“Supreme Court’s Alito tells Bristol law school audience he personally reviews cases seeking high court review”: Katie Mulvaney of The Providence (R.I.) Journal has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Alito says Supreme Court misunderstood by media.”

“Veteran Panel Sizes Up the Supreme Court”: Zoe Tillman has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Programming note: A trip to the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania area in connection with a pending appeal will cause me to be away from the office until this afternoon. Additional posts will appear here later today.

“Errol Morris v. Janet Malcolm: The documentary filmmaker takes on the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case.” Emily Bazelon has this interview online at Slate.

“The New Going Rate for Supreme Court Clerk Bonuses”: David Lat has this blog post today at “Above the Law.”

“Pa. Supreme Court hears arguments on voter ID law”: The Philadelphia Inquirer has this news update.

“Lawyers argue voter ID case before Pennsylvania Supreme Court”: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has this news update.

The Associated Press reports that “Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Questioned By State Supreme Court.”

And CBS News has a report headlined “Pa. Supreme Court weighs voter ID arguments.”

“Thomas: Americans still arguing over gov’t limits.” The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says the same arguments the Founding Fathers fought over during the creation of the United States are still raging today.”

“Study of US campaign ads finds growing role of outside groups”: Reuters has this report.

“Pa. Supreme Court takes up voter ID today, NAACP plans rally”: The Philadelphia Inquirer has this news update. Earlier this week, the newspaper published an article headlined “Pennsylvania Supreme Court faces key question on voter ID appeal.” And today’s newspaper contains an article headlined “Pa. Supreme Court to review districting plan.”

The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania reports today that “Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear challenges to state’s voter ID law.”

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported earlier this week that “Voter ID case goes to Pa. Supreme Court on Thursday; Challengers attempt to delay Nov. start.”

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Challengers of voting-law changes win some battles, but outcomes still unsettled.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Voter ID law backed by Republicans faces legal test in Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices on Thursday will examine the state’s voter ID law, which was touted by a top state Republican as allowing Mitt Romney ‘to win the state.’”

Bloomberg News reports that “Pennsylvania Top Court Set to Hear Voter-ID Law Case.”

Reuters reports that “National debate over voter ID moves to Pennsylvania high court.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Pennsylvania Supreme Court to air legislative redistricting challenges.”

“Under new Supreme Court ruling, Pa. high court ponders fates of teen lifers”: Joseph A. Slobodzian has this article today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania reports today that “Pa. justices wrestle with sentencing of juvenile killers; With U.S. Supreme Court’s ban on automatic life-without-parole sentences, Pa. court looks for guidance on how to handle killers such as Easton’s Batts.”

The Philadelphia Daily News reports that “Pa.’s high court grapples with federal decision on sentencing juveniles.”

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that “Mandatory life sentences challenged by juvenile offenders.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Pa. Supreme Court weighing new sentences for juvenile killers.”

“Congress, courts and the skewed punishment of illegal downloaders”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

Programming note: Additional posts will appear here this evening.

“Trying juveniles as adults will be become tougher, N.J. Supreme Court rules”: The Newark Star-Ledger has a news update that begins, “Prosecutors in New Jersey must abide by a stricter standard when asking that juveniles be tried as adults, making it easier for juvenile defendants to defeat such requests, the state Supreme Court ruled today.”

You can access today’s 3-to-2 ruling of the Supreme Court of New Jersey at this link.

“11th Circuit creeping into the tech era”: David Oscar Markus has this post at his “Southern District of Florida Blog.”

“Is Antonin Scalia Still Relevant?” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Supreme Court Mulls Punitive Damages in HRT Case”: Amaris Elliott-Engel has this front page article today in The Legal Intelligencer — Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers — reporting on the oral argument that I participated in yesterday at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The Brief for Plaintiffs/Appellees that I filed in support of my clients in that case can be accessed here.

And last Friday, in an entirely separate appeal, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania issued this ruling in favor of my client in a dispute between two lawyers over the division of an attorneys’ fee. The Brief for Plaintiff/Appellee that I filed in that appeal can be accessed here.

