“Judge Not: Why won’t progressives fight for federal judges?” Law professor Sonja West has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“In Maples Case, Associates Get the Blame”: Tom Huddleston Jr. has this post tonight at “The Am Law Daily.”

“Our ‘Broken System’ of Criminal Justice”: In the November 10, 2011 issue of The New York Review of Books, retired Justice John Paul Stevens has this review of William J. Stuntz’s new book, “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice.”

“Jurors Deciding Komisarjevsky’s Sentence May Hear About Earlier Crimes; Testimony in Cheshire killer’s penalty phase starts Tuesday”: The Hartford Courant has this news update.

And The New Haven Register has a news update headlined “Judge rules Komisarjevsky statements about 2002 burglaries admissible in penalty phase of Cheshire trial.”

“Appeals court in NY orders new trial for scientist”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A new trial has been ordered for an Ivy League-educated scientist convicted of violating the Iran trade embargo.”

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

“Court halts release of Prop. 8 video recordings”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has a blog post that begins, “A federal appeals court Monday put a temporary hold on a decision to make public the video recordings of the Proposition 8 trial and decided to rule on the matter expeditiously.”

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

“Office space: Judge Richard Posner — Longtime member of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit gives a tour of his office.” Kristin Samuelson has this article today in The Chicago Tribune.

“Secret reports: With security spotty, many had access to anthrax.” McClatchy Newspapers and ProPublica have this report today.

“‘Inherently Improper’ Searches and Seizures: The Sixth Circuit’s Puzzling New Decision in United States v. Sease.” Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“A big gift for Bybee: Latham & Watkins gives judge $3.2 million worth of legal aid.” David Ingram has this article in today’s issue of The National Law Journal.

And Ingram also has a related article headlined “Hundreds of trips: who’s paying? Majority of federal appellate judges traveled in 2010 — on sponsors’ dimes.” Lastly, a related chart is headlined “Frequent flyers: Which judges took the most trips?”

“U.S. Supreme Court to weigh bad legal advice”: The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania contains this article today.

“Hickenlooper to choose new Supreme Court justice”: This article appeared yesterday in The Denver Post.

“High court homes in on health care”: Politico.com has this report.

“Case to test California’s meat law; The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if California’s law banning ‘downer’ livestock is the right way to protect the meat supply”: This article appears today in The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California.