“Scalia v. Posner: Round 4.” Terry Baynes of Reuters has this report.

“Air Force slow to handle appeals for convicted airmen, officers”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“Parties Still Squabbling Over Stalled Judicial Nominees”: Todd Ruger has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

And at The Hill, law professor Carl Tobias has a blog post titled “Bipartisanship and filling the federal bench.”

“Appeals court rules against village in global-warming suit”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court has ruled against the Northwest Alaska village of Kivalina, which sued energy companies over claims that greenhouse emissions contributed to global warming that is threatening the community’s existence.”

Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire reports that “Appeals court ends Alaskan village’s federal common law fight.”

And at her “Trial Insider” blog, ” Pamela A. MacLean has a post titled “Alaska Global Warming Suit Fails on Appeal.”

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

“Fox Television Stripper Fine Lawsuit Dropped by U.S.” Bloomberg News has this report.

“Clarence Thomas: Ivy-Leaguers no better than UF law students.” The Gainesville Sun has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Justice Thomas criticizes law school rankings.”

“SCOTUS and securities class actions: a love story.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“A New Gold Rush: Montana’s Judicial Elections Are About to Get More Political; The Citizens United case claims another victim.” Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Experts Discuss New Court Term at Supreme Court Institute Press Briefing”: The Georgetown University Law Center has issued this news release, which provides on-demand access to video of the briefing.

“Court of Appeals to Remember Chief Judge Emeritus James R. Browning”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today.

“Death row nutrition: Curious conclusions of last meals.” The December 2012 issue of the journal Appetite will contain this article, which is now available online for free download via SSRN.

“Pa. voter ID law gets new hearings for next week”: This article appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“In Richmond, Kagan reflects on first year on Supreme Court”: Frank Green has this article today in The Richmond Times-Dispatch.

“Gaming Gay Marriage: Which case should the Supreme Court take?” Emily Bazelon has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Circuit Court Needs to Let the S.E.C. Do Its Job”: In today’s edition of The New York Times, financial columnist Floyd Norris has an essay that begins, “The second-most important court in the United States has three vacancies, one of which was created in 2005.”