“Religious colleges challenge health care law’s contraception rule”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“Attorneys: Orie Melvin shouldn’t face criminal charges.” In today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Paula Reed Ward has an article that begins, “Defense attorneys for suspended state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin argued in a legal filing Friday that the suspended jurist should not be facing criminal charges because activity by court employees is to be regulated only by the judiciary.”

“In what circumstances, if ever, does the common law duty of a commercial property owner to provide emergency first aid to invitees require the availability of an Automatic External Defibrillator for cases of sudden cardiac arrest?” Today, the majority on a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order certifying that question for resolution by the Supreme Court of California. The dissenting judge would have held that California law imposes the duty in question under the circumstances of this case.

Update: At her “Trial Insider” blog, Pamela A. MacLean has a post titled “Does First Aid Include Providing Defibrillators?”

And Courthouse News Service reports that “Calif. High Court Pulled Into Target Liability Case.”

“New animal-cruelty indictments raise First Amendment questions”: Tony Mauro has this news analysis online at the First Amendment Center.

“ACLU asks OAS to probe Padilla case”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Organization of American States’ human rights commission to investigate the U.S. government for allegedly violating the rights of convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla by labeling him an ‘enemy combatant’ a decade ago and subjecting him to interrogation that amounted to torture, including sleep and sensory deprivation in solitary confinement.”

You can access the ACLU’s petition at this link.

Update: In other coverage, Reuters reports that “‘Enemy combatant’ Padilla files human rights action against U.S. government.”

“U.S. appeals court strikes down state’s concealed-carry ban”: The Chicago Tribune has this news update.

The Chicago Sun-Times has a news update headlined “Federal appeals court tosses state ban on carrying concealed weapons.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Court strikes down Illinois concealed carry law.”

My earlier coverage of today’s Seventh Circuit ruling appears in the post immediately below.

Update: In other coverage, Bloomberg News reports that “Court Voids Illinois Loaded-Gun Ban Outside Home, Work.”

And Reuters reports that “Appeals court strikes down Illinois ban on handguns in public.”

Majority on divided three-judge Seventh Circuit panel invalidates under the Second Amendment an Illinois law forbidding most people from carrying a loaded gun in public: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote the majority opinion, in which Circuit Judge Joel M. Flaum joined. Circuit Judge Ann Claire Williams issued a dissenting opinion.

Update: The majority opinion concludes: “we order our mandate stayed for 180 days to allow the Illinois legislature to craft a new gun law that will impose reasonable limitations, consistent with the public safety and the Second Amendment as interpreted in this opinion, on the carrying of guns in public.”

“For Marriage Equality, the Work’s Not Just in Court”: Evan Wolfson has this op-ed online today at The New York Times.

“Iowa Supreme Court to Hear Birth-Certificate Case Brought By Same-Sex Couple”: Ryan Koopmans has this post today at “On Brief: Iowa’s Appellate Blog.”

“Pushing same-sex marriage ahead”: Charles Lane has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

And online at The New Republic, law professor Jeffrey Rosen has a blog post titled “Can Gay Marriage Supporters Count on Kennedy?”

“GOP mute as Supreme Court tackles gay marriage”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.

“Edie Windsor, the Unlikely (and Ideal) Face of Same-Sex Marriage: An 82-year-old plaintiff, whose case may finally end the Defense of Marriage Act, looks back at her four-decade-long union to the love of her life.” Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Appeal of $7.2 bln card-fee settlement deferred”: Erin Geiger Smith of Reuters has this report.

“Supreme Court Asked to Review $222K Landmark File-Sharing Case”: David Kravets has this post at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog.

“Scalia defends opposition to gay rights in response to question at Princeton”: This front page article appears today in The Daily Princetonian.

Federal law preempts Mississippi’s Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act, Fifth Circuit rules: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Christie introduces 2 new nominees for N.J. Supreme Court”: The Newark Star-Ledger has this news update.

And The Philadelphia Inquirer has a blog post titled “Christie makes two ‘compromise’ picks to fill Supreme Court.”

“Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia rejects idea of ‘Living Constitution'”: The Times of Trenton (N.J.) has this news update.

The Associated Press is reporting: Mark Sherman has an article headlined “Sotomayor book offers personal look.”

And in other news, “Supreme Court Justice defends his arguments in NJ.”

“Court system braces for layoffs as clock on fiscal crisis ticks”: FoxNews.com has this report today.

“The Supreme Court’s burgeoning business agenda”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“Federal judge: State can’t offer only ‘Choose Life’ license plates.” The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has an update that begins, “A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina cannot issue ‘Choose Life’ license plates without offering a choice of plates with a different viewpoint.”

You can access last Friday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina at this link.

“In D.C. Circuit, AIG Defends Confidentiality of Corporate Monitor Reports”: Mike Scarcella has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Access online today’s ruling in an argued case of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court today issued one decision in an argued case.

Justice Elena Kagan delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Kloeckner v. Solis, No. 11-184. You can access the oral argument via this link.

Update: In early news coverage, The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: District court can hear some fed complaints.”

“California gay couples hoped Supreme Court would avoid same-sex marriage case”: Reuters has this report.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: You can access today’s Order List at this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

At 10 a.m. eastern time today, the Court is expected to issue one or more rulings in argued cases.

Update: In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Justices won’t reinstate award against Hustler mag.”

And Reuters reports that “Top court rejects taxpayer challenge to AIG bailout” and “U.S. top court won’t consider fate of trademarks in bankruptcy.”

“Mattel Returns to Judges Who Threw Out Bratz Verdict”: Bloomberg News has this report.

“Federal Circuit Declines Chance to Eliminate Split Involving Standard of Review, Prompting Blistering Dissent”: Nicholas J. Wagoner has this post today at the “Circuit Splits” blog.

“Constitution nearly impossible to amend: Is the bar too high?” Eric Black has this essay today at MinnPost.

And online at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Alexander C. Kafka has a review titled “The Constitution: Who Needs It?” of law professor Louis Michael Seidman‘s forthcoming book, “On Constitutional Disobedience.”

“Supreme Court takes up case on generic drugs”: Politico.com has this report.

“Hope and fear in gay marriage cases at high court”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report. The AP also reports that “Minn. gay couple in ’71 marriage case still united.”

And TPM DC reports that “In 2003, Justice Scalia Saw Gay Marriage Coming.”

“Doctors await Supreme Court roadmap for right-to-live cases”: Kirk Makin has this article today in The Toronto Globe and Mail.

“Same-Sex Issue Pushes Justices Into Overdrive”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

And in Monday’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes will have a new installment of his “The High Court” column headlined “Case reviews could test Obama’s ‘evolution’ on same-sex marriage.”

Disagreement between Chief Judge Easterbrook and Circuit Judge Posner on whether to affirm criminal convictions obtained on “stated income” mortgage loans has resulted in the Seventh Circuit‘s granting of rehearing en banc: You can access Friday’s order granting rehearing en banc at this link.

The original three-judge panel’s decision, which the order granting rehearing en banc has vacated, can be accessed here. Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook wrote the majority opinion, which upheld the convictions. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner dissented.

You can access the audio of the oral argument before the original three-judge panel via this link.

Opponent of wind farm construction loses Seventh Circuit appeal: Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote the opinion, issued Friday, on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.