“Accessing oral arguments in federal appellate cases”: Derek Muller has this post today at his blog, “Excess of Democracy.”

“Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required for GPS Trackers”: At Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, Kim Zetter has a post that begins, “An appellate court has finally supplied an answer to an open question left dangling by the Supreme Court in 2012: Do law enforcement agencies need a probable-cause warrant to affix a GPS tracker to a target’s vehicle?”

You can access today’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

“SCOTUSblog on camera: Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. — Part two.” You can access the video, the second of five parts, via this link.

“Victorian supreme court to submit to blogging to keep public informed; Rather than just accept the dwindling presence of court reporters, chief justice wants to bring court into digital age”: The Guardian (UK) has this report.

“Supreme Court’s DOMA decision driving same-sex marriage efforts in states”: Pew Research Center has this report.

“Disgraced Reporter Stephen Glass Taking Case for Bar Admission to Calif. Supreme Court”: The Wrap has this report.

“Hobby Lobby asks Supreme Court to hear contraceptives case; Oklahoma City-based retailer files brief agreeing with the federal government that the high court should take up the case”: This article appears today in The Oklahoman.

“Another Means-Plus-Function Patent: Invalid as Indefinite.” Dennis Crouch has this post at “Patently-O” about a victory that Mercedes-Benz USA achieved today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

“Federal appeals court upholds medicating Upper Peninsula man accused of attempted Detroit bombing”: MLive.com has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Mentally ill man linked to bomb outside Detroit federal building can be forcibly medicated.”

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

“At Last, the Supreme Court Turns to Mental Disability and the Death Penalty; A new case will give the justices a chance to address a compromise that simply doesn’t work”: Andrew Cohen has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

“Smallest political donors appeal Florida’s restrictions to Supreme Court”: The Washington Times has this report.

“Federal court mulling delay of Texas abortion law”: The Associated Press has this report.

And Bloomberg News reports that “Texas Abortion Laws Will Close Clinics, Witness Testifies.”

“Supreme Court to hear Hard 50 appeal; Tuesday docket includes man convicted in 2009 murder of Johnson County woman”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Kansas Supreme Court justices on Tuesday will hear the first appeal of a Hard 50 prison sentence since lawmakers changed the way the sentence is imposed during a September special session.”

“Justices reject appeal in bathtub-drowning case”: This article appears today in The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.

“A judicial mea culpa better left unsaid”: Columnist Charles Lane of The Washington Post has this op-ed.

“In New Haven, Justice Sotomayor shares the story of her life”: This article appears today in The New Haven Register.

More information about Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s visit yesterday to Southern Connecticut State University can be accessed here.

“Constitution Check: How strong is the same-sex marriage tide running?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Argument Misdemeanors — Five Ways to ruin your oral argument”: L.J. Puleo has this blog post today at “Litigator Rex.”

“Federalism and Phantom Economic Rights in NFIB v. Sebelius”: Law professor Matthew J. Lindsay has posted this article online at SSRN (via “Legal Theory Blog“).

Under the “three strikes” provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, restricting a prisoner’s ability to maintain suit in forma pauperis, may an earlier suit rejected at the summary judgment stage count as a strike? A sharply divided en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today ruled by a margin of 8-to-5 (with an additional judge concurring in the judgment solely on other grounds) that an earlier suit decided against the prisoner at the summary judgment stage can constitute a “dismissal” for purposes of the applicable “three strikes” provision.

“States’ online ‘Amazon tax’ fight may land in U.S. Supreme Court: lawyers.” Reuters has this report.

“Hobby Lobby asks Supreme Court to take up case”: The Associated Press has this report.

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Hobby Lobby supports review.”

“Justices Agree to Clarify Mental Disability in Capital Cases”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news update.

And Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Death penalty: Supreme Court to hear case of mentally deficient Florida man; Florida says the man does not score below its 70-point IQ cutoff line for death penalty cases, but the Supreme Court has decided to consider whether his execution would be cruel and unusual.”

Update: In other coverage, David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court to grapple with mental disability and the death penalty.”

And Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau reports that “Supreme Court will rule on role of mental disability in death row case.”

“Jim Thorpe, Pa., fights to keep its namesake; His family wants to return the athlete’s remains to the Oklahoma reservation where he grew up; But the town wants to keep Jim Thorpe in Jim Thorpe”: David Zucchino had this front page article in last Friday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“On Reading Proust: Stephen Breyer, interviewed by Ioanna Kohler.” This interview (full text now freely available), translated from French into English, appears in the November 7, 2013 issue of The New York Review of Books.

“Arab Bank Gets U.S. Supreme Court Query in Terrorism Case”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

And David Ingram and Lawrence Hurley of Reuters have a report headlined “U.S. high court asks Obama administration’s view on bank secrecy.”

“SCOTUSblog on camera: Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. — Part one.” You can access the video, the first of five parts, via this link.

“Right the First Time: Judge Richard Posner’s mistaken change of heart on voter ID.” Hans A. von Spakovsky has this essay at National Review Online.

“Justices to rule on ‘mental retardation’ in death case”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Christie withdraws appeal of gay marriage ruling”: The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger has a news update that begins, “Gov. Chris Christie announced today that he was dropping the fight against same-sex marriage in New Jersey by withdrawing his his appeal of a major case that was being heard by the state Supreme Court.”

The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey has a news update headlined “Christie administration withdraws appeal of ruling allowing gay marriage in NJ.”

The New York Times has a news update headlined “Christie Withdraws Appeal of Same-Sex Marriage Ruling in New Jersey.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update headlined “Christie drops gay marriage appeal.”

The Associated Press reports that “NJ Gov. Christie drops gay marriage appeal.”

Bloomberg News reports that “Christie Withdraws Gay Marriage Appeal as Couples Wed.”

And Reuters reports that “Gay marriage becomes legal in N.J. after Christie drops opposition.”

“Law Scholarship’s Lackluster Reviews”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court has posted today’s Order List at this link. The Court granted review in two new cases and called for the views of the Solicitor General in one case.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “High court to look at death row inmate with low IQ.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court grants two cases.”

“Celebrating Justice Stephen Breyer at HLS”: Harvard Law School has posted online at YouTube the video of this recent panel discussion (scroll down for sidebar titled “Legal scholars discuss Breyer’s ‘Greatest Decisions'”).

“Making Every Vote Count, for Real”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost On Justice.”

“Texas Abortion Restrictions Tested at Trial in Austin”: Bloomberg News has this report.

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Next round in fight over abortion restrictions.”