“After Supreme Court’s decision on prayers at meetings, what about crosses?” Robert Barnes will have this new installment of his “The High Court” column in Monday’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Defending the Open Internet”: This article focusing on law professor Tim Wu appears in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“The Polarized Court”: Adam Liptak has this article in the Sunday Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Belmont Law graduation draws Supreme Court Justice”: The Tennessean has this report.

“Oracle wins big appeals court ruling against Google in software copyright case”: This article appeared in yesterday’s edition of The San Jose Mercury News.

The Guardian (UK) reports that “Google faces fresh trial over Android copyright after 2012 ruling struck down; Oracle wins appeal in row over Java APIs reignited after judge struck down 2012 ruling stating APIs could not be copyrighted.”

David Kravets of Ars Technica reports that “Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules; Code, structure, sequence, and API organization entitled to copyright protection.”

Seth Rosenblatt of c|net reports that “Court sides with Oracle over Android in Java patent appeal; Oracle wins big in protracted legal fight over use of Java APIs in Android, as appeals court rejects pro-Google ruling.”

Online at Vox, Timothy B. Lee reports that “The court that created the patent troll mess is screwing up copyright too.”

At Wired.com’s “Enterprise” blog, Robert McMillan has a post titled “Why Oracle’s Copyright Victory Over Google Is Bad News for Everyone.”

Russell Brandom of The Verge reports that “Federal court overturns Google v. Oracle decision, setting disastrous precedent.”

And at Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Deeplinks” blog, Corynne McSherry has a post titled “Dangerous Decision in Oracle v. Google: Federal Circuit Reverses Sensible Lower Court Ruling on APIs.”

My earlier coverage of Friday’s Federal Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“Supreme Court Prayer Ruling Shows Shift in Church-State Barriers; Decision Could Accelerate Trend of Court’s Interest in Protecting Religious Expression”: Jess Bravin has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

And yesterday at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog,” Bravin had a post titled “State Churches? Justice Clarence Thomas Hears the Call.”

“Court: Privacy Outweighs Public Interest in Dispute Over Cell Tracking Records.” At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Zoe Tillman has this post reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued yesterday.

And The Associated Press reports that “Court sides with US in cell-tracking records case.”

“Same-sex marriage opponents invoke Justice Kennedy”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“The Confrontation Clause — again, and again”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“At issue in this case is a law passed by the government of Puerto Rico to obtain information about the owners of prepaid cell phones.” So begins a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued yesterday.

“‘Under God’ will remain in pledge, Mass. SJC rules”: John R. Ellement of The Boston Globe has a news update that begins, “The state’s highest court today rejected the proposition that the phrase ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance violated the religious beliefs and equal rights of an atheist family with children in the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Massachusetts: Pledge of Allegiance not religious.”

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

“Appeals court upholds stronger soot standard”: Pete Yost of The Associated Press has this report.

And Bloomberg News reports that “Obama Scores Third Court Victory in Air Pollution Fight.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“Oracle wins copyright ruling against Google over Android”: Dan Levine and Diane Bartz of Reuters have this report.

And Bloomberg News reports that “Oracle Can Pursue Claims Google Copied Java, Court Says.”

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

“Ruling allows judge candidates more freedom during campaign season”: Howard Fischer of The East Valley Tribune has a news update that begins, “Arizonans who want to get elected as judges cannot be subject to the same campaign rules and restrictions that apply to those already on the bench, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Court rejects rules on Arizona judicial candidates.”

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.

“There’s a Legal War Over the Definition of Rape: And Tiger Mom’s husband has waded right into it.” Nora Caplan-Bricker has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Obamacare challenges falling flat in federal courts”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

And Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau reports that “Judges seem skeptical over latest challenge to health care law.”

“Supreme Court’s Next Potential Religion Case: Public School Graduation at Church.” Mark Walsh has this post yesterday at the “School Law” blog of Education Week.

“Federal judge stops Doe probe again, calls appeal frivolous”: Patrick Marley, Daniel Bice, and Jason Stein have this front page article in today’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“How ‘Company Doe’ — now revealed as ErgoBaby — triggered 1st Amendment case”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“Pamela Harris Nominated to Fourth Circuit”: Todd Ruger has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Yesterday, the White House issued a news release titled “President Obama Nominates Pamela Harris to Serve on the United States Court of Appeals.”

“In U.S., when high-tech meets high court, high jinks ensue”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report today.

“New legal battle opens over Obamacare and contraceptives”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update that begins, “Even as the Supreme Court weighs one challenge to the Obama administration’s rule that female employees be offered health plans that include a full range of contraceptives, lawyers for several prominent Catholic groups are seeking to set up a potential Round 2 in the fight.”

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit via this link (33.4 MB mp3 audio file).

“Conservative group wants Obamacare declared a tax; Lawsuit based on ‘Origination Clause'”: Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has this news update.

Earlier, Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor previewed the case, argued today at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in an article headlined “New bid to topple Obamacare in court: Did Harry Reid bend the rules? Senate majority leader Harry Reid violated the Constitution in his maneuverings to pass Obamacare, a conservative legal fund argues; The case will go before a federal panel of judges Thursday.”

You can access the audio of today’s D.C. Circuit oral argument via this link (17.2 MB mp3 audio file).

“‘Father of lethal injection’ talks about history, his legacy to Oklahoma; The doctor who came up with the method talks about his legacy in Oklahoma and the U.S.” This front page article appears today in The Tulsa World. The newspaper also has an update headlined “Oklahoma death row inmate granted six-month execution stay.”

In related coverage, today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment titled “The Executioner’s Lament.”

And online at Slate, Emily Bazelon has a jurisprudence essay titled “Two Americas: In much of the country, the death penalty is disappearing; In the South, it lives on.”

“Wiretap claims fail against Facebook, Zynga in disclosure lawsuit”: Dan Levine of Reuters has this report.

And at her “Trial Insider” blog, Pamela A. MacLean has a post titled “Facebook, Zynga Wiretap Claims Fail.”

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

Meanwhile, in related coverage, Bloomberg News has an article headlined “Facebook, Zynga Fraud Claim Reinstated by Appeals Court” reporting on a separate non-precedential ruling that the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Pennsylvania governor won’t appeal voter ID ruling”: The Associated Press has this report.

“It May Already Be Too Late to Confirm a Replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg”: Simon Lazarus and Tom Donnelly have this essay online today at The New Republic.

“Antonin Scalia Emerges As Fighter For Fourth Amendment Privacy Rights”: Sahil Kapur of TPM DC has this report today.

“Pa. Supreme Court to decide Msgr. Lynn’s case”: Joseph A. Slobodzian of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update that begins, “Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to resolve the contested key legal theory underpinning the landmark 2012 prosecution of the first Catholic Church official charged in the clergy child sex-abuse scandal.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Church official’s case headed to state high court.”

You can access today’s order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania granting allowance of appeal at this link.

“Justice Samuel Alito to speak at Belmont Law’s commencement”: The Tennessean has this report.

“Schuette’s same-sex marriage brief: Let affirmative action ruling guide this case.” The Detroit Free Press has this report today.

“‘Improper photography’ in Texas — oral argument in Ex parte Thompson, before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals”: Eugene Volokh has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Ergobaby Revealed as ‘Company Doe'”: Jacob Gershman has this post today at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”

“Plea for a new church-state ruling”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

In posts today from Tony Mauro at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.” Tony today has posts titled “New Study Revisits Scalia-Posner Feud” and “Coalition Urges Easier Access to Justices’ Financial Forms.”

Bryan A. Garner today provided this link to the study referenced in Tony’s first post noted above.