“Guantanamo prosecutors: Prison needs female guards touching, moving ex-CIA captives.” Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report today.

“Is Texas Getting Ready to Kill An Innocent Man?” Jordan Smith has this article online today at The Intercept.

“‘Grubergate’ Is Giving the Supreme Court Cover to Destroy Obamacare”: Brian Beutler has this essay online today at The New Republic.

“Justice Scalia sings ‘Pour Some Souter on Me'”: Harvard Parody has posted this video online at YouTube.

“Abortion Clinic Protesters: ‘Sidewalk Counselors’ or ‘Sidewalk Terrorists’? Demonstrators outside Planned Parenthood aren’t just protesting abortion; What really worries them is that women would prioritize anything over motherhood.” Jill Filipovic has this report online today at Cosmopolitan magazine.

“Gawker’s Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Story Is Turning Out to Be a Very Expensive One; The first year of the ongoing legal battle cost $600,000, and now the gossip site fights with its insurer over what’s an ‘injury’ and what’s an ‘accident'”: Eriq Gardner has this post Friday at the “Hollywood, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

“AP Impact: ‘Vaccine court’ keeps claimants waiting.” The Associated Press has this report.

“By Using Executive Order on Immigration, Obama Would Reverse Long-Held Stance”: In Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times, Michael D. Shear will have an article that begins, “President Obama is poised to ignore stark warnings that executive action on immigration would amount to ‘violating our laws’ and would be ‘very difficult to defend legally.’ Those warnings came not from Republican lawmakers but from Mr. Obama himself.”

“Magna Carta’s Legal Legacy: Conversation with Chief Justice Roberts & Lord Judge.” You can view the video via this link.

“Why The Best Supreme Court Predictor In The World Is Some Random Guy In Queens”: Oliver Roeder has this post online today at FiveThirtyEight Politics.

“Eric Holder on His Legacy, His Regrets, and His Feelings About the Death Penalty: An interview with the outgoing attorney general.” Bill Keller and Tim Golden have this interview online today at The Marshall Project.

“Scalia Says It’s Not Judges’ Job To Police ‘Garbage’ Laws”: Jess Davis of Law360.com has this report (subscription required for full access).

“Direct new challenges to Bakke ruling”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

Update: In other coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Harvard and UNC sued over their admission policies.”

And The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina reports that “Group files suit challenging UNC on use of race in admissions.”

“An Almost-Convincing Case Against Marriage Equality”: Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

And The Associated Press reports that “Gay marriage issue squarely before high court.”

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in two related cases that will receive a combined total of one hour of oral argument.

In addition, the Court issued a per curiam summary reversal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Glebe v. Frost, No. 14-95.

In early coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Court to consider when second mortgage can be void” and “Court denies plastics exec’s appeal of SEC fines.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court to hear Bank of America cases on second mortgages” and “U.S. Supreme Court declines Dean Foods antitrust appeal.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Bank of America Gets U.S. Supreme Court Review on Mortgages.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Dealing with ‘underwater’ mortgages.”

“The courts set a new record for invalidating software patents in 2014”: Timothy B. Lee has this post at Vox.com.

“US justices could toss legislative maps in AZ”: Howard Fischer has this article in today’s edition of The Arizona Daily Star.

“More Brains”: Jeffrey Toobin has this “The Bench” essay in the November 24, 2014 issue of The New Yorker.