“Abortion and Gay Marriage: Separate Issues; America has become more pro-life, more pro-gun, and more pro-gay.” Jonah Goldberg has this essay today at National Review Online.

“EXCLUSIVE: EMails Show Prop. 8 Judge Sought Ted Olson’s Advice On Whether to Attend Supreme Court Argument on Gay Marriage.” Patterico has this post today at his blog, “Patterico’s Pontifications.”

“Preview: Gay-marriage cases to define U.S. Supreme Court legacy.” Joan Biskupic of Reuters has this report.

“Florida ruling could force tobacco sector’s hand in Engle cases”: Reuters has this report.

“New Orleans judge rules statute forbidding felons from having firearms unconstitutional after ‘fundamental right’ amendment”: The Times-Picayune has this report.

Via “The Volokh Conspiracy,” you can access the trial court’s ruling at this link.

“UPMC, Pittsburgh stake positions for court fight on nonprofit status”: This article appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“Argument preview: Is ‘pay for delay’ of drugs illegal?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Meet The 83-Year-Old Taking On The U.S. Over Same-Sex Marriage”: This audio segment featuring Nina Totenberg appeared on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“UK Supreme Court holds first secret session in Iran bank case”: Reuters has this report.

“Senate filibustering amounts to contempt of the courts: The Senate’s habit of filibustering judicial nominees must end; Both Republicans and Democrats are to blame.” This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“The Constitution and Same-Sex Marriage: Next week the Supreme Court will be asked to decide an issue in an area in which it has said it has no jurisdiction.” Law professor Michael W. McConnell will have this op-ed Friday in The Wall Street Journal.

“Supreme Court’s gay marriage cases: What they’re about, what they could mean.” Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“Motorola: Posner anti-injunction doctrine will kill innovation.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“United States v. Auernheimer, and Why I Am Representing Auernheimer Pro Bono on Appeal Before the Third Circuit”: Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Will the Supreme Court Recognize Edith Windsor?” Amy Davidson has this blog post online at The New Yorker.

“Court affirms Isohunt copyright infringement, says company encouraged piracy; The Appeals court decision isn’t good news for internet services”: Greg Sandoval has this post at “The Verge.”

And Joe Mullin of Ars Technica has a post titled “Appeals court deals a major blow to torrent site IsoHunt; Site’s founder helped users infringe, blew off ‘red flags.’”

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

Update:In other coverage, at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post titled “File-Sharing Service isoHunt Illegally Fosters Piracy, Appeals Court Says.”

Seventh Circuit Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook will appear on this weekend’s broadcast of C-SPAN2’s “Book TV” to discuss Robert H. Bork‘s posthumously published book, “Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General“: You can view the broadcast schedule for the program at this link.

“Judges in Love: Three Seventh Circuit Judges Getting Married.” David Lat has this post at “Above the Law.”

“Gay marriage? These voices say ‘No’ and explain why; Disparaged as bigots, these diverse voices say they’re simply defending American society.” Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“DOMA is an abuse of federalism”: Columnist George F. Will has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

“Maryland Requirement for Gun-Carry Permit Upheld by Court”: Bloomberg News has this report.

And The Baltimore Sun has a news update headlined “Federal appellate court upholds Md. handgun permit laws; Concealed-carry laws had been in jeopardy after lower court ruling.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit via “The Volokh Conspiracy” at this link.

Update: The opinion can now also be accessed via the Fourth Circuit’s web site at this link.

“Northern California Bar Hosts Ninth Circuit Luncheon”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted online this news release.

“Judging Humor”: Online at The New Yorker, Robert Mankoff has this blog post, with a large assist from law professor Laura E. Little.

“Goldman can arbitrate gender discrimination lawsuit: court.” Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

Update: In other coverage, Bloomberg News reports that “Ex-Goldman Employee Must Arbitrate Her Claim of Sex Bias.”

And Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight reports that “2nd Circuit squelches Title VII exception to mandatory arbitration.”

“Kentucky Supreme Court disbars famed class-action attorney Stanley Chesley”: The Lexington Herald-Leader has this news update.

Update: You can access the Supreme Court of Kentucky‘s ruling at this link.

And in other coverage, The Cincinnati Enquirer has a news update headlined “Chesley disbarred by Ky. Supreme Court.”

“Thorny Questions for Justices in Raisin Case”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

“Justices Back Loggers in Water Runoff Case”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

The Oregonian reports that “Timber industry celebrates Supreme Court decision on logging roads.”

And Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Supreme Court rejects environmentalists’ plea: why Scalia dissented; The Supreme Court ruled 7-1 against environmentalists’ bid to force the EPA to regulate runoff from logging roads; But how federal agencies’ rules are interpreted needs to be reviewed, Scalia warned.”

“Pittsburgh lawsuit challenges UPMC’s tax status”: Moriah Balingit has this article today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review contains an article headlined “Ravenstahl: Pittsburgh sues to remove UPMC’s tax-exempt status.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Pa. cities take fight to tax-exempt institutions.”

“Ten Commandments: Proposal legalizes displays; ACLU says Alabama lawmakers are setting themselves up for lawsuits.” The Montgomery Advertiser contains this article today.

“Supreme Court strikes down state Medicaid recovery law”: Terry Baynes of Reuters has this report.

And Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers reports that “Supreme Court trims N.C. share of disabled child’s malpractice settlement.”

“As Gay Marriage Heads To Court, A Look Back At The Bumpy Ride”: This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

The Associated Press has a report headlined “Changed minds & demographics in gay marriage shift.”

And at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center, Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Constitution Check: Will the Supreme Court be guided by polls about same-sex marriage?”

“St. Joseph Abbey casket sales can’t be stopped by funeral industry, federal court rules”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Fifth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“For lawyers, the Supreme Court bar is vanity trip”: The Associated Press has this report.

“$10 court-records access fee proposed”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that begins, “Looking up records in the county courthouse, which is now free, would cost $10 per file under a proposal in Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget that was quietly drafted by officials of the cash-starved state courts.”

“Antitrust scholar Douglas Ginsburg to join George Mason faculty”: Andrew Longstreth of Reuters has this report.