“A Supreme visit: Chief Justice Roberts makes historic visit to region.” The Observer of Dunkirk, New York contains this front page article today.

“Catherine E. Greig’s 8-year-prison sentence was justified, federal court rules”: John R. Ellement of The Boston Globe has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “8-year term for Bulger girlfriend upheld in Mass.”

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

“Liberty University pivots in health law challenge”: Politico.com has this report.

“Justice Sotomayor Urges Immigrant Parents to Aid Their Children’s Education”: Mark Walsh has this post today at the “School Law” blog of Education Week.

My earlier coverage appears at this link.

“Judge lets defense lawyers withdraw from Chevron fraud lawsuit”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.

And at Forbes.com, Daniel Fisher has a blog post titled “Judge Grudgingly Lets Donziger’s Lawyers Out Of Chevron Case.” Fisher has posted a copy of the ruling at this link.

“This case requires us to decide whether the police, after seizing a cell phone from an individual’s person as part of his lawful arrest, can search the phone’s data without a warrant.” In a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today, the majority held that “such a [warrantless] search exceeds the boundaries of the Fourth Amendment search-incident-to-arrest exception.”

“Full Court Press: Perspectives on Covering the Supreme Court.” The First Amendment Center posted this video online today.

You can also access the video directly via YouTube.

“Court: Law applying crack sentences retroactive.” The Associated Press has this report.

My earlier coverage of today’s Sixth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Plaintiff in excessive-force taser case lists defendant as ‘Taser Joe'”: John Council has this post today at the “Tex Parte Blog” of Texas Lawyer.

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

“Judge grants injunction in Ark. abortion ban case”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal judge on Friday granted a request to temporarily block enforcement of a new Arkansas law that bans most abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy.”

“Scene in D.C.: Justice Stevens, Donahue at Citizen Awards.” Bloomberg News has this report.

“No-show judge bolsters Chevron’s attack on $19 billion judgment; The Ecuadorian judge who awarded the environment judgment against Chevron was a no-show witness for a deposition in Peru”: Roger Parloff of Fortune magazine has this blog post today.

“LGBT PC: Being against marriage equality doesn’t make you a monster.” Michael Kinsley has this essay online today at The New Republic.

“Chief Justice Roberts: ‘It is great to be back home.'” Buffalo, New York’s NPR News station has this report (with audio).

And The Buffalo News has an update headlined “Chief Justice Roberts marks 10th anniversary of Jackson Center.”

Sixth Circuit holds “that the federal judicial perpetuation of the racially discriminatory mandatory minimum crack sentences for those defendants sentenced under the old crack sentencing law, as the government advocates, would violate the Equal Protection Clause.” A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued this ruling today.

“Stevens: Rationale for Bush v. Gore was ‘unacceptable’; The former Supreme Court justice speaks out on John Roberts and the case that decided the 2000 election.” Salon.com has this report.

“Discussion: What’s Going on at Gitmo?” At 2 p.m. eastern time this afternoon, ProPublica will host this discussion with Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald, Ryan J. Reilly of the Huffington Post, and Charlie Savage of The New York Times.

“‘Iqbal Effect’ on housing, employment cases skews Republican: new study.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“Federal court hears appeal over Delaware court secrecy”: Sean O’Sullivan of The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware has this news update.

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit via this link (17.5 MB Windows Media audio file).

Update: In other coverage, Reuters reports that “Appeals court questions ‘secret justice’ in Delaware.”

“Obama names Utah state judge to 10th Circuit bench; Sens. Hatch, Lee say McHugh’s intelligence will serve her well”: Thomas Burr of The Salt Lake Tribune has this news update.

“Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech”: Tom Schoenberg of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Fight Over Obama Appointees May Spur Senate Rule Change”: This article will appear Friday in The New York Times.

“Top appeals court nominee sails toward confirmation; He’s argued more than two dozen cases before the Supreme Court; Now, Sri Srinivasan could be moving toward a seat on the bench himself”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

At “The Note” blog of ABC News, Ariane de Vogue has a post titled “SCOTUS Watch: Keep an Eye on Srikanth Srinivasan.”

And The Hill has a blog post titled “Senate panel approves Obama nominee for key court post.”

“Court ruling unsealed in D.C. campaign investigation”: The Washington Post has this news update.

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Zoe Tillman has a post titled “Unsealed Opinion Offers Few Clues on Mayoral Probe.”

“Sequel to the Fifth Circuit’s Quorum Conundrum: Comer v. Murphy Oil II.” Law professor Adam Steinman has this post today at “Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog” about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued Tuesday.

“Songs for the Supremes”: Jess Bravin has this post (pass-through link) today at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”

“Jane Kelly’s experience rare on US appeals court”: The Associated Press has this report.

“At D.C. Circuit, Contractor Case Merits Take Backseat”: Andrew Ramonas has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Supreme Court Justice Urges Immigrant Parents to Help Children with School”: The SchoolBook web site of WNYC Radio has this report (with audio).

“Second appeals court invalidates Obama’s NLRB recess appointments”: Tal Kopan of Politico.com has this blog post.

My earlier coverage of today’s Third Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Arkansas Ordered to Face Lawsuit Challenging Abortion Law”: Bloomberg News has this report.

“Senate committee approves 3 judicial nominees”: The Associated Press has this report.

“The Forty-Year Fight”: In today’s edition of The Chicago Weekly, Olivia Dorow Hovland has an article that begins, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s diminutive stature was dwarfed by the marshals that surrounded her as she made her way down the main aisle of the University of Chicago Law School auditorium Saturday afternoon.”

“Delaware’s Chancery Court seeks to restart ‘secret’ hearings”: Reuters has this report on a case scheduled for oral argument today at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

“Cops Should Get Warrants to Read Your E-Mail, Attorney General Says”: David Kravets has this post today at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog.