“State Supreme Court hears arguments on controversial vanity plate”: This article appears today in The Concord (N.H.) Monitor.

Lynne Tuohy of The Associated Press reports that “NH man fights denial of ‘COPSLIE’ vanity plate.”

And Reuters reports that “New Hampshire man takes vanity plate debate to states top court.”

At this web page, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire provides links to access the audio and video of yesterday’s oral arguments.

“Police need judge’s specific permission to search computers, Supreme Court rules”: Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail has a news update that begins, “Police entering a home with a search warrant have no right to examine any computers they find unless a judge has given them specific permission, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled unanimously.”

And The Canadian Press reports that “Court allows computer, phone evidence in B.C. grow-op case; Police seized two computers and a cellphone in the raid on Thanh Long Vu’s home.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link.

“Omar Khadr set to appeal war-crime convictions”: The Toronto Globe and Mail has this news update.

“Alleged subway ‘Peeping Mike’ appeals before Massachusetts SJC; Lawyer argues 1st Amendment protects Andover man while taking pictures up women’s skirts”: The Eagle-Tribune of North Andover has this article reporting on a case argued Monday before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. You can access the video of the oral argument via this link.

Other coverage of the oral argument is available from The New York Daily News and the “Jezebel” blog.

“Obama nominates Ronnie White to federal judgeship he was once denied”: Bill Lambrecht of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has this news update.

“Fort Lauderdale’s Rosenbaum nominated to federal appeals court”: Jay Weaver of The Miami Herald has this news update.

Earlier today, the White House issued a news release headlined “President Obama Nominates Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum to Serve on the United States Court of Appeals.” You can access the nominee’s current federal judicial center biography at this link.

“Rehearing Denial Spurs Harrowing Warning”: Courthouse News Service has a report that begins, “A rift in the 9th Circuit over ‘causal nexus’ review may not be fixed in time to save the life of a man on death row in Arizona, but it must be fixed, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and a dozen other judges warned Thursday.”

You can access at this link the dissent in which twelve judges serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit joined today.

“Michigan Supreme Court to decide whether juveniles serving mandatory life sentences deserve shot at freedom”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Antonin Scalia Just Cracked the Door to State-Sanctioned Prayer; Religious supremacy may be on the rise at the Supreme Court”: Law professor Jeffrey Rosen has this essay online today at The New Republic.

And on Tuesday, The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle posted online an article headlined “The women behind local Supreme Court case: The case brought by two women pits a 239-year-old government practice against the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.”

In news pertaining to the Supreme Court of Florida: The Associated Press reports that “Fla. Supreme Court settles lesbian custody battle.” You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of Florida’s highest court at this link. Update: In other coverage, Bloomberg News reports that “Florida Court Rules Lesbian Egg Donor Has Parental Rights.”

And in other news, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports today that “Red-lights camera challenge goes to Supreme Court; Cases concern tickets issued in Orlando and Aventura.”

In posts of interest at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.” Tony Mauro has a post titled “First Amendment Trailblazers Celebrated at Supreme Court.”

And Todd Ruger has a post titled “Senate Sets Second Round in D.C. Circuit Fight.”

“U.S. justices weigh LCD-screen price-fixing case”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has a report that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday as it considered a dispute between states and electronics manufacturers over whether restitution claims based on alleged price-fixing in the market for liquid crystal display panels should be heard in state or federal court.”

You can access at this link the transcript of yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Mississippi, Inc. ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics Corp., No. 12-1036.

“How I Write: Richard Posner; America’s most cited legal scholar, Judge Richard Posner, talks about his compulsive writing, what’s guaranteed to make him laugh, and his passion for cats.” Online today at The Daily Beast, Noah Charney has this interview with Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner.

Nearly ten years ago, Judge Posner was a participant in this blog’s “20 questions for the appellate judge” feature. You can access that interview at this link.

“Council delays vote to settle Mount Holly Gardens lawsuit”: Today’s edition of The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill, New Jersey contains this article.

Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that “Settlement vote on Mount Holly Gardens case is tabled.”

And online at The Newark Star-Ledger, Ilya Shapiro and Gabriel Latner have an op-ed titled “The feds are running from a New Jersey fight over race, housing.”

“History an uncertain guide, says retired Supreme Court justice”: This article appears today in The Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald.

You can access at this link the remarks that retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens prepared for delivery yesterday at the University of Georgia Law Review Symposium.

“At Supreme Court hearing, passions over religion and its rules”: Joan Biskupic of Reuters has a news analysis that begins, “When the U.S. Supreme Court talks about religion, all hell breaks loose.”

“Supreme Court weighs whether praying before governing is legal”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau has this report.

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Public prayer: why devil worshipers came up in Supreme Court arguments; Supreme Court arguments over whether public prayer at a town board meeting violates the separation of church and state included a failed attempt to formulate a prayer acceptable to all beliefs.”

On this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court Examines Anew Prayer At Government Functions.”

This evening’s broadcast of The PBS NewsHour included a segment titled “Supreme Court tackles the separation of church and state in public prayer case” featuring Marcia Coyle.

Online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a Supreme Court dispatch titled “Say a Prayer for the Supreme Court: Can the justices settle the world’s religious differences? Not a chance in hell.”

At Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “The Founders Prayed, Why Can’t the City Council?”

At the “Taking Note” blog of The New York Times, Jesse Wegman has a post titled “Sympathy for the Devil Worshipers?”

And at the blog “Litigator Rex,” L.J. Puleo has a post titled “Testing the Hypothesis, Some Random Thoughts on Town of Greece v. Galloway — the first 100 words.”

