“On the Death of Judge Robert Bork”: Paul J. Larkin, Jr., a former law clerk to Judge Bork, has this post at “The Foundry” blog of The Heritage Foundation.

“Religious challenge to health care law can continue”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“The New Yorker finds the U.S. Constitution ungrammatical”: Mark Liberman had this post yesterday at “Language Log” commenting on an aspect of Jeffrey Toobin’s blog post titled “So You Think You Know the Second Amendment?”

“The mother behind kids’ long-shot legal crusade”: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has this report.

“Former Solicitor General Returns to Law School to Teach Contracts”: Columbia University issued this news release today.

“Gun control measures face new legal landscape”: In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article that begins, “If the rhetoric about a legislative response to the Newtown, Conn., school shootings actually turns into legislation, it will do so in a legal landscape changed by the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision that Americans have a constitutional right to gun ownership.”

And Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Gun-Control Backers See No High Court Hurdle for Laws.”

“Conference committee drops ban on indefinite detention of Americans”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post.

“The mark at issue here has two parts: a literal element, consisting of the words COCK SUCKER, and a design element, consisting of a drawing of a crowing rooster.” So explains an opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued today.

“The TTABlog” previously reported on the ruling of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in this case in a post that you can access here.

“Robert H. Bork, Conservative Jurist, Dies at 85”: The New York Times has this news update.

The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Judge Robert H. Bork, conservative icon, dies at 85.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Robert Bork, failed Supreme Court nominee, dies at age 85.”

The Wall Street Journal has a news update headlined “Former High Court Nominee Bork Dies.”

USA Today has a news update headlined “Former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork dies; Bork became a hero to conservatives and a symbol of the heated debate over issues such as abortion.”

The Associated Press has a report headlined “Bork, whose failed nomination made history, dies.”

Bloomberg News reports that “Robert Bork, Judge Defeated in Supreme Court War, Dies at 85.”

David Ingram of Reuters reports that “Conservative U.S. jurist Robert Bork dies at 85.”

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Tony Mauro has a post titled “Defeated Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork Dead at 85.”

Update: Via YouTube, you can access a video tribute that the Federalist Society presented in 2007.

Bork’s C-SPAN appearances can be accessed via this link.

And in October 2012, Adam J. White had an article in Commentary titled “Bork Won.”

“Daring jailbreak kicks off manhunt; 2 bank robbers rappel 15 stories from Loop lockup; police scour suburb where pair last seen”: This article appears today in The Chicago Tribune.

“Partial win against birth control rule”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Federal appeals court rules against New Orleans taxi drivers on all counts”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this news update reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued today.

“NYC’s Met can keep Cezanne painting seized in Russian revolution”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“Master of the Sock Puppets”: Jack Hitt has this blog post online today at The New Yorker.

In related coverage, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans reports that “Scandal in U.S. Attorney’s Office is fodder for The New Yorker.”

“Personal Guns and the Second Amendment”: This editorial appears today in The New York Times.

“Judge OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Data in Landmark Privacy Case”: David Kravets has this post today at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog.

And yesterday at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella had a post titled “Judge Rules for DOJ in Dispute over Cell Tower Data.”

“Mo. man receives $7,000 after arrest for flag desecration”: Online at the First Amendment Center, David L. Hudson Jr. has a report that begins, “A Cape Girardeau, Mo., man arrested for desecrating an American flag must be paid $7,000 in compensatory damages, a federal judge has ruled.”

“Supreme Court Gun Ruling Doesn’t Block Proposed Controls”: Adam Liptak will have this article Wednesday in The New York Times.

“Appeals court sides with newspaper in labor fight”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

“SWAT teams enter Tinley Park home in search for 2 escapees”: The Chicago Tribune has this news update.

“Spurning the beach in Hawaii, senior judge moving to Texas to help out the Western District”: Today at the “Tex Parte Blog” of Texas Lawyer, John Council has a post that begins, “It is safe to assume that most practicing lawyers and judges in the state of Texas have dreamed of retiring on the Hawaiian Islands at some point in their lives. And Senior U.S. District Judge David Ezra is planning a similar journey, except in reverse.”

“Why It Might Be Hard to Completely Ban Gay Conversion Therapy: Is this treatment protected speech? Two California courts disagree.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“I write separately merely to remind the district judges of this circuit of the importance of careful consideration of the wisdom of imposing de facto life sentences.” So begins a concurring opinion that Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner issued today in a case in which a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit unanimously dismissed as frivolous an appeal challenging the imposition of a 50-year federal sentence of imprisonment on a 46-year-old man convicted of producing child pornography.

Congratulations to the “Exemplary Legal Writing 2012 Honorees” of The Green Bag Almanac & Reader: You can view the list of works being honored at this link.

“Two bank robbers escape from Loop federal jail”: The Chicago Sun-Times has this news update.

Update: The Associated Press has a report headlined “2 inmates escape from federal prison in Chicago” that begins, “Two convicted bank robbers are at large after using a knotted rope or bed sheets to escape from a federal prison window high above downtown Chicago early Tuesday, a week after one of them made a courtroom vow of retribution.”

“New Data Shows Judicial Election Ad Spending Breaks Record at $29.7 Million; One Outside Group Spent $429,000 in Louisiana Election”: The Brennan Center for Justice and Justice at Stake issued this news release yesterday.

“The Catch-22 of Eyewitness ID: Juries trust the memory of witnesses even when they shouldn’t.” Skye Nickalls has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“30 Under 30: Law & Policy.” Forbes has the details at this link.

“Post-Newtown gun legislation will hinge on ‘Heller'”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.

And online at The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin has a blog post titled “So You Think You Know the Second Amendment?”

“Montana court rejects gay couples’ equal benefits”: The Associated Press has this report on a 4-to-3 ruling that the Supreme Court of Montana issued yesterday. The court also issued this synopsis of its ruling.

“How might Supreme Court justices view the gay-marriage issues before them?” Beth Hawkins has this report at MinnPost.

“Diehl-Armstrong asks Supreme Court to hear appeal in Erie pizza bomber case”: The Erie (Pa.) Times-News has this report.

“Texas Voter ID Suit Put on Hold Till Supreme Court Rules”: Bloomberg News has this report.

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Scalia in ’08 — Right to bear arms is ‘not unlimited.'” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has a blog post titled “Supreme Court and Guns: Justices Have Yet to ‘Clarify the Entire Field.’”

And at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center, Lyle Denniston has a blog post titled “Constitution Check: Is the Supreme Court partly to blame for Newtown?”

“Appeals court sides with city on Duke lacrosse”: The Herald-Sun of Durham, North Carolina has a news update that begins, “A 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday tossed out all federal-law claims from three groups of Duke University lacrosse players who’ve sued the city and the police who investigated the 2006 Duke lacrosse case.”

And The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has an update headlined “US Appeals Court dismisses bulk of Duke lacrosse claims.”

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