“Mount Soledad cross won’t go anywhere pending appeal”: Greg Moran of The San Diego Union-Tribune has this news update.

“UK supreme court sits on cusp of tradition and modernity; Two years after its founding, five supreme court justices explain how they reach judgments of national significance”: The Guardian (UK) has this report.

“9th Circuit: Corporations Can Be Sued For Human Rights Violations Abroad.” Mike Sacks of The Huffington Post has this report.

“Feds Embrace Lying in Response to Public-Record Requests”: At Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post that begins, “The Justice Department is proposing new Freedom of Information Act rules allowing the government to inform the public that records do not exist even if they do.”

“Obama healthcare law issues before U.S. high court”: James Vicini of Reuters has this report.

“In Rio Tinto, 9th Circuit judges debate Morrison’s ATS impact”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

My earlier coverage of today’s en banc Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

Woes of so-called “penis-pump judge” continue to mount: The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Convicted Okla. judge to forfeit retirement” that begins, “A former Oklahoma judge convicted of exposing himself by using a sexual device while presiding over trials is not eligible to receive the retirement benefits from his 23-year career on the bench, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday.”

And The Oklahoman has a news update headlined “Former Oklahoma judge Donald D. Thompson will lose most of pension, state Supreme Court rules.”

“Super-Soft Money: How Justice Kennedy paved the way for ‘SuperPACS’ and the return of soft money.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Feds ask appeals court to reject Loughner’s appeal”: The Associated Press has this report on the Brief for Appellee that federal prosecutors filed yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

“Sky-High Spy: With GPS Probing, the Zone of Privacy Is Getting Even Smaller.” Mark Walsh will have this article in the November 2011 issue of the ABA Journal magazine.

“US court revives human rights case vs Rio Tinto”: Reuters has a report that begins, “A U.S. federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit accusing Rio Tinto Plc of human rights violations related to Papua New Guinea, where it once ran one of the world’s largest copper and gold mines.”

You can access today’s en banc ruling of an eleven-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link. Seven of the judges on the en banc panel issued opinions.

Update: In other coverage, Bloomberg News reports that “Rio Tinto Genocide Claims Reinstated by U.S. Appeals Court.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Court OKs genocide lawsuit against mining company.”

Access online the Memorial Service for the Hon. Terence T. Evans recorded Sept. 23, 2011: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has posted this video online at its web site.

“Prop. 8 recordings to stay sealed for now”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

And Reuters reports that “Ninth circuit to take up gay marriage trial tapes.”

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Ninth Circuit order appears at this link.

“L.A.-based law firm gives more than $3.2 million in services to help appeals judge’s defense; Jay Bybee, who is on the 9th Circuit bench, has fought allegations of ethics violations for providing legal justification for waterboarding; Much of the money for his defense comes from Latham & Watkins”: Carol J. Williams has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.