“Conservatives likely to write most remaining decisions in Supreme Court’s term”: Robert Barnes will have this new installment of his “The High Court” column in Monday’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Medical ethicists say stop Guantanamo force-feeding”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Obama chooses lawyer as Guantanamo closure envoy.”

Update: In Monday’s edition of The New York Times, Charlie Savage will have an article headlined “Kerry Associate Chosen for Post on Closing Guantanamo Prison.”

“Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Why Justice Stevens Is Dead Wrong About DNA Searches: Is it really less intrusive to collect someone’s vital data for eternity than it is to rummage through his papers briefly?” Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Why Both Sides Want Gay Marriage Settled By The States”: Alan Greenblatt has this report online at NPR.

“U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata”: Barton Gellman has this front page article today in The Washington Post.

“Sunday Dialogue: How the Court Decides.” This letter to the editor and responses to it appear in the Sunday Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Affirmative action ruling contest: race vs. class.” The Associated Press has this report.

“Supreme Court gay-marriage rulings: Anything but simple; The Supreme Court rulings are not as simple as whether gays and lesbians can marry or not, and whether they become eligible for federal benefits.” Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Alabama Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether to reconsider its brand name drug liability opinion”: The Birmingham News has this report.

“Supreme Court considers landmark equality cases; Justices are deciding whether to pull back on 1960s-era remedies for racial discrimination, while extending equal marriage rights to gays and lesbians”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Natural DNA can’t be patented.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

And in earlier coverage, The Seattle Times had an article headlined “UW geneticist who discovered breast-cancer genes flying high over Supreme Court ruling; The University of Washington geneticist who discovered the breast cancer genes at the heart of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision said Thursday that she’s ‘as high as the flag on the Fourth of July.'”

“Castille: McCaffery should ‘rethink his position’ on Pa. high court.” On Wednesday, Dave Davies of WHYY-FM in Philadelphia had this post at his “Off Mic” blog.

Senior First Circuit Judge Bruce M. Selya, in the news: Reuters reports that “Web companies begin releasing surveillance information after U.S. deal.” The article, in its current form, refers to “U.S. District Judge Bruce Selya, who headed the FISA court’s Court of Review.”

And in related commentary, today at The New Yorker’s “Close Read” blog, Amy Davidson has a post titled “Yahoo and the Secret Court.”

“Behind Scolding of the F.D.A., a Complex and Gentle Judge”: In today’s edition of The New York Times, Pam Belluck has a front page article that begins, “The judge whose vehement ruling ordered the Obama administration to surrender and make the morning-after pill available to all ages without a prescription is strikingly soft-spoken, so much so that to hear him in chambers, a visitor must sometimes lean forward from the raspberry-and-chartreuse striped sofa that is a legacy from his parents’ 1940s Brooklyn living room.”

“Prenda Law is ‘winding down,’ and desperate to avoid a costly appeal; A $237,000 up-front bill for appeal is off-base, argue porn-trolling lawyers”: Joe Mullin of Ars Technica has this report.

“Guantanamo’s first secret national security session a mystery”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report.

“Harvard Geneticists React to Supreme Court’s Gene Patent Ruling; Medical School professors expect decision to have little impact on scientific landscape”: The Harvard Crimson has this report.

And online at Slate, Noam Prywes has an essay titled “The Supreme Court’s Sketchy Science: Their BRCA patent ruling reads like an earnest seventh grader’s book report.”

The prepared text of retired Justice John Paul Stevens’ remarks this afternoon to the American Constitution Society can be accessed online: At this link.

Update: In coverage of the speech, at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Matthew Huisman has a post titled “Former Justice Stevens Supports Majority in DNA Swab Case.”

“Bosch v. Pylon: 1292(c)(2) CAFC Jurisdiction.” Jason Rantanen has this post at “Patently-O” about an 81-page en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued today.

“Fourth Circuit Strikes NLRB Poster Rule”: Jenna Greene has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

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

“U.S. High Court Vacates 11th Cir. On Plea; No automatic reversal for ‘beyond the pale’ remarks”: Alyson M. Palmer has this article today in The Fulton County (Ga.) Daily Report.

“Supreme Court strikes down part of L.A. port’s Clean Truck Program; The court rules that trucking companies don’t have to affix placards to their vehicles or have off-site parking plans to haul goods in and out of the seaport”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Calls from a justice raise concerns”: Craig R. McCoy has this article today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Update: In earlier related coverage, on Wednesday, Amaris Elliott-Engel of The Legal Intelligencer had an article headlined “Sources: Justice McCaffery Contacted FJD About Cases.”

“After Patent Ruling, Availability of Gene Tests Could Broaden”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

And Bloomberg News reports that “Myriad Gene Patent Ruling Triggers Race for Cancer Tests.”

“Supreme Court archive has about 14K hours of audio”: Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press has this report.

“Constitution Check: Has the ACLU cleared a big hurdle to challenging secret spying?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Stevens tapped for high court vacancy; Sugarloaf resident has served as president judge of state Superior Court since 2011”: This article appears today in The Times-Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

And The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports today that “Corbett nominates Superior Court judge to fill Pa. Supreme Court vacancy.”

“Senate approves two Pa. judges to federal bench”: The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“Alabama high court grants rehearing over brand-drugmaker liability”: Terry Baynes of Reuters has a report that begins, “The Alabama Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to reconsider arguments over whether a brand-name drug company can be held liable for injuries allegedly caused by a competitor’s product.”

“Federal court ruling loosens reporting requirements for independent political expenditures in Iowa”: The Des Moines Register has this news update reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued today.

“Supreme Court Issues New Rule Barring Protests on Plaza”: Adam Liptak has this post at “The Caucus” blog of The New York Times.

And at Politico.com, Tal Kopan has a blog post titled “Supreme Court issues new protest ban.”

“On DNA, Scalia was right”: Columnist Eugene Robinson will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Guantanamo judge orders first closed session of Obama war court”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report.

“SCOTUS in Myriad: Federal Circuit doesn’t know what’s patent-eligible.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.