“Is the Supreme Court broken?” Gabe Roth has this essay online at msnbc.

“Nevada has 80 on death row, but no place to execute”: The Las Vegas Review-Journal has this report.

“The Case Against Gay Marriage: Top Law Firms Won’t Touch It.” Adam Liptak will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Stetson law prof took Gideon case to Supreme Court, but believed in the other side”: The Tampa Bay Times has this report.

“Grieving widower takes lead in major gay marriage case”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

And The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that “Gay marriage court briefs both wacky, profound.”

“Maryland prepares for $200 million hit from Supreme Court tax case”: The Washington Post has this report.

“Marriage Arrives: The Supreme Court is finally taking up same-sex marriage; How did we get here and what should we expect next?” This Amicus podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick appears online at Slate.

“Death sentence upheld in 2004 slaying of Tulsa bank teller”: The Tulsa World has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued yesterday.

Circuit Judge Neil M. Gorsuch issued an interesting concurring opinion questioning the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals‘ suggestion that it would be constitutional to execute accessories on a strict liability basis, without any showing of mens rea.

“In Massachusetts, a long and tortured death penalty history”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Florist in gay rights storm: ‘I’m a little grain of sand.'” The Associated Press has this report.

“The Supreme Court in the Citizens United Era: A Century After the Lochner Era, the Roberts Court Imposes a Startling New Corporatism on America.” People for the American Way has posted online this report written by law professor Jamie Raskin.

“Big Business Groups, Facing a Criminal Investigation at Wisconsin Supreme Court, Succeed in Ousting Chief Justice”: Billy Corriher has this blog entry at The Huffington Post. In this instance, “ousting” means removing from the post of Chief Justice at some point in the not too distant future, but not removing from the Supreme Court of Wisconsin altogether.

“Man loses appeal of sentence in school threats case”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Here’s A Look At The Most Ridiculously Long Judicial Vacancies The Senate Still Hasn’t Filled”: Jennifer Bendery of The Huffington Post has this report.

Apparently it’s never too late to amend an opinion: Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued this decision vacating the Fourth Circuit‘s judgment in Young v. United Parcel Service.

Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit issued this amended version of its ruling originally issued in January 2013 affirming the district court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of UPS — a decision whose resulting judgment the Supreme Court vacated last month.

“From him that hath not”: Benjamin Gould has this post at his “Appellate Briefs” blog about the decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued yesterday.