“Florida Supreme Court justice calls politics a threat to legal system”: This article will appear Saturday in The Tampa Bay Times.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal has an update headlined “Bench challenge: High court justice tours state trying to keep job.”

And The Palm Beach Post has a news update headlined “Florida Supreme Court retention race unusually stressful, costly this election.”

“Sanders, McCloud face off for Supreme Court”: The Associated Press has this report from Seattle.

“Bookmarks: Jeffrey Toobin talks Supreme Court politics at Portland Arts & Lectures.” This article appears today in The Oregonian.

“Alaska high court says private emails OK for state business”: Reuters has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Alaska court says public business on private email still public.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Alaska at this link.

“Brewer appoints Republican to state Supreme Court”: The Arizona Republic has a news update that begins, “Gov. Jan Brewer has appointed Court of Appeals Judge Ann Scott Timmer to the Arizona Supreme Court. Timmer, 52 and a Republican, will fill the seat left vacant when Justice Andrew Hurwitz was appointed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this year.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Brewer court pick wrote 2003 ruling on marriage.”

“Supreme Court candidates struggle with each other, lack of voter interest”: This article appears today in The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina.

“Federal Circuit picks two smartphone winners: Samsung and Posner.” Dan Levine has this report today at Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight.

“Appeals court to consider DEA classification of marijuana”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.