“Conn. home invasion killers close by on death row”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Top Courts Value the Attorney-Client Privilege Differently”: Traditionally, a new U.S. Supreme Court Justice’s first opinion for the Court is supposed to be unanimous and noncontroversial.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s first majority opinion, which issued in December 2009, was nearly unanimous, but it has proved to be at least somewhat controversial. Indeed, only last month the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a decision reaching the opposite result.

This month’s installment of my monthly “Upon Further Review” column appears in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania’s daily newspaper for lawyers, and addresses the subject of this disagreement. You can access my column by clicking here.

“Supreme Court Can’t Dodge Health Care Law’s Fate Under Bill From GOP Lawmaker”: Mike Sacks and John Celock of The Huffington Post have this report.

“Courtside: An early (and accidental) peek at today’s orders and opinions.” Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal had this article (PDF) online yesterday. Both this blog and Mike Sacks of The Huffington Post are mentioned in the article.

“The Roberts Court v. America: How the Roberts Supreme Court is using the First Amendment to craft a radical, free-market jurisprudence.” Law professor Jedediah Purdy has this essay (available online in both PDF and HTML formats) in the Winter 2012 issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.

Access online the video of this morning’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Ninth Circuit nominee Paul J. Watford: You can access the video by clicking here.

“Michigan’s Balkanizing Bottle Redemption Law Treads on Commerce Clause”: Cory Andrews has this post today at “The Legal Pulse” blog of the Washington Legal Foundation.

“Health care case adds pressure for cameras in Supreme Court”: Joan Biskupic has this article today in USA Today.

“Appeals panel hears new science about arsons that could free man”: Emilie Lounsberry has this article today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“The ‘Fill in the Blanks’ Court Game of Indefinite Detention”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Tobacco Companies Preparing for Supreme Court Review of Graphic Labels”: Zoe Tillman has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

In jurisprudence essays available online at Slate: David Gans and Doug Kendall have a jurisprudence essay entitled “The Meaning of Equal: Conservative originalists are rethinking their narrow reading of the 14th Amendment.”

And Ian Millhiser has a jurisprudence essay entitled “Hecklers Vetoes: Debunking Eric Segall’s liberal arguments for a Kagan recusal in the health care case.”

“Justices ask Obama admin to weigh in on pollution permitting for logging roads”: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has this report.

“Can Ecuadorean plaintiffs keep funding case against Chevron?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“7th Circuit strikes down part of Wisconsin election law”: Bruce Vielmetti of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this blog post reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today.

“Supreme Court to Rule on Immigration Law in Arizona”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news update.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Supreme Court to hear challenge of Arizona’s restrictive immigration law.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Supreme Court to review Arizona immigration law.”

Joan Biskupic of USA Today has a news update headlined “High court will look at state immigration laws.”

The Arizona Republic has a news update headlined “Supreme Court to look at Arizona immigration law.”

Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star has a news update headlined “High court agrees to rule on SB1070.”

Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has a news update headlined “Supreme Court will hear Arizona immigration case; Kagan recuses herself.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Supreme Court takes Arizona immigration law case in key test of federal power; The Supreme Court has agreed to consider the tough Arizona immigration law, setting the stage for a potentially landmark ruling on whether states have rights to set immigration policy.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “AZ Immigration Law Gets Supreme Court Review.”

James Vicini of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court to decide Arizona immigration law.”

Mike Sacks of The Huffington Post reports that “Arizona Immigration Law Faces Supreme Court Ruling.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Another landmark ruling in the offing.”

“DOMA and Its Discontents”: Will Baude has this guest post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy” relating to his forthcoming law review article titled “Beyond DOMA: Choice of State Law in Federal Statutes.”

“When Truth Survives Free Speech”: In today’s edition of The New York Times, David Carr has an essay that begins, “Last week, a story came across my desk that seemed to suggest that a blogger had been unfairly nailed with a $2.5 million defamation award after a judge refused to give her standing as a journalist.”

The NYTimes is also hosting a “Room for Debate” discussion titled “Are All Bloggers Journalists?”

