“Supreme Court, Help! My Mini-Bar Is Spying Without Warrants.” David Kravets has this post at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog.

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Orin Kerr has a post titled “The Two Questions of Jones, and the Potential Difficulty of Identifying the Proper Voting Rule.”

“Latif: A Very Big Deal.” This evening at the “Lawfare” blog, Benjamin Wittes has this post about a previously secret opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit made public today in redacted form.

“Supreme Court seems ready to block California law that requires euthanization of ‘downer’ livestock”: Robert Barnes will have this article Thursday in The Washington Post.

The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California has a news update headlined “Slaughter law with Inland roots challenged.”

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers reports that “Supreme Court skeptical of California’s slaughterhouse rule.”

Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “Livestock treatment debated at Supreme Court.”

And Greg Stohr and Stephanie Armour of Bloomberg News report that “California Slaughterhouse Law May Be Voided by U.S. Supreme Court.”

“May It Please the Court: Why this week’s decision upholding Obamacare may carry extra weight at the Supreme Court.” Simon Lazarus has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has a blog post titled “Judge Calls Pre-2014 Ruling on Health Care Mandate Premature.”

“Daimler Loses Bid for Review of Argentine Kidnapping, Torture Case Ruling”: Bloomberg News has a report that begins, “Daimler AG lost its bid for further review of a U.S. court ruling that it must face claims that its Argentine Mercedes-Benz unit collaborated with state security forces to kill and torture workers in the so-called Dirty War.”

A total of eight Ninth Circuit judges joined in an opinion dissenting from that court’s denial of rehearing en banc today.

My earlier coverage of the three-judge panel’s ruling appears at this link.

“Court likely to overturn Calif. law on livestock”: The Associated Press has this report.

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in National Meat Assn. v. Harris, No. 10-224.

“USS Cole case arraignment a new Guantanamo chapter”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A Saudi considered among the most senior figures in al-Qaida emerged Wednesday from nine years of secret confinement to face charges of orchestrating the deadly attack on the USS Cole in the start of a new round of Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals under a president who vowed to halt them.”

“Alleged al Qaida bomber engaged at war court debut”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has a news update that begins, “An alleged al Qaida chieftain facing a death-penalty trial was brought before an Army judge at Camp Justice on Wednesday, his first ever court date nine years after CIA agents captured him in the Arabian Gulf region and spirited him off to waterboarding and other secret interrogation techniques.” Earlier, Rosenberg had related articles headlined “Guantanamo: the most expensive prison on earth; The cost to house a captive at Guantanamo Bay is $800,000 per year, far in excess of other federal or state lockups” and “Judge opens remote war court viewing site to ‘general public.’”

Charlie Savage of The New York Times has a news update headlined “Accused Al-Qaeda Leader is Arraigned in U.S.S. Cole Bombing.”

The Los Angeles Times reports today that “Cole bombing suspect’s Guantanamo trial to begin; The military tribunal proceeding is a no-win situation for Abd al Rahim al Nashiri; It also highlights a continuing legal and ethical dilemma for the Obama administration.”

Reuters reports that “Guantanamo hearing to be beamed to U.S. viewing sites.”

And today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment entitled “Guantanamo Trial Opens With A Series Of Firsts.”

“High court weighs hearing arguments on health-care law”: Joan Biskupic has this article today in USA Today.

Today in The New York Times, John Schwartz reports that “Health Law Survives Test in Court of Appeals.”

The Washington Post reports that “Appeals court upholds health-care law.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Health care in court: Obama leading 3-1, but it ain’t over ’til it’s over; A federal appeals court panel in Washinton, D.C., upholds the constitutionality of Obama’s health-care reforms, the third to do so; The Supreme Court is scheduled to consider on Thursday whether to take up one or more challenges to the law.”

At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Big boost for health care.”

And online at The Atlantic, law professor Garrett Epps has an essay entitled “A Conservative Icon Upholds the Affordable Health Care Act.”

“Personhood rejected; Supporter vows to continue fight”: This article appears today in The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi.

The New York Times reports today that “Mississippi Voters Reject Anti-Abortion Measure.”

The Los Angeles Times reports that “Mississippi voters reject controversial ‘personhood’ initiative.”

The Associated Press reports that “‘Personhood’ effort still alive after Miss. defeat.”

Reuters reports that “Mississippi voters reject anti-abortion measure.”

Bloomberg News reports that “Mississippi Voters Reject ‘Personhood’ Ballot Cutting Off Abortion Access.”

And today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment entitled “Mississippi Voters Reject ‘Personhood’ Measure.”

“U.S. Supreme Court justices question handling of evidence by Orleans Parish prosecutors”: Bruce Alpert has this article today in The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument recap: Disaster at the lectern.”

“Democrats, Republicans win judicial races”: This article appears today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.