“Justice Alito accepts an award that honors a colleague”: Chris Mondics will have this article in Friday’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

And in Friday’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Saranac Hale Spencer will have an article headlined “Alito, Accepting Becker Award, Lauds Third Circuit Icon.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

“In Philadelphia, Alito Reminisces About Influential Appeals Judge”: Tony Mauro has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

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

“Michigan couple poised to make gay marriage history”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“The Supreme Court Is Likely To Set Up The Same-Sex Marriage Showdown On Friday”: Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed has this report.

“The City of San Jose steps up to the plate to challenge the baseball industry’s 92-year old exemption from the antitrust laws.” So begins an opinion that Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski issued today on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Judge Kozinski’s opinion concludes:

Like Casey, San Jose has struck out here. The scope of the Supreme Court’s holding in Flood plainly extends to questions of franchise relocation. San Jose is, at bottom, asking us to deem Flood wrongly decided, and that we cannot do. Only Congress and the Supreme Court are empowered to question Flood‘s continued vitality, and with it, the fate of baseball’s singular and historic exemption from the antitrust laws

In early news coverage, Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News has an update headlined “San Jose v. MLB: appeals court rejects city’s antitrust case over A’s move.”

“Judge tells state to recognize 300 same-sex marriages”: The Detroit Free Press has this news update.

The Detroit News has an update headlined “Judge: Michigan must recognize 300 same-sex marriages.”

MLive.com has a report headlined “Judge: Michigan must recognize marriages of same-sex who wed on day it was legal.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Judge: Michigan must recognize 300-plus gay marriages.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan at this link.

“Why Obama Should Pardon Don Siegelman”: Jeffrey Toobin has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Porn publisher pushes to join suit to reveal Missouri execution process”: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has this report.

St. Louis Public Radio reports that “Larry Flynt Seeks Records In Missouri Execution Case.”

The Associated Press reports that “News groups back Larry Flynt’s push for execution info.”

And Courthouse News Service reports that “Media Ask 8th Circuit to Unseal Documents on Missouri Execution.”

You can access at this link the audio of yesterday’s oral argument in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

“Muhammad Sculpture Inside Supreme Court a Gesture of Goodwill”: Jacob Gershman had this post yesterday at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”

“Oklahoma to resume executions after 9-month delay”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “After a nearly nine-month delay prompted by a botched lethal injection last spring, Oklahoma plans to execute a death row inmate Thursday with the same three-drug method Florida intends to use about an hour earlier.”