Access online today’s Order List and opinion in an argued case of the U.S. Supreme Court: The nation’s highest Court has posted online today’s opinions and Order List some 30 minutes before they will be announced in open court.

You can access today’s Order List at this link. The Court granted review in three cases, including Arizona v. United States (with Justice Elena Kagan’s recusal noted in that case). The Court also called for the views of the Solicitor General in two cases.

Justice Kagan delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Judulang v. Holder, No. 10-694. You can access the oral argument transcript at this link.

The Court today also issued a unanimous per curiam summary reversal in Hardy v. Cross, No. 11-74.

Update: No doubt recognizing its early posting error, the Court has temporarily removed its Order List and these opinions from the Court’s web site. If you haven’t obtained access to them yet, you will simply need to wait until 10 a.m. There could also be additional opinions announced in argued cases, as the early posting of Justice Kagan’s opinion in the Judulang case did not indicate whether any other opinions in argued cases will issue today. The Court announces signed majority opinions in reverse seniority order, meaning that on a day when Justice Kagan has one or more signed majority opinions to announce, her opinion(s) will be announced first.

Second update: The Court is only issuing one opinion in an argued case today. Stay tuned for news coverage of how the Court managed accidentally to make public its Order List and opinions 30 minutes early. And perhaps the SEC can look into whether any unusual trading took place during that 30 minutes based on the information contained in the Order List.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press has reports headlined “High court to look at state immigration laws“; “Court overturns deportation decision“; and “Court: Can lawsuit against casino go forward?”

On today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition“: Nina Totenberg had an audio segment entitled “At The High Court, A Tribute To A ‘Chef Supreme’” (transcript with link to audio).

And the program also contained an audio segment entitled “Florida’s Infamous Voting Machines Sold By Collector” (link to audio).

“Internal DOJ Email: Kagan Was Brought Into Loop on Mark Levin’s Obamacare Complaint.” Terence P. Jeffrey has this report at CNSNews.com.

“Senate blocking Xenia native court nominee with filibuster; Filibuster against Xenia native puts agreement at risk”: This article appears today in The Dayton Daily News.

And today’s edition of The New York Daily News contains an editorial entitled “Caitlin Halligan & Richard Cordray blocked by partisan GOP; Obama nominees deserve up or down Senate votes.”

“The Next Roe v. Wade?: Jennie McCormack’s Abortion Battle; Jennie McCormack was arrested for terminating her pregnancy with an abortion pill; The case that could transform the reproduction wars.” The current issue of Newsweek contains this article.

“Texas Elections Are in Limbo Over Redistricting Issue”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

And The Texas Tribune reports that “Redistricting Orders Throw Texas Politics Into Disarray.”

“Justice Sotomayor Speaks In Randolph”: Vermont Public Radio has this report.

“Justice Breyer: A view from the bench.” CBS News.com has this report. Justice Stephen G. Breyer was a guest on this morning’s broadcast of the CBS News program “The Early Show.”

“Philippine Supreme Court chief justice impeached”: The AP has this report.

“High court could look at state immigration laws”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Texas voting in 2012: A three-court puzzle.” Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Will Justice Kennedy Rescue Texas Republican Redistricting?” Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Law creates barriers to getting care for mentally ill; Forty years ago, a new legal standard for mental health commitment emerged from a Milwaukee lawsuit to become the law of the land; It has proved to be tragically inadequate”: This lengthy article, part one in a two-part series, appears today in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“Supreme Court may weigh in on Arizona immigration law; It would be the second hot political issue, after Obama’s healthcare law, the justices could rule on during a presidential election year”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

And yesterday in The East Valley Tribune of Tempe, Arizona, Howard Fischer had an article headlined “Supreme Court to decide Monday on SB 1070 injunction.”

“Americans Favor Televising Supreme Court Healthcare Case; Large majorities of Republicans and Democrats favor cameras in the high court for this case”: Gallup issued this news release last Friday.

“Beyond Guantanamo, a Web of Prisons for Terrorism Inmates”: Scott Shane has this front page article today in The New York Times.

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Free speech and ‘touching’ Dick Cheney.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.