“First Circuit Court affirms validity of Providence anti-tobacco laws”: The Providence (R.I.) Journal has this news update reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today.

“Christie Wants State’s Top Court To Block Gay Marriage Ruling”: This article will appear in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

And The Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey reports that “Christie seeks to delay start date for same-sex marriages.”

“Dignity in Windsor, at the VC and in NJ”: Law professor Kevin C. Walsh has this post today at his blog, “walshslaw.”

“Opening Third Circuit Brief in Thorpe v. Borough of Jim Thorpe”: Matthew L.M. Fletcher has this post today at the “Turtle Talk” blog providing access to the Borough’s Brief for Appellant filed one week ago today.

“The Supremes are back, and another docket of big cases looms”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau has this report.

“3rd Circuit is trying to kill consumer class actions: new en banc brief.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“The Next Citizens United? The campaign finance case at the Supreme Court next week will be big — or huge.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen — author of the “Election Law Blog” — has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Al Bahlul Argument Post-Mortem”: Jennifer Daskal and Steve Vladeck have this post at the “Just Security” blog.

Update: The Associated Press reports that “Judges weigh whether to toss terror conviction.”

David Ingram of Reuters reports that “U.S. tries to salvage case against bin Laden’s publicist.”

At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Zoe Tillman has a post titled “D.C. Circuit Hears Guantanamo Detainee Challenge.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “New limit on war crimes trials?”

You can access the audio of today’s en banc oral argument via this link (31.8 MB mp3 audio file).

“Oral Argument Preview: NYT & ACLU v. United States.” Today at the “Lawfare” blog, Matt Danzer has this preview of a case scheduled for oral argument tomorrow afternoon at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit before a panel consisting of Circuit Judges Jose A. Cabranes and Rosemary S. Pooler and Senior Circuit Judge Jon O. Newman.

“Kathleen Kane’s Gay Marriage Mutiny: How a tough chick from Scranton became Pennsylvania’s Attorney General — and Tom Corbett’s worst nightmare.” Patrick Kerkstra has this article in the October 2013 issue of Philadelphia magazine.

Dissenters from en banc Fifth Circuit ruling ridicule majority’s holding with a make-believe memo titled “Etiquette for Ironworkers”: You can access last Friday’s en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in EEOC v. Boh Brothers Const Co. at this link. The memo appears at page 58 of the decision, as an attachment to the dissent of Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones.

This morning at the ABA Journal’s “Law News Now” blog, Debra Cassens Weiss has a post about the en banc ruling titled “Harassed for being unmanly? En banc court sees Title VII violation; dissent sees clean-talk enforcer.”

“Robin Rosenbaum being vetted for 11th Circuit”: David Oscar Markus has this post today at his “Southern District of Florida Blog.”

“Politics the spoiler: A judge’s success story is rebuffed by a senator.” This editorial appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“Newly Declassified Documents Show How the Surveillance State was Born”: Law professor Jeffrey Rosen has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Birth Control Rule Reaches High Court”: John Gramlich and Melissa Attias have this article in CQ Weekly.

“Freedom of Information: A British newspaper wants to take its aggressive investigations global, but money is running out.” Ken Auletta has this article about The Guardian (UK) in the October 7, 2013 issue of The New Yorker.

“U.S. Supreme Court meets to consider hearing Argentina bonds case”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Lord Hodge joins UK Supreme Court as new Scottish Justice”: The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom issued this news release today.

Access blog previews of today’s en banc D.C. Circuit oral argument in Ali Hamza Ahmad al Bahlul v. United States: At 9:30 a.m. today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is scheduled to hold an en banc reargument in the Al-Bahlul case.

Yesterday at the “Lawfare” blog, Steve Vladeck had a post titled “Handicapping al Bahlul.”

In addition, Raffaela Wakeman had a post titled “Oral Argument Preview: Al-Bahlul v. United States.”

And last Friday at the “Just Security” blog,” Jennifer Daskal had a post titled “Preview — Al Bahlul in the D.C. Circuit: The Fate of Military Commissions at Guantanamo.”

In addition, Marty Lederman had a post titled “The Other, Lurking Constitutional Question in al-Bahlul.”

Once the en banc oral argument audio becomes available online, I will link to it.

“Verrilli Scores Well at Supreme Court Despite Questions”: Kenneth Jost had this post yesterday at his blog, “Jost On Justice.”

“Kennedy ’77 discusses benefits of ‘positive’ discrimination in new book on affirmative action”: This article appears today in The Daily Princetonian.

“Lawyers Olson and Boies want Virginia as same-sex marriage test case”: Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.

“Political giving tops U.S. Supreme Court’s docket”: Bob Egelko will have this article in Monday’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle.

“Longtime litigator’s aviation specialty will land him before U.S. Supreme Court; Longtime litigator Donald Chance Mark has an aviation specialty that soon will land him before the U.S. Supreme Court”: Monday’s edition of The Minneapolis Star Tribune will contain this article.

“Birth Control and a Boss’s Religious Views”: This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Contraception mandate reaches justices.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

“Lobbyist who wrote book about Justice Scalia might need his help; The Supreme Court may consider an appeal of a bribery conviction from Kevin Ring, a lobbyist who wrote a book about Justice Antonin Scalia”: David G. Savage will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“Court to remain open — for now”: Lyle Denniston has this post tonight at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt.” Today’s edition of The Toronto Globe and Mail contains this very lengthy front page article.

“Climate data case in state Supreme Court may affect FOIA”: Today’s edition of The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Virginia contains a front page article that begins, “Efforts by a conservative group to gain access to data and emails used by a former University of Virginia researcher who studied climate change could change legal interpretations of the state’s freedom of information laws.”

“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to Deliver Tufts University’s Snyder Lecture”: Tufts University issued this news release earlier this week. The lecture will occur on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 2, 2013.

“Gay Marriage Patchwork Seen as Courts Wrestle With Ruling”: Bloomberg News has this report.

“Fourth Circuit Judge Andre Davis to Take Senior Status”: Steve Klepper has this post today at the “Maryland Appellate Blog.”

Finding an appellate angle at today’s sixth annual Duffy + Partners Hangar Party: It’s “Briefing Time.”

The Supreme Court of Canada today issued two rulings in cases involving drug sniffing dogs: You can access the rulings here and here.

In early coverage, The Toronto Globe and Mail has a news update headlined “Supreme Court allows wider use of police ‘sniffer dogs.’”

And The Toronto Star has a news update headlined “Supreme Court stands by rules on sniffer dog searches; The Supreme Court has upheld the actions of police officers who acted on ‘reasonable suspicion’ to deploy police dogs to search for drugs.”