“Texas appeals court judge calls for abolishing death penalty”: Allan Turner of The Houston Chronicle has this report.

The Texas Tribune has an article headlined “Criminal Appeals Judge Price: I Oppose Death Penalty.”

And Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed reports that “Republican Texas Criminal Appeals Judge Calls For End To Death Penalty.”

You can access the dissenting statement issued today at this link.

“The Supreme Court’s New EPA Case Has More to Do With Climate Change Than You Think”: Rebecca Leber has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Judge puts Arizona ‘revenge porn’ law on hold”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Obamacare Returns To SCOTUS: Will John Roberts Crush It This Time?” Sahil Kapur of TPM DC has this report.

“Kern chosen for South Dakota Supreme Court”: Today’s edition of The Rapid City Journal contains an article that begins, “For the first time in South Dakota’s history, the state Supreme Court will have two women among the five justices, and one of the two will be a Rapid City resident, Circuit Judge Janine Kern.”

“High court to hear S.F. appeal of ruling in police-shooting suit”: Bob Egelko has this article in today’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle.

“‘Notorious RBG’ goes to the hospital; expect revived debate”: Michael McGough has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“The Disgrace of Our Criminal Justice”: Law professor David Cole has this book review in the December 4, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books.

“Supreme Court faces a new frontier: Threats on Facebook.” Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“U.S. court rejects Motorola Mobility price-fixing appeal”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has an article that begins, “A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected Motorola Mobility LLC’s attempt to hold several Asian suppliers liable under U.S. antitrust law for fixing prices of mobile phone displays sold to its foreign units.”

Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel.

My earlier coverage of this case (including discussion of Judge Posner’s original, later-vacated, ruling on the merits) can be accessed here and here.

“Ginsburg has surgery for coronary blockage”: Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had surgery to place a stent in her right coronary artery.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Stent Implanted, Supreme Court Says.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg recovering after heart procedure.”

Adam Liptak of The New York Times has a news update headlined “Justice Ginsburg Undergoes Heart Procedure.”

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Justice Ginsburg has cardiac stent implanted, expected to be in hospital 2 days.”

The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recovering after heart procedure.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has a news update headlined “Justice Ginsburg Undergoes Heart Procedure to Treat Coronary Blockage; Supreme Court Says Ginsburg ‘Resting Comfortably’ at Washington-Area Hospital.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Justice Ginsburg has stent implanted in heart.”

The Washington Times reports that “Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized for heart surgery.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Ginsburg has heart surgery.”

The news release that the U.S. Supreme Court‘s public information office issued today can be accessed here.

“The Maverick — A Biographical Sketch of Judge Richard Posner: Part II, The Will to Greatness.” Ronald K.L. Collins has this post today at “Concurring Opinions.”