“Court upholds Afghan Taliban’s narco-terrorism conviction in U.S.” Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

“Supreme Court Mulls Affirmative Action, Class Actions In Fall Docket”: Daniel Fisher has this blog post at Forbes.com.

“Scalia’s Flawed Book on Reading Law”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost On Justice.”

“[An Idaho state prisoner named] Wood allegedly engaged in a romantic, but not sexual, relationship with a female prison guard, Sandra de Martin. Wood alleges that both during and after the relationship, Martin perpetrated sexual acts on him without his consent.” So begins an opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“When Government Distorts the Truth: Is the state violating the First Amendment rights of tobacco companies?” Law professor Richard A. Epstein has this essay today at the “Defining Ideas” site of the Hoover Institution.

“Empty Benches”: Law professor Pamela S. Karlan — who reportedly was (and perhaps still is) herself under consideration for an Obama judgeship nomination — has this article in the September/October 2012 issue of Boston Review.