.

“Obama increases number of female, minority judges”: Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “President Barack Obama is moving at a historic pace to try to diversify the nation’s federal judiciary: Nearly three of every four people he has gotten confirmed to the federal bench are women or minorities. He is the first president who hasn’t selected a majority of white males for lifetime judgeships.”

“Conference Approves Standards & Procedures for Sealing Civil Cases”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has just issued this news release.

The Associated Press has a report headlined “Judges: Too many civil cases kept secret.”

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has a post titled “Judicial Conference Urges Restraint In Sealing Civil Cases.”