“Grand Forks grandparent visitation case appealed to N.D. Supreme Court”: This front page article appears today in The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, North Dakota.

“Digital era confounds the courts”: Tal Kopan of Politico.com has this report.

“San Francisco jail sex-bias case heads to court”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this preview of a case scheduled for oral argument Wednesday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

“Iowa Supreme Court disagreeing more; Dissenting votes on the increase for Iowa Supreme Court”: This front page article appears today in The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

“Yes, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg should still retire”: Jonathan Bernstein had this blog entry yesterday at “The Plum Line” blog of The Washington Post.

“Liberals push wish list on Obama”: Alexander Bolton of The Hill has a blog post that begins, “Labor unions and liberal groups are pressing President Obama to select left-wing nominees for key regulatory and judicial posts in the aftermath of the Senate nuclear option.”

And The Hill also has a blog post by Ben Goad and Julian Hattem titled “Easier road seen for Obama regs.”

“Abortion Cases in Court Helped Tilt Democrats Against the Filibuster”: Jeremy W. Peters has this article today in The New York Times.

Esme E. Deprez of Bloomberg Businessweek has an article headlined “The Vanishing Abortion Clinic.”

And online at Bloomberg View, Megan McArdle has an essay titled “A Fight Over Contraception Won’t Help Obamacare.”

“What Filibuster Reform Critics Forget: the Federal Judge Shortage: A noted federal appeals courts judge tries to soft-shoe last week’s filibuster reform — and ends up sounding like a partisan miffed about the restoration of a fully-populated judiciary.” Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Despite Outlaw Image, Hells Angels Sue Often”: Serge F. Kovaleski has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Prisoners Fight U.S. Over Repatriation From Guantanamo Bay; Effort to Close Prison Hits Snag as Some Detainees Resist Transfer to Home Countries”: Jess Bravin has this article today in The Wall Street Journal.

“SCOTUSblog on camera: J. Harvie Wilkinson, III — Part six.” “SCOTUSblog” has posted this video online today, part six of an eight-part interview. Today’s installment features Judge Wilkinson’s tips on Thanksgiving leftovers and returning unwanted Hanukkah gifts.

“Long-shot legal challenges to health care law abound; President Obama’s law faces hurdles beyond the Supreme Court case on the birth control mandate”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Pa. Supreme Court poised to take on sentencing case”: In today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Paula Reed Ward has an article that begins, “The Allegheny County district attorney’s office will ask the state Supreme Court to determine what sentencing law should be followed for a defendant whose victim was injured in 1993 and died in 2007.”

Access online the Fall 2013 issue of Delaware Lawyer magazine, devoted to the topic of “Navigating the Appellate Courts: Advice from the Experts.” You can access the complete contents of the issue by clicking here.

David C. Frederick has an article headlined ” Essentials of Supreme Court Practice.”

An interview with the Justices serving on the Supreme Court of Delaware is headlined “Appellate Practice Roundtable with the Delaware Supreme Court.”

And I have an article about appellate practice at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

“What if Chief Justice George had taken federal appointment?” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has a blog post that begins, “Of all the revelations in former Chief Justice Ronald George’s newly published memoir (Chief: The Quest for Justice in California), one of the most intriguing is that he was offered a coveted judgeship on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1987, but turned it down because he had just been appointed to a state appellate court.”

“Despite Filibuster Limits, a Door Remains Open to Block Judge Nominees”: Charlie Savage will have this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

And online at The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin on Tuesday had a blog post titled “Blue-Slip Battle: The Senate Obstructionists’ Secret Weapon.”

“Supreme Court justices compete in rare contest; Sitting chief justice, challenger both have record favoring open government”: Today’s edition of The Greenville (S.C.) News contains this front page article.

“Court considering second major gun law; La. drug-gun statute latest to face review”: This front page article appears today in The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Lord Jonathan Sumption of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom recently delivered the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur on “The Limits of Law”: The UK Supreme Court posted the text of the lecture online today.

At his blog “Public law for everyone,” Dr. Mark Elliott has a post titled “Lord Sumption on the limits of the judicial role.”

Last month, The Star of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia previewed the event in an article headlined “British Supreme Court judge to speak at law lecture.”

“FISA court, which approves FBI, NSA surveillance, faces reform challenge from Oregon senators”: The Oregonian has published this lengthy article.

“Autocam lawyers are pleased even as Supreme Court won’t hear their challenge to Obamacare”: The Grand Rapids Press has this report.

“Laying down the Laws: human rights court shouldn’t have last word; Longest-serving appeal judge, Sir John Laws, questions Lord Bingham’s rule that Strasbourg is final authority on convention.” Joshua Rozenberg of The Guardian (UK) has this report on yesterday’s third lecture of the Hamlyn Lectures 2013.

The Guardian also has a second report on the speech headlined “Stop deferring to human rights court, says senior judge; Lord Justice Laws makes speech likely to find favour in Downing Street and among Eurosceptic Conservatives.”

“Christian guesthouse owners lose appeal over right to bar gay couples; Supreme court dismisses claim by Peter and Hazelmary Bull that right to manifest religious beliefs was breached”: The Guardian (UK) has this report.

And BBC News has a report headlined “Gay snub Cornish B&B owners lose Supreme Court appeal; The Christian owners of a guesthouse who were ordered to pay damages for turning away a gay couple have lost their UK Supreme Court fight.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom at this link. The court also issued this press summary of its ruling.

“Doesn’t Eat, Doesn’t Pray and Doesn’t Love”: Online at The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse has an essay that begins, “The question of whether for-profit companies can claim a religious identity, one that exempts them from obeying a generally applicable law, is fully worthy of the attention the Supreme Court is about to give it.”

“Russian Homosexual Asylum Claim Revived”: Pamela A. MacLean has this post at her “Trial Insider” blog reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Kozinski Trumped in Anti-SLAPP Suit”: Pamela A. MacLean has this post at her “Trial Insider” blog reporting on an order denying rehearing en banc, accompanied by a concurrence and a dissent, that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Lavabit Strikes Back at Feds in Key Internet Privacy Case”: Kevin Poulsen had this post last Friday at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog.

“Q&A: What Makes the D.C. Circuit So Special?” Todd Ruger has today posted this interview at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

In a concurring opinion issued today, Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton examines how the rule of lenity interacts with the Chevron doctrine: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued this decision today, in which Judge Sutton wrote both the opinion of the court and a concurring opinion.

Update: At “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Orin Kerr has a post titled “The Rule of Lenity Versus Chevron Deference.”

“Judge orders Sriracha hot sauce plant partly closed over odors; Irwindale sued the plant after residents complained about ill health caused by smells emanating from the plant”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“High Court Health-Law Case To Test Religious Rights”: Jess Bravin has this post today at WSJ.com’s “Washington Wire” blog.

“Why securities lawyers should give thanks to Native Americans”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“SCOTUSblog on camera: J. Harvie Wilkinson, III — Part five.” “SCOTUSblog” has posted this video online today, part five of an eight-part interview. Tomorrow’s installment promises to feature Judge Wilkinson’s tips on turkey carving.

In today’s mail: I received a certificate from the Green Bag that may be exchanged for a Justice John Blair bobblehead doll.

Given the strong secondary market for memorabilia pertaining to John Blair, Jr. — who apparently was confirmed by the U.S. Senate two days after being nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court — this bobblehead doll is sure to be avidly pursued by collectors.

“Constitution Check: Does the Citizen United ruling settle the Hobby Lobby case?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.