“The Bright Guy”: Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf had this post yesterday at his “Hercules and the Umpire” blog.

“5 ways court could thwart Obama”: Ben Kamisar of The Hill has this report.

“Pessimist’s persistence could pay off against Obamacare”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

And David Nather of Politico Magazine has an article headlined “Will Jonathan Gruber Topple Obamacare? The health economist’s controversial remarks could undo him and the law he worked so hard to create.”

“Candidate suggests that out-of-state judges resolve Prosser ethics case”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article that begins, “A Rock County judge running for state Supreme Court wants to ship an ethics case against Justice David Prosser to another state’s top court — an idea that two law professors suggested is legally impossible.”

“Pleasing the Court With Intrigue: David Lat’s ‘Supreme Ambitions’ Is a Thriller for Lawyers”: Alexandra Alter will have this article in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Now Magazine plans to defy ad ban in new prostitution bill; Alternative newspaper has long published ads promoting sexual services in back pages”: The Canadian Press has this report.

“Bill aims to keep cross on Mt. Soledad in San Diego, ending dispute”: The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“The D.C. Circuit’s Mandamus Jurisdiction and the Legitimacy of the Military Commissions”: Steve Vladeck has this post today at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Health coverage subsidies facing court challenge”: This article appears in today’s edition edition of The Detroit Free Press.

“State Supreme Court races will sizzle in 2015”: James P. O’Toole has this article in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“In Seven States, Atheists Push to End Largely Forgotten Ban”: This article will appear in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Big Law Fumbles Are Focus at Federal Circuit”: Scott Graham of The Recorder has this report.

You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

How will West Publishing Co. solve this conundrum? Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit disposed of an appeal by an unpublished opinion.

In the same case, however, one of the judges on the panel issued a for-publication concurring opinion. I have never before seen a U.S. Court of Appeals issue a decision that was unpublished, accompanied by the separate opinion of a single judge on the panel that was for-publication. If anyone else has previously seen this, please let me know via email.

Eventually, we will learn if the majority opinion will appear in the Federal Appendix and the concurring opinion, alone, will appear in the Federal Reporter, Third Series.

“Gavel Is Passed to Ninth Circuit’s New Chief Judge”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today posted online a report that begins, “Herding cats, taming lions and the wide open spaces of Montana all figured into a warm and humor-filled ceremony marking a changing of the guard at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.”

The Ninth Circuit has posted on YouTube at this link the video of yesterday’s gavel-passing ceremony.

“Argument preview: A doctrinal trip back to the 1930s?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

“U.S. Supreme Court to hear mental retardation claim of Baton Rouge convicted killer; Mental retardation, execution eligibility at heart of the matter”: This article appears in today’s edition of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“Supreme Court to Hear Cases on License Plates and Mentally Disabled Death Row Inmates”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article headlined “Supreme Court to hear Confederate-flag license plate case from Texas.”

David G. Savage reports that “Supreme Court to decide on ‘Confederate’ license plates.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court to rule on controversial license plates.”

In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Brent Kendall reports that “Supreme Court to Hear Free-Speech Case on Specialty License Plates; State of Texas Seeks to Bar Specialty Plate With Confederate Flag.”

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau has a report headlined “Free speech, or a rebel yell? Supreme Court agrees to hear Texas license plate case.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Can states refuse to issue Confederate flag license plates?”

The Dallas Morning News reports that “Texas battle over Confederate flag license plate headed to Supreme Court.”

And The Houston Chronicle reports that “U.S. Supreme Court to hear Confederate flag license plate case.”

“Thurgood Marshall Blasted Police for Killing Black Men With Chokeholds; Thirty years before the NYPD and Eric Garner, the Supreme Court justice took on the LAPD”:
Dave Gilson has this essay online Thursday at Mother Jones.

And in today’s edition of The New York Times, law students Shakeer Rahman and Sam Barr have an op-ed titled “Eric Garner and the Legal Rules That Enable Police Violence.”

“Experts See Legal Hazards in States’ Immigration Suit”: Julia Preston has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taboo: Democrats don’t want to talk about the justice’s age or health.” Burgess Everett of Politico.com has this report.

“Key elements of Rolling Stone’s U-Va. gang rape allegations in doubt”: T. Rees Shapiro of The Washington Post has this news update.

“Law, Economics, and Posner”: Michael Dorf has this post today at “Dorf on Law.”

“The Most Conservative And Most Liberal Elite Law Schools”: Oliver Roeder has this post today at FiveThirtyEight.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court today granted review in three new cases.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Court to review politically charged license plates“; “High court to hear Louisiana death row appeal“; and “Supreme Court takes up Cisco patent dispute.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Confederate Flag License Plate Case Gets U.S. High Court Review” and “Patent Suit Defense Gets U.S. High Court Review in Cisco Case.”

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices to hear Confederate license plate free speech case” and “U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Cisco patent infringement case.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court to rule on license plate messages, two other cases.”

“Obama Harvard Law Professor Tribe Calls Key EPA Rule ‘Overreach’; The rule raises ‘serious constitutional questions,’ he says”: Bloomberg News has this report.

You can view law professor Laurence H. Tribe‘s comments, as filed with the EPA, at this link.

“Are Parents Obliged to Pay for College? Strangely, it may depend on whether they’re divorced.” Law professor John Culhane has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Access online the audio of this week’s oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court: Via this link.

Law professor Jeffrey Rosen has departed from The New Republic: So reports Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post this morning in an article headlined “New Republic Exodus: Dozens Of Editors Resign Over Management Changes.”

“Cybercrime and the Fourth Amendment: Panelists talked about cyber information and the fourth amendment.” C-SPAN has posted online the video of yesterday’s panel discussion at this Georgetown Law event (second panel).

Participating in the discussion were Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner, Ninth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown, Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben, and law professors David Cole and Orin Kerr.

Yesterday, I had this post linking to news coverage of this panel discussion.

“Samsung asks appeals court to throw out $930 million damages in Apple infringement case”: Diane Bartz of Reuters has this report.

You can access the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit via this link (18.1 MB mp3 audio file).

“Why the Federalism Teachings from the 2012 Obamacare Case Weaken the Challengers’ Case in King v. Burwell“: Law professor Vikram David Amar has this essay online today at Justia’s Verdict.

“Vincent McKusick, bright and kind ex-chief justice in Maine, dies at 93; He worked with two of the nation’s legendary legal minds, but spent much of an impressive career in his native Maine”: This obituary appears on the front page of today’s edition of The Portland Press Herald.

“Caleb Stegall to be sworn in as Kansas Supreme Court justice Friday”: Bryan Lowry of The Wichita Eagle has this report.

“UVA Gang Rape Allegations Face Long, Divisive Legal Path”: David Glovin of Bloomberg News has this lengthy report today.

“Four University Law grads to clerk for Supreme Court; Ties 2010 record, University has sent fourth most clerks since 2005”: The Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Virginia, has this report.