The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has posted online the audio of today’s three same-sex marriage oral arguments: You can access the audio via this link.

The oral argument in the Louisiana case can be accessed here (55.2 MB mp3 audio file).

The oral argument in the Mississippi case can be accessed here (57.5 MB mp3 audio file).

And the oral argument in the Texas case can be accessed here (55.4 MB mp3 audio file).

Alan M. Dershowitz argued an appeal on Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: You can access the oral argument audio via this link (92.8 MB mp3 audio file).

“Court issues orders but does not grant any new cases”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court takes no action on pending gay marriage cases.”

And Josh Gertstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Supreme Court silent on same-sex marriage cases.”

You can access today’s italicized Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“House Vote and Nebraska Ruling Raise Pressure on Obama Over Pipeline”: The New York Times has this news update.

“High court justices meet to decide whether to hear gay marriage case”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this news update.

“Appeals judges ask more questions from gay marriage opponents at hearing on Louisiana’s ban”: Andy Grimm of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this news update.

Chuck Lindell and Jazmine Ulloa of The Austin American-Statesman have a news update headlined “Judges skeptical of Louisiana marriage arguments.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Louisiana’s appeal: Gay marriage is ‘novel’ and risky.”

“Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor induction ceremony”: The Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania has posted the video at this link.

“It’s high noon for high court on gay marriage”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

And The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that “Legal experts predict Supreme Court will take gay marriage case from Ohio’s federal appeals court.”

“Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law used to route Keystone XL”: Joe Duggan of The Omaha World-Herald has this news update.

Nicholas Bergin of The Lincoln Journal Star has a news update headlined “Court upholds law used to route Keystone XL.”

Andrew Harris of Bloomberg News reports that “Keystone Pipeline Nebraska Path Cleared by State High Court.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Nebraska high court tosses suit over Keystone pipeline route.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Nebraska at this link.

It is interesting to note that Nebraska is another state that has adopted a constitutional provision specifying that “[n]o legislative act shall be held unconstitutional except by the concurrence of five judges.” Although four of the seven justices in today’s ruling voted to hold that the law being challenged — which allows allows “major oil pipeline” carriers to bypass ordinary regulatory procedures — was unconstitutional, the constitutional challenge failed by operation of law because a super-majority of five justices did not agree.

“Donald Lemons becomes 26th Va. Supreme Court chief justice”: Frank Green of The Richmond Times-Dispatch has this report.

“Court of Appeals begins 2015 two judges down”: Capital New York has an article that begins, “The state’s highest court is set to begin its 2015 session down two judges from its usual complement of seven, a deficit that could potentially affect dozens of cases on the court’s docket.”

“Billboards and the Bill of Rights: The Supreme Court is slowly changing the meaning of words in free-speech law — and not for the better.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

“Oklahoma man who struck down Ten Commandments monument heads home from hospital, the same day the monument is replaced at Capitol”: The Oklahoman has this report.

“East Tennessee gay couples await Supreme Court announcement”: The Knoxville News Sentinel has this report.

And The Detroit Free Press reports today that “Supreme Court may take Michigan same-sex marriage case.”

“Gay marriage bans in South will be heard in federal court”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Bans on gay marriage in three staunchly conservative Southern states were to get a hearing in a federal appeals court Friday — the latest legal battle over an issue expected to be settled by the nation’s highest court.”

“Jon Wilcox backs election of chief justice on state Supreme Court”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a news update that begins, “A former state Supreme Court justice called Thursday for allowing members of the court to pick who will lead them, but said he would be comfortable with putting off making the change for five years.”

“Alan Dershowitz Vows to Clear Name After Sex Abuse Accusation; The prominent criminal law expert, accused of sexual relations with a minor, vehemently denies the allegations”: Jonathan Handel has this post today at the “Hollywood, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

And yesterday and today at National Review Online’s “Bench Memos” blog, Ed Whelan had posts titled “Alan Dershowitz’s Curious Denials” and “Alan Dershowitz Responds.”

“On-call workers entitled to pay for all hours spent at job, court rules”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this news update reporting on a ruling that the Supreme Court of California issued today.

“Courts wrestle with wave of new state abortion laws”: Paige Winfield Cunningham of Politico.com has this report today.

“The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision continues to echo”: Amanda Hollis-Brusky has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

Hollis-Brusky is the author of the forthcoming book “Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution.”

“ND Supreme Court declines to rehear drug-induced abortion case”: The The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, North Dakota has this report.

“State revises death penalty protocol, will delay executions”: Alan Johnson of The Columbus Dispatch has this news update.

And Reuters reports that “Ohio to change execution drugs after inmate’s prolonged death.”

“Could you decide on death penalty in Tsarnaev case?” Online at The Boston Globe, columnist Thomas Farragher has an essay that begins, “Could you sit in a room with 11 other people and decide to strap Dzohkhar Tsarnaev to a gurney inside a federal prison where nameless technicians would inject him with a deadly poison?”

“The Supreme Court: Guilty as Charged.” Online at Newsweek, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has an essay that begins, “After 227 years of history, how should we judge the U.S. Supreme Court?”

“The legal argument against mandatory vaccination”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

“New Virginia Supreme Court chief justice Donald Lemons sworn in Thursday”: The Associated Press has this report.

“States Fight Obama’s Claim Immigration Order Is Unreviewable”: Laurel Brubaker Calkins of Bloomberg News has a report that begins, “Twenty-five states’ top lawyers blasted the federal government’s claim that President Barack Obama’s executive order letting more than 4 million undocumented immigrants stay in the U.S. is above judicial review.”

“Same-Sex Marriage Primed for Review as U.S. High Court Gathers”: Greg Stohr and Andrew Harris of Bloomberg News have this report.

“Roberts’s Frost: A poetic justice.” Adam J. White has this blog post online today at The Weekly Standard.

“What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taught Me About Being a Stay-at-Home Dad: A young lawyer puts his former boss’s ideals into practice.” Ryan Park has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

“Guantanamo order bars women from moving accused in 9/11 case”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A military judge ordered officials at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday to stop using female guards to move the five defendants in the Sept. 11 case to court and back and to meetings with their lawyers.”

“New high court look at gay marriage? Now legal in 36 states.” Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

Eighth Circuit sides with recent rulings of other federal appellate courts in limiting cy pres awards from proceeds of class action settlements: You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

“ACLU joins fight over Pennsylvania law curbing inmate speech”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Grand jury recommends criminal charges against Attorney General Kathleen Kane”: Craig R. McCoy and Angela Couloumbis of The Philadelphia Inquirer have a news update that begins, “The special prosecutor and grand jury investigating allegations that Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane leaked secret information to a newspaper have found evidence of wrongdoing and recommended that she be criminally charged, according to numerous people familiar with the decision.”