“Supreme Court vacancies stir debate over replacements”: Peter Hall will have this article, in which I am quoted, in Thursday’s edition of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Amy Worden of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update headlined “Wolf to name two Supreme Court justices.”

And The Standard Speaker of Hazleton, Pennsylvania has a news update headlined “Stevens announces candidacy for Supreme Court.”

“A Non-Nuclear Option for Supreme Court Nominations”: Jonathan Bernstein has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“Same-Sex Marriage Foes Dig In on the State Level”: Richard Fausset and Alan Blinder will have this front page article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Justice Sotomayor holds court in student section as U. keynote speaker”: The Deseret News has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks life lessons, mingles with Utah students at speech.”

“America Hates Terrorists — But we don’t execute them: A short history.” Eli Hager has this article online at The Marshall Project.

Tonight’s DVD selection: “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz.”

And last week, The Chicago Tribune had an article headlined “Aaron Swartz documentary, ‘The Internet’s Own Boy,’ comes home.”

“If you think you don’t belong, you’re wrong. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday geared the lesson at Latino students and others in a crowd of 6,000 at the University of Utah.” So begins an article available online from The Salt Lake Tribune.

“Holt v. Hobbs: Does a Muslim Prisoner’s Case Foreshadow the End of Affirmative Action?” Dawinder Sidhu has this post today at the “Religion & Politics” blog of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics of Washington University in St. Louis.

“Pennsylvania Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Commission Releases 2015 Judicial Ratings”: You can view both the ratings and the appellate court candidates’ completed questionnaires via this link.

“Supreme Court case on key Obamacare provision takes up this senator’s account”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“Judge Can’t Be Trusted With This Man’s Life; In 2002, a prosecutor defended the death sentence for a murderer; Now he’s a federal judge and refuses to recuse himself in the same case”: Andrew Cohen has this essay online today at The Daily Beast about Tenth Circuit Judge Jerome A. Holmes.

“Supreme Court halts 3 upcoming executions in Oklahoma”: The Associated Press has this report.

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

“Order striking down Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban applies to all officials, judge says”: AL.com has this report on an order clarifying judgment that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama issued today.

And in related news, AL.com also reports that “Southern Poverty Law Center files judicial ethics complaint against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore.”

“Appeals Court Rules News Orgs Don’t Have to Remove Stories When Criminal Records Are Expunged; A woman sued media organizations for libel, but there’s no ‘right to be forgotten’ in the United States”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “Hollywood, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Eugene Volokh has a post titled “Statute allowing ‘erasure’ of arrest records doesn’t require newspapers to erase news stories.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

“Case Western Reserve University continues effort to revoke a doctor’s degree in federal appeals court”: Karen Farkas had this article in June 2014 in The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The university has prevailed in a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today. Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton delivered the opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel.

Earlier in June 2014, The Plain Dealer published an article headlined “CWRU blocks graduation from med school over ‘professionalism’ issues; judge orders degree be awarded” reporting on the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio granting a permanent injunction.

In other coverage of the district court’s ruling, The Observer — the student newspaper of Case Western Reserve University — published an article headlined “Court rules against CWRU in medical student case.”

And at the “Minding the Campus” blog, KC Johnson had a post titled “Can Colleges Punish Students for Off-Campus, Non-Criminal Behavior?”

“Alabama’s Renegade Judge Defies Gay Marriage Order”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

And yesterday, Feldman had an essay titled “Should California Judges Join the Boy Scouts?”

“Wolf to fill Supreme Court vacancies, urges passage of non-discrimination bill”: The “Commonwealth Confidential” blog of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this post today.

“Ballot Talks: The state of Pennsylvania’s judiciary.” You can access the audio of last Wednesday’s broadcast of WHYY-FM’s “Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane” at this link.

“Jurors’ names ruled public record, SJC says; Top state court says ID’s must be included in criminal case files”: This article appears in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

The Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts has an article headlined “SJC ruling: Names of jurors must be made public in Massachusetts criminal trials.”

