“Argument preview: Faith, teaching, and the Constitution.” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Supreme Court about to start most interesting term in years”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

And at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post titled “Supreme Court Docket: Surveillance, Profanity and Thought Patents.”

“The Top 10 Supreme Court Previews”: Andrew Cohen has this post online at The Atlantic.

“Fed. Circ. judges call for clarity in pre-trial injunctions”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report on dissents from an order denying rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued yesterday.

“New Supreme Court Session Promises Fireworks”: WSJ.com has posted online this video interview with reporter Jess Bravin.

“Komisarjevsky Trial: Petit’s Sister Bristles At ‘Stunt’ Remark; Defense Thwarted In Mistrial Motion Over Walkout.” This article appears today in The Hartford Courant.

And The New Haven Register reports today that “Jennifer Hawke-Petit was killed before fire, doc testifies in Komisarjevsky trial.”

“U.S. Supreme Court to decide major legal issues”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

At Forbes.com, Daniel Fisher has a blog post titled “Patents, Profanity Top Supreme Court’s Fall Docket.”

Online at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen has an essay entitled “Supreme Court Preview: The Words of Summer.”

And also at The Atlantic, law professor Garrett Epps has an essay entitled “A Constitutional-Law Nerd’s Take on Upcoming Supreme Court Cases.”

“Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens pays tribute to Gerald Ford in speech”: This article appears today in The Grand Rapids Press.

And today in The Chicago Tribune, columnist Mary Schmich has an op-ed entitled “Retired Justice Stevens’ opinion: Chicago’s traffic keeps getting worse.”

“Appeals court strikes down ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ ruling; A three-member panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a Riverside judge’s ruling last year that the military’s policy on gays and lesbians was unconstitutional; The recent repeal of the policy renders the case moot, it says”: Carol J. Williams has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Federal judge warns on gay rights.”

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

“Supreme Court to weigh churches’ hiring rights”: Religion News Service has this report (via The Washington Post).

And today in The Deseret News, Hannah C. Smith has an op-ed entitled “High court set to hear religious liberty case.”

“Some Common Ground for Legal Adversaries on Health Care”: Adam Liptak has this news analysis today in The New York Times.

And Linda Feldmann of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Why a fast Supreme Court ruling on health-care law might benefit Obama; The Obama administration says it did not consider politics when it asked for a ruling from the US Supreme Court on its health-care law; To be sure, both parties will hope to spin a positive story from the result.”