“The DOJ’s ‘New York Times problem’ with Assange”: Politico.com has this blog post.

“Appeals court considers whether Justice Department memo should be made public”: The Washington Post has an article that begins, “A federal appeals court on Tuesday considered whether the Justice Department must make public a legal opinion on the scope of the FBI’s surveillance authority.”

And Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Court hears fight over secret Justice Department legal opinion.”

“Infamous Reporter Stephen Glass Vies For Bar Admission”: This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“Supreme Court contraception mandate case sparks fierce debate; Women’s rights advocates worry that the Supreme Court will lift the mandate on employers to provide workers with a government-set level of health insurance; Religious rights activists want that mandate gone”: Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has this report.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that “High court to hear appeal of birth control ruling.”

And on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court Takes Challenge To Obamacare Contraceptive Rule.”

“Corporations Are People, the Biblical Sequel: The Supreme Court will decide whether companies don’t have to cover contraception because they have religious beliefs.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And law professors Micah Schwartzman and Nelson Tebbe have a jurisprudence essay titled “Obamacare and Religion and Arguing off the Wall: What the New York Times and the courts are missing in the birth control mandate fight.”

“Indiana Abortion Law Affecting One Clinic Is Blocked”: Bloomberg News has this report.

And The Indianapolis Star reports that “Federal judge blocks Indiana chemical abortion law.”

“The Indiana Law Blog” has this post linking to today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

“U.S. trial ends over Ecuador pollution judgment against Chevron”: Reuters has this report.

“D.C. Circuit knows satire when it sees it, tosses ‘birther’ case vs Esquire”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

“U.S. high court to chart fate of inherited IRAs in bankruptcy”: Reuters has this report.

“The Judge Who Shaped Our Law”: Lincoln Caplan has this review (pass-through link) of “Reason and Imagination: The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand: 1897-1961” in the December 5, 2013 issue of The New York Review of Books.

“U.S. Appeals Court upholds Marion County smoking ban”: The Indianapolis Star has this article reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued yesterday.

“Chevron Claims Trial Showed Proof of Fraud in Ecuador”: Bloomberg News has this report on the start of closing arguments in the case.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court has posted the Order List at this link. The Court granted review in four cases, two of which will were combined into a single oral argument.

In early news coverage, Adam Liptak of The New York Times reports that “Justices Take Companies’ Cases Challenging Contraception Rule.”

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court to review contraceptive coverage mandate.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court to hear Obamacare challenge over birth control drugs.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Justices will hear contraception challenge to Obamacare; Religious cases are among dozens challenging the health care law’s mandate that insurance plans offer free coverage of contraceptives.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “High Court to Review Health Law’s Contraception Mandate.”

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau reports that “Supreme Court to hear ‘Obamacare’ contraceptive mandate challenge.”

The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court to decide Obamacare birth control mandate.”

Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman reports that “U.S. Supreme Court takes Hobby Lobby Case.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court will take up new health law dispute.” The AP also reports that “Justices to look at claims over Bush-era protest.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Health Law’s Birth-Control Rule Gets Supreme Court Review” and “Secret Service Case Gets Top Court Review in Speech Clash.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court agrees to hear Obamacare contraception cases” and “Supreme Court agrees to review presidential protest case.”

Politico.com reports that “Supreme Court agrees to hear cases on contraceptive mandate.” And Josh Gerstein has a blog post titled “SCOTUS to weigh presidential visit protests.”

Sahil Kapur of TPM DC reports that “Liberals Worry As Supreme Court Takes Up Birth Control Mandate.”

The Hill has a blog post titled “High court takes up challenge to O-Care birth control mandate.”

At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Tony Mauro has a post titled “Supreme Court Will Review Contraceptive Coverage in Health Care Law.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court to rule on birth-control mandate.”

“SCOTUSblog on camera: J. Harvie Wilkinson, III — Part four.” “SCOTUSblog” has posted this video online today, part four of an eight-part interview. Presumably in part eight, if not sooner, the interview’s relevance to the subject of the U.S. Supreme Court will be revealed.

“Supreme Court poised to take up Obamacare contraception case”: Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

And at “The Note” blog of ABC News, Ariane de Vogue has a post titled “Supreme Court May Review Obamacare Contraception Mandate.”