“SCOTUSblog will be shopping for a buyer next year, its founder confirms”: Debra Cassens Weiss has this post at the “Law News Now” blog of ABA Journal.

“Harvard Law outsider became Tea Party hero; In liberal bastion, Ted Cruz played a familiar role”: Sunday’s edition of The Boston Globe contained this article.

“Case a test for shielding sources”: This front page article appears today in The Times Union of Albany, New York.

Update: In other coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Fox reporter’s lawyers seek to keep sources secret.”

“Court nominees: Battleground for partisan politics.” Politico.com has this report.

And in this week’s issue of The National Law Journal, U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) has an essay titled “Power Grab In Judicial Nominations: Numbers don’t justify more judicial appointments, so why is Obama pushing? Politics, of course.”

“Deja Vu at Jones Day: Firm Hires Six More Supreme Court Clerks.” Tony Mauro has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.” Maybe next the law firm will purchase “SCOTUSblog”?

“Former Chief Justice George is not a fan of SCOTUS election law jurisprudence”: David Ettinger has this post at the “At the Lectern” blog.

“Iowa case could have big effect on drug-death convictions”: Yesterday’s edition of The Des Moines Register contained this front page article.

And today at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument preview: Crime and death’s cause.”

“Litigants face long road to Indiana Supreme Court”: This article appears today in The Times of Munster, Indiana.

“Sometimes, you don’t want your case to make it to the Supreme Court”: In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has this new installment of his “The High Court” column.

“Ousted stop-frisk judge’s lawyer slams NYC motion”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Supreme Court to Take Up Challenges to Union Practices”: Steven Greenhouse will have this article in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Toronto lawyer takes aim at Supreme Court choice”: The Canadian Press has a report that begins, “Rocco Galati appears to revel in kicking Goliath in the shins. The Toronto lawyer is teaming up with the Constitutional Rights Centre Inc., to challenge the legality of the Prime Minister’s latest appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada.”

“Handicapping the Possible Purchasers of SCOTUSblog”: Law professor Kyle Graham has this post today at his blog, “noncuratlex.com.”

“Stop-and-frisk case judge makes new bid to end legal fight”: Josh Gerstein has this blog post today at Politico.com.

“Holding Court: Richard A. Posner’s ‘Reflections on Judging.'” In today’s edition of The New York Times, law professor Kenji Yoshino has this review of Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner‘s new book in the Sunday Book Review section.

“Voter ID laws challenged in state, federal court as discriminatory”: UPI has this report.

“Bond v United States: The Supreme Court Should Not Let Bad Facts Make Bad Law.” John Bellinger had this post Friday at the “Lawfare” blog.

“New York City Asks Court to Vacate Rulings on Stop-and-Frisk Tactic”: Benjamin Weiser and Joseph Goldstein have this article today in The New York Times.

The Associated Press reports that “NYC moves to vacate judge’s stop-frisk decisions.”

And Bloomberg News reports that “New York City Seeks to Have Stop-Frisk Order Thrown Out.”

“Taking case before U.S. Supreme Court takes lots of work”: This article appears today in The Des Moines Register.

“U.S. Supreme Court to consider another Oklahoma abortion case; After rejecting Oklahoma’s appeal in a case involving drug-induced abortions, the nation’s high court might review a state law requiring ultrasound examination”: Chris Casteel has this article today in The Oklahoman.

“Supreme Court ruling could give man, sentenced to life without parole as juvenile, another chance”: This article appears today in The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi.

“Act 10 union law goes before state Supreme Court Monday”: Patrick Marley has this article today in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: ‘Amazon tax’ headed for the justices?” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

“The Nominee: A Political and Spiritual Journey.” Fifth Circuit Judge Leslie H. Southwick has published this memoir, which the book’s publisher describes as “A firsthand account of the murky, faithstraining processes by which federal judges are confirmed.”

Although a review copy of the book has yet to arrive at “How Appealing” headquarters, some of the book’s contents can be accessed online via Google Books.

“Legal blog seeks recognition from high court”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

According to the article, “Next year, Goldstein said he intends to sell SCOTUSblog. To that end, he wants a formal press credential for Denniston, whose pass is courtesy of a Boston public radio station for which he works only rarely, and maybe even Howe. The formal recognition he seeks is part of a series of moves aimed at making SCOTUSblog more attractive to prospective buyers.”

Update: From the department of “now you see it, now you don’t,” the passage from the article quoted immediately above has been cut from the article’s current version. However, the original version of the article can still be accessed at various places online, including here.

Challenge to my client’s $8 million appellate victory in pooled health trust matter reached a favorable conclusion yesterday when the Pa. Supreme Court denied the opposing parties’ request for further review: Yesterday’s orders of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania denying the petition for allowance of appeal can be accessed here and here. I have posted my client’s brief in opposition to the petition for allowance of appeal at this link.

The Pa. Commonwealth Court‘s earlier unanimous en banc ruling in favor of my client can be accessed here. My post collecting news coverage of the ruling, published on the day after it originally issued, appears at this link. And I previously linked here both to my client’s appellate briefs and the trial court’s adverse ruling.

“Label Updates May Be Allowed for Generics”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an article that begins, “The Food and Drug Administration proposed a rule on Friday that would permit generic drug makers to update their labels if they received information about potential safety problems. The move puts the companies on equal footing with brand-name manufacturers, but it also opens the door to lawsuits against them for the first time since the Supreme Court barred such cases two years ago.”

You can view the text of the proposed rule at this link.

“Veterans feel a debt toward an old warhorse of a judge; Judge Harry Pregerson, wounded at Okinawa, was the force behind U.S. VETS, which has rescued thousands of formerly homeless vets”: Columnist Steve Lopez will have this essay in tomorrow’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“Executions Stall as States Seek Different Drugs”: This front page article appears today in The New York Times.

“Appeals Court Blocks Health Law’s Contraception Requirement”: Joe Palazzolo of The Wall Street Journal has a news update that begins, “A federal appeals court on Friday blocked a provision of the Obama administration’s health-care law requiring employers to provide birth-control coverage in employee insurance, ruling that it imposed a ‘substantial burden’ on religious rights of two Midwestern companies.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

Update: In other coverage, Bloomberg News reports that “Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate Blocked by Appeals Court.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Broad bar to birth-control mandate.”

“FDA seeks faster warning updates for generic drugs”: The Associated Press has this report.

Programming note: This afternoon, I have a meeting out of the office with co-counsel on a pending appeal. Additional posts will appear here this evening.

“Strine Seeks Top Delaware Supreme Court Post; Court Is Final Voice on State’s Business Laws, the Most Influential in the Country”: On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal posted this article online.

You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

“Solomonic ruling tests state Supreme Court”: Paul Flemming of The Tallahassee Democrat has this essay discussing a ruling that the Supreme Court of Florida issued yesterday. My earlier coverage of that ruling can be accessed here.

“A prayer paradox at the Supreme Court”: Michael McGough has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.