“In insider trading appeal, Justice Department makes big concession”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

“U.S. appeals court upholds conviction of Reid fundraiser”: Reuters has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Conviction upheld over contributions to Sen. Harry Reid.”

You can access today’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Pathways to the Bench: U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen.” At the Federal Judiciary Channel of YouTube, you can view the video at this link.

“Alabama appeals decision blocking ban on same-sex marriage”: The Associated Press has this report.

And Brendan Kirby of The Mobile Press-Register has an article headlined “Mobile women at center of Alabama gay marriage fight celebrate court victory.”

“Deeply conservative Oklahoma adjusts to sudden arrival of same-sex marriage”: Monica Hesse of The Washington Post has this report.

“Attorney general asks to stay all scheduled Oklahoma executions; In a Monday filing, the attorney general’s office asked for a stay of execution on all three of the state’s scheduled lethal injections; The stays were requested in order to await the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of Oklahoma’s lethal cocktail”: Graham Lee Brewer of The Oklahoman has this news update.

Cary Aspinwall of The Tulsa World has a news update headlined “OK Attorney General asks Supreme Court to delay executions.”

Margaret Cronin Fisk and Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News report that “Oklahoma Seeks Delay of Executions Pending Top Court Review.”

The Associated Press reports that “Oklahoma could halt executions for Supreme Court drug review.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Oklahoma takes next step on executions.”

Access online today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in an argued case: Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett, No. 13-1010. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a concurring opinion, in which Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

“Rand Paul’s Brand of Judicial Activism”: Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online today at Bloomberg View. The essay begins, “For many decades, the Supreme Court’s 1905 decision in Lochner v. New York has ranked among the most universally despised rulings in the history of American law.”

“Method-of-execution claims and the ‘courtesy fifth'”: Orin Kerr has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

I anticipate that the U.S. Supreme Court will not allow executions to proceed in Oklahoma, or in any other state that uses the identical method of execution that the Court has granted certiorari to review, pending a decision on the method’s constitutionality. Regardless of the ultimate resolution of the case, which at least theoretically remains up-for-grabs until a decision issues, allowing executions to proceed in the interim will look very, very, very bad for the Court from the perspective of the general public.

“NY insider trading ruling tests prosecutors beyond Wall Street”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this news analysis today.

“A Twist in the Murder of a 97-Year-Old Man: He Was Knifed 5 Decades Ago.” J. David Goodman had this front page article in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times.