“Prof. Laurence Tribe guest-blogging this coming week”: Law professor Eugene Volokh has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Justices Scalia, Alito may have conflicts in BP claims case, websites say”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

“Missouri man had right to shred U.S. flag: U.S. appeals court.” Reuters has this report.

The Associated Press reports that “Federal appeals court upholds lower court decision to overturn Missouri flag burning law.”

And Courthouse News Service reports that “Flag Desecration Law Deemed Unconstitutional.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

“Amid Moves on Shield Laws, Journalist Tells of a 2011 Subpoena Fight”: Charlie Savage has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“On Death Row With Low I.Q., and New Hope for a Reprieve”: This front page article appears in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“How Justice Scalia could become the savior of public employee unions”: Business columnist Michael Hiltzik of The Los Angeles Times has this essay.

“‘There Have Been No Direct Threats, I’m Delighted to Say’: Meet the Bush-appointed judge who just brought marriage equality to Pennsylvania.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“EPA’s Approach on Carbon Limits to Spark Court Challenges; Agency to Rely on Little-Used Provision to Cut Power Plants’ Greenhouse Gases”: Brent Kendall and Alicia Mundy have this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“From ‘scraggly’ kid to Federal judge, Muncie native recalls his journey at Black Expo luncheon”: Today’s edition of The Star Press of Muncie, Indiana contains this front page article about new D.C. Circuit Judge Robert L. Wilkins.

“On gay marriage and other issues, judges, ‘Just the law, please'”: Michael McGough has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“In new SCOTUS brief, Argentina pledges to comply with U.S. courts”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

Adam Liptak recently spoke at the Stetson Law 2014 Commencement Ceremony: You can view the video via YouTube, starting at just past the 30-minute mark.

And in case you missed it, YouTube also has the video of “Mindy Kaling’s Speech at Harvard Law School Class Day 2014.”

“Ottawa confirms Quebec collaboration on Supreme Court”: The Toronto Globe and Mail has this report.

“What BP doesn’t want you to know about its oil spill claims appeal”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“Photos from a Botched Lethal Injection: An exclusive look at what happens when an execution goes badly.” Ben Crair has this article online today at The New Republic.

“Please Calculate Badly”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this essay online today at The Harvard Crimson.

“Obama makes his mark on the appeals courts”: Al Kamen of The Washington Post has this entry at his “In the Loop” blog.

“I.Q. Cutoff Ruling May Spare Some Inmates on Death Row”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

Yesterday at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Tony Mauro had a post titled “Supreme Court’s Use of ‘Intellectual Disability’ Wins Praise.”

And yesterday at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog,” Jacob Gershman had a post titled “Alito’s Statistics Lesson Misses the Mark in Death-Penalty Dissent, Experts Say.”

“BP challenges mandated payouts to thousands”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

“The Supreme Court Gives a Subtle Boost to Free Speech; A Secret Service ruling isn’t the setback it may seem”: Law professor Margo Schlanger has this essay online at The New Republic.

“BP asks U.S. Supreme Court justice to block Gulf spill payments”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Polar Vision”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Guantanamo lawyers spar over CIA ‘black site’ disclosures; Defense attorneys in the USS Cole trial want details of their client’s treatment while in CIA custody”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report.

“Abortion doctors restrictions take root in South”: The Associated Press has this report.

“The Supreme Court’s Empty Defense of the Intellectually Disabled: States ignored a prior ruling outlawing executions — and the justices let them get away with it.” Law professor David R. Dow has this essay online at The New Republic.

“U.S. Seeks to Censor More of Memo That Approved Drone Strike on American”: Charlie Savage will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Chilling Effect: How the attacks on a University of Virginia law professor are bad for academia, and all of us.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“After Halliburton, SCOTUS has another securities litigation puzzler”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“Battling Dissentals and Concurrals over Doffing and Donning on the 7th Circuit”: Josh Blackman has this thought-provoking post at his blog about an order denying rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today, and the opinions concurring in and dissenting from that order.

“9th Circuit rejects Brown’s prison oversight appeal”: Paige St. John of The Los Angeles Times has this news update.

Courthouse News Service has a report headlined “Procedural Slap Against Calif. in Prison-Reform Case.”

And at her “Trial Insider” blog, Pamela A. MacLean has a post titled “State Must Disclose Plan to End Court Oversight of Prisons.”

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

“Hatch concedes gay marriage will probably become legal in U.S.; Utah’s Republican senator doesn’t agree with same-sex marriage but believes the writing is on the wall”: The Salt Lake Tribune has this news update.

“Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns ban on expert testimony about eyewitness identification”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Pennsylvania criminal defendants won the right to offer expert testimony about the reliability of eyewitness identification in a decision Wednesday by a divided state Supreme Court that overturned a 20-year prohibition against it.”

Today’s 4-to-2 ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania consists of a majority opinion and two dissenting opinions (here and here).

A separate ruling that Pennsylvania’s highest court issued today gave state prosecutors more reason to celebrate. In that other case, the court ruled by a differently composed 4-to-2 margin that a defendant’s proposed expert testimony concerning the phenomenon of “false confessions” was not admissible. This ruling consisted of a majority opinion, two concurring opinions (here and here), and a dissenting opinion.

“Court upholds ‘First Amendment’ right to film police; Ruling is one of many nationwide supporting right to record police”: David Kravets of Ars Technica has this report today.

“Appeals courts denies BP’s request to keep claims payments on hold”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has a news update that begins, “A federal appeals court has denied BP’s request to keep business claims on hold while it appeals its Gulf of Mexico oil spill settlement to the Supreme Court. The oil giant said it will now ask the nation’s highest court to put a new stay on the payments.”

“Appellants * * * state that they have been harmed by the placement of ‘In God We Trust’ on currency”: Today; a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a per curiam opinion affirming the dismissal of this lawsuit in a case captioned Newdow v. Peterson.