“Schmidt notifies 10th U.S. Circuit appeals court of gay marriage challenge; Notice says attorney general will challenge ‘any and all appealable issues'”: The Topeka Capital-Journal has this news update.

“Abortion-Rights Advocates Preparing for a New Surge of Federal and State Attacks”: Erik Eckholm will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Abortion waiting period likely with Amendment 1 passage”: The Tennessean has this news update.

“Personhood’s third time on Colorado ballot another loss”: The Denver Post has this report.

Politico.com reports that “Personhood movement loses both state initiatives.”

And Vox reports that “Abortion opponents have lost 5 out of 5 personhood votes.”

“Rick Scott Won’t Get to Stack Florida Supreme Court; Floridians defeated a proposed constitutional change that would have let governors name a new judge once the retirement date of the outgoing judge is known”: Governing.com has this report.

And WFSU reports that “Supreme Court Appointments To Stay With Incoming Governor After Amendment 3 Fails.”

“Wheat fends off VanDyke; Rice defeats Herbert”: The Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune has this report.

The Billings Gazette reports that “Wheat, Rice win easy victories in bids for Supreme Court.”

And The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that “Wheat, Rice win re-election to Montana Supreme Court.”

“Chief Justice Roberts Wishes Magna Carta an Early Happy 800th Birthday”: Jess Bravin has this post at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”

“Illinois Supreme Court Justice Karmeier appears to survive $1M campaign to unseat him”: The Associated Press has this report.
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And The Belleville News-Democrat reports that “Vote totals close on Karmeier’s return to Supreme Court.”

“State Supreme Court justices stave off ousting campaign; Rosen, Johnson faced campaign targeting them after Carr brothers’ convictions overturned”: The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report.

And The Wichita Eagle reports that “Kansans vote to retain justices Lee Johnson, Eric Rosen.”

“Court Reprimands Lawyer Linked to Judge’s Resignation”: Susan Decker of Bloomberg News has this report.

My earlier coverage of today’s en banc Federal Circuit order can be accessed here.

“Don’t Bring Back the Judicial Filibuster: Why Republicans have to leave the process — which comports with tradition — alone.” Ed Whelan has this essay today at National Review Online.

And today at The Huffington Post, Paul Gordon has a blog entry titled “Lame Duck Opportunity and Obligation: Confirm Judges.”

Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner affirms ruling in favor of Quincy Jones: Not that Quincy Jones, however, although today’s ruling does make mention of Leonard Bernstein.

En banc Federal Circuit publicly reprimands attorney Edward R. Reines for for his misconduct in disseminating an email to clients and prospective clients that he received from then-Chief Judge Randall R. Rader: You can access today’s unanimous, en banc per curiam order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit at this link.

“Enron Meets Red Grouper as Top Court Mulls Evidence Case”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

And Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has an updated report headlined “A fish tale: Supreme Court and the missing grouper.”

“What Republican Senate Means for Supreme Court”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“The Supreme Court Takes Up The Case Of The Missing Fish”: Nina Totenberg has this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has a report headlined “A fish tale: Supreme Court and the missing grouper.”

Online at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “Fish, Shotguns and Judicial Activism.”

And in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Bill Shepherd has an op-ed titled “Something Fishy in Sarbox Land: How many groupers does it take to expose federal overreach and a flawed law gone wrong again?” You can freely access the full text of the op-ed via Google.