In Bashman news from Australia: The Advertiser of Adelaide, Australia has a news update headlined “Gang of home invaders bash man unconscious at Thebarton.”

“Ideologues In Robes: The major theories about interpreting the Constitution serve competing schools of activism and give cover to partisan results.” In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Adam J. White has this review of Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III‘s new book, “Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance.”

“Battleground America: The insanity of our gun laws.” Jill Lepore has this article in the April 23, 2012 issue of The New Yorker.

“U.S. Senate confirms Thacker to federal appeals court”: The West Virginia Record has this news update.

“U.S. Appeals Court Sides With FSC Over 2257 Challenges”: XBIZ Newswire has this report.

And AVN News reports that “Third Circuit Reverses 2257 Decision on Appeal.”

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

“2011 Ninth Circuit Annual Report is Now Available Online!” You can access it at this link.

In news coverage of today’s U.S. Supreme Court Order List: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “High court steps into copyright case.” The AP also reports that “Court won’t hear appeal over ministerial exception“; “Court won’t hear argument over NFL arbitration“; and “Court rejects Skilling appeal again.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Discounted ‘Gray Market’ Goods Draw Top U.S. Court Review” and “Enron’s Skilling Rejected by Top U.S. Court on Conviction.”

James Vicini of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court to hear reach of copyright law abroad” and “Supreme Court rejects Skilling’s Enron case appeal.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Orders: One new grant, on copyright.”

“High court weighs overtime pay for drug sales reps”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

And James Vicini of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court hears Glaxo overtime pay case.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., No. 11-204.

“Death Row Inmate’s Best Lawyer Was Himself”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court has posted today’s Order List at this link. The Court today granted review in one case.