And The MetroWest Daily News reports that “Middlesex judge incorrectly withheld juror names in Wayland murder.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at this link.

“Filibuster trial balloon goes bust”: Burgess Everett of Politico.com has this report today.

“Hamm Ex-Wife Says Cashing Alimony Check Doesn’t End Appeal”: Margaret Cronin Fisk of Bloomberg News has an article that begins, “The ex-wife of Continental Resources Inc.’s Harold Hamm told Oklahoma’s highest court that her divorce appeal shouldn’t be blocked because she cashed an almost $1 billion alimony check.”

“Obama’s pick for attorney general faces heated confirmation debate”: Reuters has this report.

And today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment titled “Grassley Leads Senate Judiciary Panel As Loretta Lynch Hearings Begin.”

“For court of last resort, deadly deadlines loom”: Richard Wolf has this article in today’s edition of USA Today.

And yesterday at the “Democracy in America” blog of The Economist, Steven Mazie had a post titled “Capital punishment: Caught in the middle.”

“Supreme Court justice discusses rulings at Naples event”: Today’s edition of The News-Press of Fort Myers, Florida contains an article that begins, “Wearing a dark suit with a gold tie, the longest-serving justice on the U.S. Supreme Court sat down at a Naples beach hotel Tuesday and discussed his famous rulings.”

And The GW Hatchet has an article headlined “U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and Scalia will return to Lisner.”

“A False History: The Rewriting of the Affordable Care Act by the Challengers in King v. Burwell.” Eric Segall has this post today at “Dorf on Law.”

“Lawmaker asks would-be SC judges about ‘Supreme Being,’ gay marriage, equal pay for women”: The State of Columbia, South Carolina has this report.

“Tories to table life in prison without parole, shifting legal landscape”: Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail has this report.

“Marriage of Convenience”: Emily Bazelon will have this essay in the February 1, 2015 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

In the February 2015 issue of ABA Journal magazine: Steven Seidenberg has an article headlined “Business-method and software patents may go through the looking glass after Alice decision.”

David L. Hudson Jr. has an article headlined “3rd Circuit ruling upholds a lawyer’s right to post glowing judicial comments about his work.”

And Leslie A. Gordon has articles headlined “Legal minds differ on whether The Bluebook is subject to copyright protection” and “New project rewrites SCOTUS opinions from a feminist perspective.”

Senior D.C. Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman lauds the proposal to reduce the word limit for principal appellate briefs from 14,000 words to 12,500 words: Judge Silberman is among the most enthusiastic supporters of the word limit reduction, as you can see from his recently posted comment, which you can access directly by clicking here.

Coincidentally, the current Chair of the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules — which has proposed the word limit change — is Eighth Circuit Judge Steven M. Colloton, a former Silberman clerk.

The period for offering public comments on the pending proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure expires exactly three weeks from today, on Tuesday, February 17, 2015. You can comment online via this link.

“Georgia Executes Warren Lee Hill for Murder”: Alan Blinder of The New York Times has this news update.

“Does the Same-Sex Marriage Cert Grant Imperil the Affordable Care Act?” Michael Dorf had this post yesterday at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“Appeals court weighs suit in US Marshals shooting”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore says he will continue to recognize ban on same-sex marriage”: AL.com has this report. You can view today’s letter from Alabama’s Chief Justice to Alabama’s Governor at this link.

Brian Lyman of The Montgomery Advertiser has a news update headlined “Roy Moore denounces same-sex marriage ruling.”

Reuters reports that “Alabama Supreme Court chief justice encourages defiance on gay marriage ruling.”

And at his “Law News” blog, Lyle Denniston has a post titled “State judge sees ‘tyranny’ in same-sex marriage rulings.”

“Supreme Court refuses to halt execution of Ga. man”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Supreme Court has refused to halt the execution of a Georgia man whose lawyers say he is ineligible to be executed because he is intellectually disabled.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court allows Georgia execution.”

You can view today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.