“Miss. abortion clinic may be on way to closing”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Second Annual Supreme Court Term in Review Program” at University of California, Irvine School of Law is now underway: You can view the program live, online by clicking here (via “Election Law Blog“).

Majority on divided three-judge Ninth Circuit panel rejects Fourth Amendment challenge to Los Angeles ordinance that requires operators of hotels to maintain certain guest registry information and to make that information available to police officers on request: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Update: Pamela A. MacLean has this post about the ruling at her “Trial Insider” blog.

“Chief Guantanamo judge refuses request to disqualify himself from USS Cole trial”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this news update.

“The Supreme Court: Not Such an Impregnable Fortress Anymore?” Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has this report.

“Chief Justice Roberts’ key message lost on many critics”: At the web site of The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin has an essay that begins, “Of the millions of words written and spoken about the Supreme Court’s decision in the Affordable Care Act case (commonly called the health care case), too many have focused on labels and politics, too few on the principles of judging.”

“Obamacare and the Court: Handing Health Policy Back to the People.” Law professor Barry Friedman has this essay online at Foreign Affairs.

“Trial Judge to Appeals Court: Review Me.” This editorial appears today in The New York Times.

“Gov. Christie set to nominate former federal, state prosecutor to N.J. Supreme Court”: Today’s edition of The Newark Star-Ledger contains an article that begins, “Gov. Chris Christie — rebuffed by Democrats on two recent state Supreme Court choices — plans to nominate Superior Court Judge Lee Solomon, a former federal and state prosecutor, to the high court, The Star-Ledger has learned.”

“9th U.S. court cancels 2013 conference”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

The Associated Press reports that “Calif. judicial event postponed amid budget woes.”

At his “In the Loop” blog, Al Kamen of The Washington Post has an entry titled “Maui judicial conference still a go.”

Roll Call reports that “After Criticism, 9th Circuit Cancels 2013 Conference.”

And Politico.com has a blog post titled “Ninth Circuit scraps 2013 conference in Monterey, Calif.”

“A Failure of Cynicism: Citizens United and the Limits of Optimism; That the founding fathers felt compelled to write down that we are all created equal shows how little they expected us to arrive at that conclusion on our own.” Shalom Auslander has this essay online today at The New York Observer.

“3rd Circuit shocker: Pay-for-delay drug settlements are illegal.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

My earlier coverage of today’s Third Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“As Partisan Rancor Persists, Senate Votes to Confirm New Jersey Judicial Nominee”: Todd Ruger has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Congratulations to “How Appealing” reader Kevin McNulty on this evening’s Senate confirmation vote.

“Bagram detainees want to use U.S. Constitution to argue for release”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“9th Circuit thwarts Kellogg cy pres settlement”: Terry Baynes has this report at Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight.

My earlier coverage of last Friday’s Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Writing With Antonin Scalia, Grammar Nerd”: Alex Carp has this blog post online today at The New Yorker.

“Voting Alignment on the Iowa Supreme Court”: Ryan Koopmans has this post today at the “On Brief” blog.

And a related post of mine from earlier this afternoon can be accessed here.

“TSA Fails to Comply With Year-Old ‘Nude’ Body-Scanner Court Order”: David Kravets has this post at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog.

“Even Scalia’s Dissenting Opinions Get Major Scrutiny”: Nina Totenberg has this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“William Kayatta and the Needless Destruction of the Thurmond Rule: Why do Republican leaders still play along with an informal Senate rule that prevents up-or-down votes on even those judges who have strong Republican support?” Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Republicans Turn Against John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court; Democrats now positive about both”: Gallup issued this news release today.

“Schering-Plough’s K-Dur Pay-For-Delay Ruling Reversed”: Bloomberg News has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today.

“Sotomayor buys U Street condo”: Washington Business Journal has this news update.

“Edie Windsor vs. DOMA: 83-Year-Old Lesbian Petitions U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Case.” Lila Shapiro of The Huffington Post has this report.

Update: And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Another DOMA challenge.”

“Why Guantanamo Bay Is Still Open”: Today’s broadcast of “The Takeaway” from WNYC Radio contained this audio segment featuring Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald.

“Iowa Supreme Court character after upheaval coming into focus”: This article appears today in The Quad-City Times.

“First Amendment overshadowed in 2011-12 term”: Tony Mauro has this news analysis online at The First Amendment Center.

“Immigration debate keeps law school graduate a few steps from his dreams”: Howard Mintz has this article today in The San Jose Mercury News.

“In attempting to block Justice Bernette Johnson, Louisiana Supreme Court alters history”: Jarvis DeBerry has this essay online at The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Citizens United — My how the money rolls in.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

“Circuit Cancels 2013 Judges’ Conference”: At her “Trial Insider” blog, Pamela A. MacLean has a post that begins, “It appears two U.S. Senators’ criticism of spending for a Maui judicial conference in August by the the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paid off.”

My most recent earlier coverage appears at this link.

“Richard Posner Bashes Supreme Court’s Citizens United Ruling; Richard Posner is the most influential conservative judge outside the Supreme Court; And he thinks its campaign-finance ruling encourages bribery”: James Warren has this essay online at The Daily Beast.

“Kellogg class-action settlement rejected by federal appeals court; The pact, involving allegations that Kellogg made false health claims about Frosted Mini-Wheats, was rejected because a three-judge panel said lawyers’ fees were too high”: In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, Maura Dolan has this article reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Roberts Rules: What the Health Care Decision Means for the Country.” David Von Drehle has this cover story in the July 16, 2012 issue of Time magazine.

The magazine also contains an item headlined “The Health Care Decision: Deliverance or Disaster? Four former solicitors general weigh in on Chief Justice John Roberts’ ruling.”

“GOP senators again ask 9th Circuit to abandon $1M Hawaii conference”: The Hill has a blog post that begins, “Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Judiciary ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Friday warned the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals again that it should cancel its planned August conference in Hawaii, which the senators estimate will cost more than $1 million.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Cancel meeting in ‘paradise,’ senators say.”

You can view yesterday’s letter addressed to Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski at this link.

Update: In a related development, yesterday the Ninth Circuit issued a news release headlined “Ninth Circuit to Reschedule 2013 Circuit Conference.”