“Judge agrees to delay modifying Orie Melvin’s sentence — for now”: Jason Cato of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has this news update.

And The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a news update headlined “Judge threatens to postpone entire sentence for former Pa. justice Orie Melvin.”

Access online the audio of yesterday’s Fifth Circuit oral argument in Abigail Fisher v. State of Texas: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has posted the audio of yesterday’s oral argument at this link (54.3 MB Windows Media Audio file).

U.S. Supreme Court grants writ of beardeas corpus: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices say inmate can keep beard while contesting policy.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Justices: Ark. inmate can grow beard, for now.”

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“U.S. argues for broad limit on teens’ gun rights”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Mining company requests Supreme Court review of EPA veto case”: Jeremy P. Jacobs and Manuel Quinone of Greenwire have this report.

“Sandusky Supreme Court appeal would have no merit, attorney general’s prosecutor argues”: The Centre Daily Times of State College, Pennsylvania has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Prosecutors argue against Jerry Sandusky appeal.”

“Cruz Attacks DOJ Advocacy at Federalist Society Meeting”: Jenna Greene has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“A Few Thoughts on the DOJ Brief in the Lavabit Case”: Orin Kerr has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Seventh Circuit affirms preliminary injunction prohibiting Cracker Barrel Old Country Store from selling food products to grocery stores under the name “Cracker Barrel,” which is a registered trademark of Kraft: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, written by Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner, at this link.

“Google prevails over authors in book-scanning U.S. lawsuit”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has a report that begins, “Google Inc on Thursday won dismissal of a lawsuit by authors who accused the Web search and media group of digitally copying millions of books for an online library without permission.”

I have posted online at this link today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Update: In other coverage, The New York Times reports that “Judge Sides With Google on Book Scanning Suit.”

And Bloomberg News reports that “Google Wins Dismissal of Suit Over Digital Books Project.”

“Settlement ends long legal fight on Mount Holly housing; Mount Holly Gardens residents charged bias”: This article appears today in The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports today that “Mount Holly Gardens discrimination dispute settled.”

In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Robbie Whelan and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have an article headlined “New Jersey Fair-Housing Suit Skirts the Supreme Court.”

At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Marcia Coyle has a post titled “Major Supreme Court Civil Rights Challenge Settles.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “New fair housing case settled.”

“Federal Panel Softens Tone on Judge It Removed From Stop-and-Frisk Case”: Benjamin Weiser and Joseph Goldstein have this article today in The New York Times.

The New York Daily News reports today that “‘Frisk’ judge Shira Scheindlin gets hushed by federal appeals panel; ‘No precedent suggesting that a district judge has standing before an appellate court to protest reassignment of a case,’ jurists say of bid to defend her handling of suit vs. the NYPD.”

Newsday reports today that “Judge Shira Scheindlin, in stop-and-frisk case, can’t challenge appeals panel ruling.”

The New York Post has an article headlined “Court rejects booted ‘stop-frisk’ judge’s request to tell her side,” an editorial titled “Scheindlin’s appeal gets shot down,” and an op-ed by Seth Lipsky titled “Shira slapped again.”

And at his “Hercules and the Umpire” blog, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf has a post titled “Not with a bang but a whimper.”

“Bring Me a Case”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Texas University’s Race Admissions Policy Is Debated Before a Federal Court”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

And The Horn reports that “UT affirmative action case continues in lower court.”

When the audio of yesterday’s Fifth Circuit oral argument becomes available online, I will link to it.

“Religious freedom and federal building security”: The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal has this blog post discussing a kirpan-related ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Lawyer Concedes Mistakes in Chevron Case”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

And Reuters reports that “Ecuador high court upholds Chevron verdict, halves fine.”