“Courtney Love Fails to Get an Appeals Court to Dispense Defamation Lawsuit; The singer/actress is neither Marlon Brando nor a free speech crusader”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “Hollywood, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

You can access today’s unpublished ruling of California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal at this link.

“‘Sniper’ Case Is Headed to Appeal, Lawyers Say”: Manny Fernandez will have this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

“New Eleventh Circuit Judges Get Official Welcome”: Alyson Palmer of The Fulton County Daily Report has this article.

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

“A Litmus Test for ObamaCare and the Rule of Law: The president has ignored the law’s plain language; Now the Supreme Court decides if that’s all right.” Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

You can freely access the full text of the op-ed via Google.

“Justices on the stage: Why Americans are increasingly fascinated by their highest court.” David Rennie has this essay in the February 28, 2015 issue of The Economist magazine.

“Can life in prison be worse than death? Some Tsarnaev jurors think so.” Masha Gessen of The Washington Post has this report.

“2nd Circuit was right to curtail insider trading cases: profs’ amicus brief.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

One of the amicus briefs to which Frankel’s article links discloses that Reed Smith practices law at Cooley LLP. And, demonstrating that turnabout is fair play, a Google search discloses that Cooley practices law at Reed Smith LLP.

“Can Tom Wolf really kill the death penalty?” Philadelphia Weekly has this report.

“Book review: Law professor, feminist, and jurist extraordinaire.” Today at “SCOTUSblog,” Barbara Babcock has this review of the new book “The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

And yesterday at “Hamilton & Griffin on Rights,” Scott Dodson had a post titled “Why I Edited This Book: Scott Dodson, The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

“Supreme Court Justice Talks Constitution, Structure Of Government During Fort Smith Visit”: The Times Record of Fort Smith, Arkansas has this news update.

The Missouri Law Review symposium issue celebrating the late Anthony Lewis and exploring the future of legal journalism is now available online: You can access the contents via this link.

The issue includes Adam Liptak’s keynote address and articles written by, among others, Lincoln Caplan (“Anthony Lewis: What He Learned at Harvard Law School“); Lyle Denniston (“Anthony Lewis: Pioneer in the Court’s Pressroom“); Linda Greenhouse (“The Rigorous Romantic: Anthony Lewis on the Supreme Court Beat“); Dahlia Lithwick (“Anthony Lewis“); Howard Mintz (“Legal Journalism Today: Change or Die“); Gene Policinski (“Setting the Docket: News Media Coverage of Our Courts — Past, Present and an Uncertain Future“); David A. Sellers (“As Today’s Tony Lewises Disappear, Courts Fill Void“); and former Missouri Chief Justice Michael A. Wolff (“Making Judge-Speak Clear Amidst the Babel of Lawspeakers“).

And for those who like to watch, you can access videos from the symposium — which occurred a little over one year ago — via this link.

“Roberts at 10: Turning Back the Clock on Protections for Racial Equality.” David H. Gans has this issue brief online at the Constitutional Accountability Center.

“Supreme Court protesters say no plans to disrupt Obamacare case”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“If Supreme Court says no, they’d lose health insurance help”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Federal appeals court orders Alan Newton be paid $18.5 million for wrongful rape conviction”: The New York Daily News has this report.

And Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that “U.S. court restores $18 million award to man freed in NYC rape case.”

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

“Cop who spoke out against arrest quotas can sue NYPD: court.” The New York Post has this news update.

The New York Daily News has an article headlined “NYPD cop who blew whistle on quota system can pursue suit against city: Federal Appeals court.”

And The Associated Press reports that “NYC police officer’s lawsuit over arrest quotas gets revived.”

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

“S.C. Supreme Court freezes James Brown estate case”: This front page article appears in today’s edition of the Aiken Standard.

“South Carolina court orders J&J to pay $136 mln in Risperdal case”: Reuters has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of South Carolina issued yesterday.

“The Alternative Reality of King v. Burwell”: Rob Weiner had this post yesterday at “ACSBlog.”

“How a federal judge pushed Big Tobacco into $100 mln deal with smokers”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight yesterday had a report that begins, “In July 2013, a federal appeals court overseeing thousands of individual smokers’ suits against Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard threw up its hands in defeat.”

“US Supreme Court says NC dental board can’t regulate teeth whitening”: The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

In today’s edition of The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that “Justices Find Antitrust Law Valid Against Dental Board.” In addition, Vikas Bajaj has a “Taking Note” essay titled “A Plot to Keep Teeth Whitening Expensive.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court restricts state license schemes that limit competition.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “Justices: Dentists can’t decide who whitens your teeth.”

Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal has an article headlined “Supreme Court Affirms FTC Antitrust Authority Over Licensing Boards; Decision protects power of regulators to scrutinize such professional panels.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau has a blog post titled “Supreme Court says ‘open wide’ to North Carolina teeth-whitening business.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Professional Boards Opened to New Scrutiny by Top U.S. Court.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court says state dental board can’t regulate teeth whitening.”

And Nina Totenberg of NPR has a blog post titled “Dentists Have No Right To Limit Who Can Whiten Your Teeth, Justices Say.”

“Poster Child: How Terrance Williams became the face of the death penalty debate in Pennsylvania.” Andrew Cohen has this essay online today at The Marshall Project.

“Future of ‘mental anguish’ law at stake in federal court”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Mumia Abu-Jamal, who’s serving a life term for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer, is among the plaintiffs asking a federal judge to block a Pennsylvania law they say violates prisoners’ free-speech rights.”

“Obamacare defense is tailored for key Supreme Court justices”: David G. Savage has this article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

And David Nather and Jennifer Haberkorn of Politico.com report that “Supreme Court ruling could upturn Obamacare politics.”