“Court cool to Stephen Glass’ bid to practice law”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this news update.

Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Stephen Glass finds tough audience at California Supreme Court.”

And at her “Trial Insider” blog, Pamela A. MacLean has a post titled “Law License Looks Unlikely for Stephen Glass.”

You can access the video of today’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court of California via this link.

“Judge tossed from ‘stop-and-frisk’ wants day in court”: The New York Post has this news update.

The New York Daily News has an update headlined “Stop-and-frisk judge fighting back after being removed from controversial NYPD policing case; Manhattan Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin was ordered removed from the landmark stop-and-frisk case by an appeals court but now she has asked the court to review that decision.”

Newsday has an update headlined “Judge Shira Scheindlin seeks hearing on stop-and-frisk ruling.”

The Associated Press reports that “Ousted stop-frisk judge’s lawyer fights order.”

And Reuters reports that “Judge asks to be put back on New York ‘stop-and-frisk’ case.”

Joe Palazzolo of The Wall Street Journal has posted online at this link a copy of U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin‘s Request for Leave to File Motion to Address Order of Disqualification.

“Harry Reid Opens Door To Nuking The Filibuster For Judges”: Sahil Kapur of TPM DC has this report today.

Columnist Harold Meyerson of The Washington Post has an op-ed titled “A good case against the filibuster.”

And columnist Eric Zorn of The Chicago Tribune has a blog post titled “Pack of lies: How the GOP’s phony ‘court packing’ accusation could backfire.”

“Pennsylvania Superior Court stays letter-writing part of Joan Orie Melvin’s sentence”: Paula Reed Ward of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has this news update.

Adam Brandolph of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review also has a related news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Convicted Pa. judge wins appeal of apology letters.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania at this link.

“Appeals Court Rejects Claim Against Paramount Over Ownership of ‘Rules of Engagement'”: Variety has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

Update: In other coverage, at her “Trial insider” blog, Pamela A. MacLean has a post titled “Court’s ‘Rules of Engagement’ on Copyright Claim.”

“Appeals court strikes blow against OC gang order”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Supreme Court hears case on N.Y. town’s practice of opening meetings with a prayer”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this news update.

Tim Phelps of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Dispute over prayer at meetings confounds Supreme Court.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices struggle with New York town prayer dispute.”

Josh Gerstein of Politico.com reports that “Justices struggle with church-state case.”

And at the “School Law” blog of Education Week, Mark Walsh has a post titled “Supreme Court Justices Weigh Prayers at Municipal Meetings.”

“Disgraced ex-journalist’s bid for lawyer license stumbles in California Supreme Court”: Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News has this update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Disgraced ex-journo fights for Calif. law license.”

“Circuit Split Watch: Attorney’s Fees in Prisoner Litigation.” Michelle Olsen has this post today at her “Appellate Daily” blog.

“Supreme Court hears case on legislative prayer”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

Update: In other coverage, Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Legislative Prayer Scrutinized by U.S. Supreme Court Justices.”

Adam Liptak of The New York Times has a news update headlined “Supreme Court Justices Consider New York Town’s Prayer Practice.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Justices appear wary of regulating legislative prayer; Court’s decision, expected in the spring, could affect government practices from the halls of Congress to the nation’s smallest towns and villages.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument recap: Marsh‘s demise or its renewal?”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Town of Greece v. Galloway, No. 12-696.

“The Nazi Anatomists: How the corpses of Hitler’s victims are still haunting modern science — and American abortion politics.” Emily Bazelon has this lengthy article online today at Slate.

“Supreme Court Case Puts Public Prayer Back In The Spotlight”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“Former California chief justice looks back on his days on the bench; In a new oral history, Ronald M. George discusses the challenges of persuading lawmakers to fund courts, disagreements with colleagues and the process of ruling on gay marriage”: Maura Dolan has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Castille wins another term on Pa. Supreme Court”: The Philadelphia Inquirer contains this article today.

Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has an article headlined “Stabile wins Superior Court race; four veteran appeals court judges retained; Chief Justice Castille overcomes scandal to win third term; three other justices retained.”

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that “Republican Stabile wins Superior Court seat.”

The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania reports that “Vic Stabile wins Pa. Superior Court race.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Pa. voters send GOP’s Stabile to Superior Court, Dems sweep other top offices.”

“U.S. ‘overreaching’ in piracy case against Somali, judge says; Ali Mohamed Ali, a Somali who helped win release of a ship and crew for ransom but played no role in seizing the vessel, is charged with piracy by the U.S.; The trial judge says that goes too far”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Local domestic dispute is heard by U.S. Supreme Court”: Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an article that begins, “Flabbergasted was the word U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. used Tuesday to describe his reaction to federal prosecutors’ decision to classify as a chemical-weapons attack a Lansdale woman’s attempt to poison her romantic rival.”

Update: In other coverage, Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Supreme Court skeptical about use of chemical weapons treaty in charging wife; The Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday involving the prosecution of a Pennsylvania microbiologist who used toxic chemicals to try to settle a personal score. Federal prosecutors charged the woman with using ‘chemical weapons.'”

“Disgraced ex-journo fights for Calif. law license”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Proposed Accord Would End Supreme Court Housing-Bias Case”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

Several days ago, The Philadelphia Inquirer published an article headlined “Tentative settlement in Mount Holly Gardens case.”

And at MSNBC.com, Adam Serwer has a lengthy article headlined “Bulldozing homes and civil rights.”