“Judge tosses Oklahoma gay-marriage amendment; The ruling, calling the ban a violation of the 14th Amendment, mirrors Utah’s in a number of ways”: Brooke Adams of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

And The Deseret News reports that “Oklahoma, Utah same-sex marriage rulings could turn up heat on Supreme Court” and “Utah attorney general to name outside counsel for same-sex marriage appeal.”

In jurisprudence essays available online at Slate: Emily Bazelon has an essay titled “You Do Not Have the Right to Be Left Alone; Why the Supreme Court will strike down the Massachusetts law that keeps abortion opponents back from clinic entrances.”

And Dahlia Lithwick has an essay titled “Do We Have the Right to Choose How We Talk About the Right to Choose? Three fascinating new court cases about abortion, contraception, and, also speech.”

“Why Have Liberals Given Up on a Crucial Supreme Court Case?” Simon Lazarus has this essay online today at The New Republic.

Access online the redesigned web site of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: At this link.