“Montana Celebrates Browning Legacy”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit posted this news release online earlier this week.

Information on past installments of the Browning Distinguished Lectures in Law can be accessed via this link.

“50 years of privacy since Griswold: Gertner, Suk and Tribe discuss landmark case.” Harvard Law Today posted this article online last week.

“Complicit as Sin: How gay marriage opponents transformed themselves from a religious majority to a religious minority.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“5 running for Pa.’s top court agree: Judicial races cost too much.” This article appears in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“Support Gay Teens, Not Bad Laws”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“Roberts at 10: John Roberts and LGBT Rights — The Jury is Still Out.” Today, the Constitutional Accountability Center posted online this report written by Judith E. Schaeffer.

“11th Circuit to hear class cert challenge from moldy washer defendant”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

“Spring 2015 Friends Lecture Luncheon — An Afternoon with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor”: The New York Public Library hosted this event today, and you can view the video of the event via this link.

“Tsarnaev’s lawyer faces perhaps her biggest challenge yet”: The Associated Press has this report.

“The Coming Gay-Marriage Ruling”: Richard Socarides had this post online yesterday at The New Yorker.

“South Carolina to SCOTUS: We Can Discriminate Against Women, So Why Not Gays?” Mark Joseph Stern has this essay online at Slate.

“Marriage Rights Won’t Save Gays From Being Fired in Most States; As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on same-sex marriage, a cloud hovers in more than half the states”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

Seventh Circuit affirms entry of summary judgment for defendants in In re Text Messaging Antitrust Litigation: Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote today’s ruling on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

“Obama To SCOTUS: Erasing Obamacare Subsidies Would Be ‘A Bad Decision.'” Sahil Kapur of TPM DC has this report.

“Supreme Court gives new life to death penalty debate”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Senator Mike Lee: Our Lost Constitution.” U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) will be speaking this evening at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia about his new book. The Constitution Center will be live-streaming Senator Lee’s remarks online, and you can access the video of the program starting at 6:30 p.m. eastern time via this link.

“Constitution Check: Did the Supreme Court give corporations a religious soul?” Lyle Denniston had this post Tuesday at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Judge Refuses to Let Obama’s Executive Actions on Immigration Proceed”: Michael D. Shear has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

And Sahil Kapur of TPM DC has an article headlined “Did A Federal Court Just Doom The GOP’s Big Immigration Lawsuit Against Obama?”

“Wal-Mart’s right to sell guns at risk in lawsuit; Church that owns 3,500 shares objected”: Kellan Howell of The Washington Times recently had this preview of an appeal argued yesterday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

And in coverage of yesterday’s oral argument, Saranac Hale Spencer of The Legal Intelligencer reports that “Quick Turnaround Expected for Third Circuit Wal-Mart Gun Case.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

The Third Circuit has posted online at this link (28 MB mp3 audio file) the audio of yesterday’s oral argument. Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. argued the appeal for Wal-Mart.

“Was Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial necessary?” Former U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner has this op-ed online at The Boston Globe.

“The Man Who Will Argue For Marriage Recognition At The Supreme Court: Doug Hallward-Driemeier is one of two lawyers representing same-sex couples at the Supreme Court later this month.” Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“Rules Committee to Recommend Putting Maryland Unreported Opinions Online, But Expanding Restrictions on Use of Other Unreported Decisions”: Michael Wein has this post at the “Maryland Appellate Blog.”

“Abrahamson sues to keep her job for four more years”:
Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a news update that begins, “A day after voters approved changing the state constitution to allow members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to elect their leader, Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson on Wednesday sued the six other members of the court to hold onto her job.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson sues over amendment approved by voters.”

You can access at this link the complaint initiating suit, filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.

“9th Tackles Duty to Warn in Model Mayhem Rape Case”: Katherine Proctor of Courthouse News Service has a report that begins, “The 9th Circuit heard from both sides Wednesday in a case alleging liability of the Model Mayhem website after two of its users drugged and raped a woman by luring her to a bogus casting call.”

The appeal was argued today on panel rehearing before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can view the oral argument video at this link.

My earlier coverage of the case appears here, here, and here.

“This case concerns the intersection between intellectual property rights and a Mardi Gras tradition.” So begins an opinion about “bead dogs” that Circuit Judge Stephen A. Higginson issued today on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

“Court questions Google on patent values in Microsoft case”: Dan Levine of Reuters has this report.

You can view at this link the video of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Kathleen M. Sullivan argued the appeal for Google, while Carter G. Phillips argued for Microsoft.

And in today’s installment of “Who are these irresponsible and unconstrained lawyers inflicting unnecessarily long briefs on the federal appellate courts?” — Sullivan’s Brief for Appellants contained 13,786 words, Phillips’s Brief for Appellee contained 13,976 words, and Sullivan’s Reply Brief for Appellants contained 6,854 words. Each of these briefs, filed by two of the most highly regarded appellate advocates in private practice, is considerably in excess of the new word limits now under consideration for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. Earlier installments in this series can be accessed here, here, and here.

“Questioning the Federal Circuit’s Reduced Flow of Information”: Dennis Crouch has this interesting post today at “Patently-O.”

“U.S. appeals court deals setback to Florida tobacco plaintiffs”: Reuters has this report.

My earlier coverage of today’s Eleventh Circuit ruling appears at this link.

Eighth Circuit announces oral argument date and panel assigned to same-sex marriage cases affecting Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota: The oral argument date will be May 12, 2015. And the three-judge panel assigned to hear and decide the cases will consist of Circuit Judges Roger L. Wollman, Lavenski R. Smith, and Duane Benton.

“In Memoriam: George M. Cockle.” This post appeared yesterday at the “Cockle News & Briefs” blog.

“Legal Conflicts on Medical Marijuana Enter a New Phase”: Erik Eckholm will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Tsarnaev guilty of Marathon bombings”: Milton J. Valencia, Patricia Wen, Kevin Cullen, John R. Ellement, and Martin Finucane of The Boston Globe have this news update.

Laurel J. Sweet, Jack Encarnacao, and Lindsay Kalter of The Boston Herald have a news update headlined “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev convicted on all charges in Boston Marathon bombing trial.” In addition, Laurel J. Sweet reports that “Death penalty win seen as tough sell in Tsarnaev case.”

And Katharine Q. Seelye of The New York Times has a news update headlined “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is Guilty in Boston Marathon Bombing Trial.”

“Michigan Firm Splits With Partner Who Will Argue For Gay Marriage Ban”: Katelyn Polantz of The National Law Journal has an article that begins, “The private-practice lawyer who will defend Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage before the U.S. Supreme Court had to leave his law firm temporarily to take the case. And the firm, Warner Norcross & Judd, has distanced itself from its colleague John Bursch and from the state’s case against same-sex couples.”

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

Florida “may not enforce a duty, as it has through the Engle jury findings, premised on the theory that all cigarettes are inherently defective and that every cigarette sale is an inherently negligent act.” So holds a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in a ruling issued today.

“Dzhokhar Tsarnaev convicted in Boston Marathon bombing”: The Associated Press has this report.