“Passaic County native sworn in as U.S. appeals judge”: This article appeared yesterday in The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey.

“Stanford Ponzi Scheme Opens Supreme Court Term; Dispute Over Whether Law and Insurance Firms Can Be Sued Is Among Spate of Business Cases on Docket”: Brent Kendall will have this article Monday in The Wall Street Journal. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google News.

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Supreme Court: Campaign finance and public prayer top new term agenda; The Supreme Court begins its new term Monday despite the government shutdown; Top cases in the coming months also will address presidential recess appointments and affirmative action.”

Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Supreme Court returns to hot-button issues in ‘year of the sequel.’”

And Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “Church and state, executive power on Supreme Court docket.”

“Pivotal campaign finance case on U.S. high court docket”: Lawrence Hurley and Gabriel Debenedetti of Reuters have this report.

“In divided D.C. for Red Mass, Dallas bishop Kevin Farrell urges respect amid differences”: Michael Lindenberger of The Dallas Morning News has this blog post.

“Supreme Court term begins with contentious topics”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“A Plea for Civility at Annual Red Mass in D.C.” Tony Mauro has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“The Iowa Supreme Court Makes Timeliness a Priority”: Ryan Koopmans has this post today at “On Brief: Iowa’s Appellate Blog.”

On the day before the first Monday in October, Justice Sonia Sotomayor is quoted on the front page of The New York Times: On the subject of New York City’s superiority in restaurant food delivery, in an article headlined “In Age of Anywhere Delivery, the Food Meets You for Lunch.”

“In new term, Supreme Court may steer to right on key social issues; The Supreme Court’s conservative bloc has a clear chance to shift the law to the right on abortion, contraception, religion and campaign funding”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Rough times ahead for Obama.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

“Illegal immigrants allowed to practice law in California”: Reuters has a report that begins, “Illegal immigrants can be licensed to practice law in California under one of eight bills expanding immigrant rights that were signed by Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday.”

A few weeks ago, Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle examined the background of the legislation in an article headlined “Bill would let undocumented immigrants be lawyers.”

And today at the “At the Lectern” blog, David Ettinger has a post titled “Governor signs ‘Garcia’ bill.”

“Affirmative action intact at UNC”: This article appeared in Friday’s edition of The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

And at The Huffington Post, Molly Nestor has a blog entry titled “Why This New Teacher is Going to the Supreme Court” that begins, “When Proposal 2 passed in 2006, it banned race-conscious college admissions policies in Michigan.”

“Supreme Court can rescue another freedom in a campaign cash case”: Columnist George F. Will has this op-ed in The Washington Post.

“The Supreme Court Returns”: This editorial will appear in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Controversy again on docket for Supreme Court; Hot-button issues before the court this term include abortion, affirmative action and campaign donations”: In Sunday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, law professor John C. Eastman will have this op-ed.

In addition, law professor Eric J. Segall will have an op-ed titled “A liberal nightmare at the Supreme Court? Three key high court cases that could dramatically shift U.S. constitutional law to the right are likely to hinge on the vote of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.”

“Argument preview: Campaign finance — again.” Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Court denies foster child’s request to get abortion without adult consent”: The Omaha World-Herald has a news update that begins, “The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday refused a 16-year-old foster child’s request to get an abortion without parental consent.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Nebraska Supreme Court rejects state ward’s request to waive parental consent for abortion.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Nebraska at this link.

“Apple appeals e-books conspiracy ruling; Apple’s attorney files a notice of appeal, which seeks to overturn a federal judge’s decision that Apple orchestrated a conspiracy to cut out e-book competition and raise prices, as well as penalties the judge ordered”: c|net has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Apple files promised appeal in book-collusion case.”

“Alaska’s high court first supreme court in the nation to hear climate change case”: Alaska public radio station KTOO has this report.

You can view the video of yesterday’s oral argument via this link.

“Lady Hale, supreme court’s sole female justice, calls for diversity; UK’s most senior woman judge says since her appointment all 13 posts for judiciary’s highest echelons went to men”: The Guardian (UK) has this report.

“Alabama Supreme Court overturns 1989 decision requiring noncustodial parents to pay college costs for adult children”: AL.com has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Alabama issued today.

“A conversation with Justice Stephen Breyer”: Harvard Law School has posted the video from Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s visit earlier this week at this link.

“Derrick Wang discusses ‘Scalia/Ginsburg,’ his opera about the Supreme Court justices”: The Washington Post has this report.

“Supreme Court justice speaks at UA”: The Crimson White, the student newspaper of the University of Alabama, has this news update.

“Supreme Court and Prayer at Government Meetings”: The PBS program “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly” has posted online this video segment.

“Citizens Divided: The Supreme Court’s Next Campaign Finance Test.” Elizabeth B. Wydra has this blog entry online today at The Huffington Post.

“Shutdown Isn’t Stopping Supreme Court or Solicitor General’s Office”: Tony Mauro has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Kagan: Confirmation process ‘sort of broken.'” The Associated Press has this report.

“The question facing Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Stay or go?” Robert Barnes will have this lengthy cover story in this upcoming Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post Magazine.

“Ohio can use compounding pharmacies for execution drugs”: The Columbus Dispatch has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Ohio announces alternative lethal injection drug.”

“Chief Judge Diane Wood’s Keynote Address at SCIPR 2013: ‘Is It Time to Abolish the Federal Circuit’s Exclusive Jurisdiction in Patent Cases?'” The Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property has this report, which contains a link to Judge Wood’s related essay.

Now we await a call from the Federal Circuit‘s Chief Judge to abolish the Seventh Circuit.

“Big battles brewing over the Constitution’s original meaning”: Doug Kendall and Tom Donnelly have this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Fla. Supreme Court reinstates conviction in case where drug sniffing dog was used”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Florida issued yesterday on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Westlake lawyer to argue Supreme Court case; Event is ‘ambition of virtually every lawyer'”: This article appears today in The Austin American-Statesman.

“Supreme Court Justice Marc Nadon feels a draft after hockey claim whistled down; Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed the appointment of Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court of Canada, as the new judge faced his critics who called him offside for claiming he was ‘drafted’ at 14 to the NHL”: The Toronto Star has this report.

And in yesterday’s edition of The Toronto Globe and Mail, Sean Fein had an article headlined “Newest Supreme Court judge Marc Nadon skates through nomination hearing.”