“Montana Supreme Court: No constitutional right to medical marijuana.” Today’s edition of The Missoulian contains this article reporting on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Montana issued yesterday.

“Presidential election will shape Supreme Court”: Gregg Nunziata has this op-ed today in USA Today.

“Why the Supreme Court May Soon Strike Down a Key Section of the Voting Rights Act”: Nicholas Stephanopoulos has this blog post online at The New Republic.

“Microsoft and Google Take $4 Billion Patent Dispute to 9th Circuit”: Scott Graham of The Recorder has this report.

You can access the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (featuring Kathleen M. Sullivan versus Carter G. Phillips) via this link.

“Pennsylvania Supreme Court To Hear Arguments On Juvenile Life Sentences”: CBS Philly has this report.

“Personhood amendment won’t make Colorado ballot in 2012”: This article appears today in The Denver Post.

“Appeals Court clears 2 Phoenix officers, Taser in man’s death”: Today’s edition of The Arizona Republic contains an article that begins, “The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals cleared two Phoenix police officers of wrongful death in the repeated Tasering of a man choking his 3-year-old granddaughter during an exorcism.”

And Cronkite News reports that “Court rules officers’ repeated use of Taser on man who later died was reasonable.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“U.S. asks Supreme Court to consider two more gay marriage cases”: Reuters has this report.

“Appeals court says woman owes record companies $222,000; Appeals court finds no constitutional bar against large judgment against woman who shared copyrighted songs on the Internet”: The Minneapolis Star Tribune has this news update.

Reuters reports that “Appeals court raises damages award in music piracy case.”

Bloomberg News reports that “Minnesota Song Downloader Must Pay $222,000, Court Says.”

And at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post titled “After Three Trials, Court Restores Original $222,000 Verdict in Key File-Sharing Case.”

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

“Little sympathy for Merlo in high court hearing”: Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has a news update that begins, “Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court justices showed little sympathy Tuesday for Maryesther Merlo, the Allentown judge booted from the bench for misconduct last year.”

Update: In other coverage, The Express-Times of Easton, Pennsylvania reports that “Former Allentown District Judge Maryesther Merlo appeals to state Supreme Court for job back.”

“Court says woman can’t be charged for inducing abortion”: Dan Levine of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Detainee Who Died at Guantanamo Had Release Blocked by Court”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this news update.

And Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has a news update headlined “Dead Guantanamo detainee won, then lost federal court-ordered release; The ninth detainee to die in the 11 years of the Guantanamo detention center was a man in his 30s from Yemen; the man’s lawyer warned of his client’s despair for years.”

“On Garner on Posner on Scalia & Garner”: Neal Goldfarb has this post at his “LAWnLinguistics” blog.

In today’s mail: Today’s mail contained an advance copy of the book “Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It,” by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr.

And from The Green Bag, I received my certificate for a Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg bobblehead doll.

“Justice Elena Kagan, Comedian: The junior Justice is out and about, pitching the view that the Supreme Court these days is one big hug fest.” Andrew Cohen has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

“In Cost-Cutting Move, Judicial Conference Closes Six Court Facilities”: Todd Ruger has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

The Associated Press has a report headlined “Judge: US civil trials at risk without budget deal.”

And the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts today issued a news release headlined “Judiciary Continues Cost Savings, Closes Court Facilities.”

Programming note: Due to the oral argument that I will be presenting Tuesday morning in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (described two posts earlier, below), additional posts will appear here on Tuesday afternoon.

Update: Tuesday morning’s oral argument seemed to go quite well. Attorneys Robert C. Heim and Sheila L. Birnbaum divided the oral argument for defendant/appellant Wyeth, while I presented the entire argument for plaintiff/appellee Mary Daniel.

The Legal Intelligencer will likely have coverage of the oral argument in a day or so. And when Pennsylvania Cable Network posts the video of the oral argument online, I will link to it.

“Appeals court upholds Illinois campaign disclosure law”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report on a ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today.