“Appeals court overturns key Cape Wind clearance”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Federal Aviation Administration’s ruling that the Cape Wind project’s turbines present ‘no hazard’ to aviation, overturning a vital clearance for the nation’s first offshore wind farm.”

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

“Appeals Court Rules For Circus In Elephant Dispute”: At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has this post about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

“Justice Served: U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s thirty-five-year tenure was marked by intellectual rigor, lack of pretension, and the firm belief that absolutism had no place on the bench.” Michael O’Donnell has this book review in the current issue of Washington Monthly.

“Ricci’s Not Over”: The New Haven Independent today has posted online an article that begins, “Only two months after the city seemed to have dealt with the last vestiges of the Ricci case by settling for $5 million with a group of mostly white firefighters, it now faces a new lawsuit–this time from a group of black firefighters. It’s exactly the situation the city was trying to avoid when it threw out the results of a 2003 fire department promotions exam after no African-American test-takers scored highly enough to be promoted. The city argued that it would be sued for using a biased test if it certified the results.”

“Court overturns woman’s horn-honking conviction”: Today’s edition of The Seattle Times contains an article that begins, “The case of a Snohomish County woman who was jailed for honking her horn in a dispute with a neighbor has been overturned by the state Supreme Court, which ruled that the county’s ordinance on horn-honking was overbroad.”

The Daily Herald of Everett, Washington reports today that “State Supreme Court tosses county horn-honking limits as overly broad.”

SeattlePI.com reports that “Neighborhood horn-honker wins one before state Supreme Court.”

Yesterday’s 6-3 ruling of the Washington State Supreme Court consists of a majority opinion and two dissenting opinions (here and here).

“JCPS asks Kentucky high court to review student assignment ruling”: The Louisville Courier-Journal today contains an article that begins, “Nearly a month after a Kentucky Appeals Court struck down Jefferson County Public Schools student assignment plan, the district on Thursday asked the state Supreme Court to take up the case.”

“Retired justice Stevens on ethics, Thomas and Colbert”: Joan Biskupic has this article today in USA Today.

And next Monday’s edition of Time magazine will contain an item headlined “10 Questions for John Paul Stevens.”

“Female Wal-Mart Employees File New Bias Case”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports today that “New lawsuit alleges sex discrimination at Walmart.”

Ginny LaRoe of The Recorder reports that “‘Dukes’ Back From the Dead.”

And Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has a blog post titled “‘We’re Back’: Walmart Plaintiffs File Amended Sex Discrimination Complaint.”