“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor talks about her memoir at Seton Hall”: The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey has this report.

“NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune turns over information under court order”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this news update.

“Utah and same-sex marriage: Issues on appeal.” Lyle Denniston has this post tonight at “SCOTUSblog.”

“CIA’s use of harsh interrogation went beyond legal authority, Senate report says”: Ali Watkins, Jonathan S. Landay, and Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Washington Bureau today have a report that begins, “A still-secret Senate Intelligence Committee report calls into question the legal foundation of the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists, a finding that challenges the key defense on which the agency and the Bush administration relied in arguing that the methods didn’t constitute torture.”

“U.S. Court Seems Split on Utah Gay Marriage Ban”: Jack Healy will have this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Williams v. Johnson: A neglected cert petition on a very troubling issue.” Will Baude has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

My original post noting the Ninth Circuit’s ruling can be accessed here.

“We hold that the Sixth Amendment requires reasonable accommodations for hearing-impaired criminal defendants during judicial proceedings and that such accommodations must be commensurate with the severity of the hearing impairment.” So ruled a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a decision issued today.

“SCOTUSblog on camera: Orin Kerr — Part three.” Perhaps it’s time to start feeling sad, as only two parts of this interview remain after today’s installment.

Access online the audio of today’s oral argument of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Kitchen v. Herbert, No. 13-4178: Via this link (11.1MB mp3 audio file).

“Appeals court appears split on Utah’s same-sex marriage case”: Brooke Adams and Marissa Lang of The Salt Lake Tribune have this news update.

Kirk Mitchell of The Denver Post has a news update headlined “10th Circuit arguments on gay marriage ban focus on family and fairness.”

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Appeals court hears arguments on same-sex marriage ban.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Appeals court appears divided on same-sex marriage.”

The Associated Press reports that “Judges hearing gay marriage case appear divided.”

Joan Biskupic of Reuters reports that “Appeals court hears case testing gay-marriage rights.”

Joel Rosenblatt and Andrew Harris of Bloomberg News report that “Utah Gay-Marriage Ban Questioned by U.S. Appellate Judges.”

And Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed reports that “Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments Over Utah’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban; The three judges hearing the case heard more than an hour of arguments, with two of them leaning toward striking down the state’s ban.”

“U.S. legal fight over same-sex marriages enters new round”: Joan Biskupic of Reuters has this report.

Andrew Harris and Joel Rosenblatt of Bloomberg News report that “Utah Gay-Marriage Appeal Seen as Supreme Court Rehearsal.”

And Jack Healy of The New York Times has a news update headlined “Federal Court to Consider Utah Ban on Same-Sex Marriage.”

“All eyes focused on the 10th Circuit Court”: Dennis Romboy of The Deseret News has this report.

And Marissa Lang of The Salt Lake Tribune has an article headlined “Rainbow rally calls for equality on eve of same-sex marriage hearing; 10th Circuit Court will hear Utah case Thursday.”

Today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is scheduled to begin at noon eastern time in Denver.