“Lawyers and opera: Supreme Court edition.” The Chautauquan Daily has this report.

“Judges Ask Supreme Court to Take On Cell-Phone Searches”: At WSJ.com’s “Law Blog,” Joe Palazzolo has this post reporting on an order denying rehearing en banc, and the two separate statements accompanying that order, that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today.
Update: At “The Volokh Consiracy,” Orin Kerr offers these thoughts.

“Class action activist asks SCOTUS to review charity-only settlements”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

Today, the Pa. Superior Court issued four rulings addressing the impact of federal preemption, in the aftermath of Mensing and Bartlett, on state law personal injury claims brought by plaintiffs injured as the result of ingesting Reglan and/or metoclopramide: You can access today’s rulings at the following links — Hassett appeal (majority opinion; concurring and dissenting opinion); main generics’ appeal (majority opinion; concurring and dissenting opinion); Morton Grove appeal (majority opinion; concurring and dissenting opinion); and Wyeth appeal (majority opinion; dissenting opinion).

As noted in this earlier post, I argued these four appeals on behalf of the plaintiffs/appellees in the Pa. Superior Court on November 28, 2012.

“Teva Plan to Safeguard $4 Billion Drug Endangered by Ruling”: Bloomberg News has this report.

My earlier coverage of Friday’s Federal Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“SCOTUSblog on camera: Geoffrey Stone Part one.” Today at “SCOTUSblog,” you can access at this link part one of a video interview with law professor Geoffrey R. Stone.

“Court to Decide if Lawyers Can Block Gays From Juries”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Police Dog’s Bad Record Upends Murder Conviction”: Pamela A. MacLean has this post today at her “Trial Insider” blog reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Justice Ginsburg to speak on two great passions: law, opera.” The Chautauquan Daily has this report.

“With NSA revelations, Sen. Ron Wyden’s vague warnings about privacy finally become clear”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

And today’s edition of The Washington Post reports that “Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance.”

“VCR’s Past Is Guiding Television’s Future”: David Carr has this new installment of his “The Media Equation” column in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“’75 law blocks benefits for gay vets’ spouses”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

“South Carolina court to decide on Baby Veronica transfer to adoptive parents”: This article appears today in The Tulsa World.

“Ron Pauls of the Supreme Court: Libertarianism has won over the conservative justices.” Simon Lazarus has this essay online at The New Republic.