“Unappealing: The Supreme Court is less interested in ruling on Obama’s health care law than you think.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Justices Will Hear Appeals on Immigrants’ Residence”: Adam Liptak will have this article Wednesday in The New York Times.

“Oral Argument in the DC Circuit Mandate Case”: Randy Barnett has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

And at “ACSblog,” Simon Lazarus has a post titled “In Under-Reported D.C. Circuit Oral Argument, Prominent Republican Judges Suggest Novel Arguments for Upholding Health Care Law’s Individual Mandate.”

“Court puts gay marriage trial videos back on hold”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court has put the brakes on unsealing video recordings of last year’s trial on the constitutionality of California’s same-sex marriage ban.”

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

En banc Fifth Circuit rules that the First Amendment prohibits religious viewpoint discrimination at the elementary school level but that the school officials being sued are entitled to qualified immunity: The en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its ruling today in Morgan v. Swanson, which is perhaps better known as the “legend of the candy cane” case.

The en banc court’s decision totals 100 pages and consists of eight separate opinions.

The final section of Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod‘s opinion, which constitutes the majority opinion on the issue of whether the First Amendment prohibits religious viewpoint discrimination at the elementary school level and a dissenting opinion on the issue of qualified immunity, begins:

Imagine the United States of America where the First Amendment protects a minor’s right to play violent video games, a person’s right to hatefully protest the funerals of our heroic men and women in the miliary, and the right to possess portrayals depicting animal cruelty, such as videos of people crushing kittens with their shoes, but does not protect a child’s right to share a pencil with another child at school merely because the pencil says the word “Jesus.”

My earlier coverage of this case appears at this link.

“5th Circ. says class action money must go to class, not charity”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Class photo of new Supreme Court”: The Associated Press has posted online this video (via The Washington Post) from last year.

And online at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen has an essay entitled “Supreme Court Preview: The Roberts Legacy Term?”

“Supreme Court to hear deportation case”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“Towards a Better Measure and Understanding Of U.S. Supreme Court Review of Courts of Appeals Decisions”: Attorneys John S. Summers and Michael J. Newman of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller have this article in today’s issue of The United States Law Week. Additional information about that law firm’s “Supreme Court Project” can be accessed here.

“As Federal Crime List Grows, Threshold of Guilt Declines”: Gary Fields and John R. Emshwiller have this article today in The Wall Street Journal.

“Supreme Court Will Rule on Immunity for Outside Counsel”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “New cases taken — and not.”

“Tax-Shelter Dispute Will Get Top Court Hearing”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Senators Reach Deal on 10 Judicial Nominees”: David Ingram has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Lee residents prepare to battle Big Tobacco; First of about 150 plaintiffs heads to court”: This article appears today in The News-Press of Fort Myers, Florida.

The Associated Press is reporting: In coverage of today’s U.S. Supreme Court order list, The AP has reports headlined “High court to decide lawyer immunity question” and “Court to review rules for some deportations.”

“Justice John Paul Stevens Talks Death Penalty, Citizens United, New Memoir”: Mike Sacks has this report at The Huffington Post.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court today granted review in seven new cases.

“Obama Lawyers Signal Likely Supreme Court Appeal on Health Care”: Greg Stohr and Laura Litvan of Bloomberg News have this report.

“Jury hears autopsy details: Doctor describes Hayley Petit’s injuries, death.” This article appears today in The New Haven Register.

And today’s edition of The Hartford Courant contains an article headlined “Komisarjevsky Trial: Hayley Petit’s Autopsy; Medical Examiner Noted Burned Ropes On Wrist And Ankles, Clothes Smelled Of Gas.”

“Troy Davis execution fuels eyewitness ID debate”: The Associated Press has this report.