“High court case on GPS surveillance could break new ground”: Joan Biskupic will have this article Wednesday in USA Today.

“Supreme Court vs. 9th Circuit: Roberts Defends Scalia’s Honor As Justices Ready To Reverse Case.” Mike Sacks of The Huffington Post has this report.

“October is banner month for judge confirmations”: Reuters has a report that begins, “The Senate last month confirmed 15 nominees to the federal bench, the busiest month so far this year.”

“Court upholds convictions of 5 in Fla. terror plot”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“You Call That a Trial? A Costly Superior Court Waiver Ruling.” The April 2011 installment of my “Upon Further Review” column published by The Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania’s daily newspaper for lawyers, reporting on the Pa. Superior Court‘s ruling in Newman Development Group of Pottstown LLC v. Genuardi’s Family Market Inc.

Today, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued an order granting allowance of appeal in the case.

“Kerry asks Congress to pay alleged Bulger victims”: The AP has a report that begins, “Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts asked Congress on Tuesday to circumvent a federal appeals court decision and approve $8.5 million in payments to the families of two men who allegedly died at the hands of former Boston mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger.”

My recent coverage of this matter can be accessed here, here, and here.

“SF court to hear appeal by Tucson rampage suspect”: The Associated Press has this report on an oral argument that’s scheduled to start just a few moments from now before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Once the oral argument audio becomes available online, I will link to it.

“Court unlikely to allow private prison to be sued”: The Associated Press has this report.

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument recap: Bivens hurdle too high.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Minneci v. Pollard, No. 10-1104.

“High court considers Ga. suit over false testimony”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Rehberg v. Paulk, No. 10-788.

“Idaho Couple Puts Wetlands Rules To The Test At Supreme Court”: Northwest News Network has this report (via NPR).

“Judges as punching bags: GOP presidential candidates’ attacks on federal justices show a lack of respect for the Constitution.” This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear High School Free Speech Case in Burlington”: The Hartford Courant contains this article today.

“Supreme Court To Weigh Case Of False Testimony”: This audio segment featuring Nina Totenberg appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“Cracking down on courtroom networking; Judges try to control juries in the age of Facebook”: Ameet Sachdev had this article Sunday in The Chicago Tribune.

“Senate confirms Stephen Higginson for seat on 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals”: Bruce Alpert has this article today in The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.

“Mississippi’s Ambiguous ‘Personhood’ Amendment”: Law professors I. Glenn Cohen and Jonathan F. Will have this op-ed online at The New York Times.

“U.S. Supreme Court reinstates conviction in baby’s death; Appeals panel ruled that the case against Shirley Ree Smith in her grandson’s death was so weak that it violated her right to a fair trial; Smith, freed in 2006, may return to prison by Christmas”: Carol J. Williams has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Supreme Court has final word on shaken baby case.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Supreme Court rebukes Ninth Circuit, again, in ‘shaken baby’ case; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by substituting its own judgment for the jury’s in the ‘shaken baby’ conviction of a California grandmother, the Supreme Court said; The reversal will send Shirley Ree Smith back to prison.”

And Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “Justices restore grandmother’s conviction in shaken baby death.”

“Justices Hear Arguments in Faulty-Lawyer Cases”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

Today in The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage reports that “Supreme Court hesitates to extend rights on plea deals; Justices show reluctance to reopen the cases of criminal defendants who missed out on good plea deals because of their lawyers’ mistakes.”

Nina Totenberg of NPR News reports that “Supreme Court Hears Plea Bargain Cases.”

And Mike Sacks of The Huffington Post has an article headlined “Supreme Court Looks At Plea Bargain Advice: How Much Bad Lawyering Is Allowed?”