“Appeals court to review approval of BP settlement”: The Associated Press has this report.

“A Prayer in the Town Hall”: Monday’s edition of The New York Times will contain this editorial.

“The Appearance of Impartiality”: This “Room for Debate” discussion appears online tonight at The New York Times.

“Disgraced ex-journalist Stephen Glass seeks right to be California lawyer”: Howard Mintz will have this article in Monday’s edition of The San Jose Mercury News.

“Justices weigh chemical weapons case of a woman scorned; A lurid affair; An act of vengeance; Chemical weapons; Video surveillance: This case has it all.” Richard Wolf will have this article in Monday’s edition of USA Today.

“Supreme Court to hear case on separating church and state; Justices will consider whether to let city councils open their meetings with explicitly Christian prayers”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

And today’s edition of The Arizona Republic contains an article headlined “Prayer before public meetings divisive topic among Arizonans; U.S. Supreme Court to weigh issue this week.”

“Race-Based Lawyering Misfires at Supreme Court”: Kenneth Jost has this post today at his blog, “Jost On Justice.”

“Does Supreme Court case have a prayer? Stay tuned.” Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau has this report today.

“Carol Bond case showcases government run amok”: Columnist George F. Will of The Washington Post has this op-ed.

“Judge Karen Williams of Orangeburg dies; Orangeburg native made history as 1st woman on U.S. 4th Circuit Court”: This front page article appears today in The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg, South Carolina.

And today’s edition of The State of Columbia, South Carolina contains an article headlined “Former federal judge Karen Williams dies; was a native of Orangeburg.”

As noted in posts from July 2009 that you can access here and here, then-Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Karen J. Williams took early retirement from her judicial position due to early-onset Alzheimers.

“A cheap shot”: Today at his blog, “Hercules and the Umpire,” Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf has a post that begins, “Yesterday, I asked: What do you think about the Second Circuit’s removal of Judge Shira Scheindlin? Today, I will provide the short version of my views.”

Lyle Denniston of “SCOTUSblog” is reporting: He has posts titled “Argument preview: Prayer’s role in government” and “U.S. newly defends race as college plus factor.”