“Equality before the law: Showtime for gay marriage; The Supreme Court ponders the biggest case of the decade.” This article appears in the May 2, 2015 issue of The Economist.

At the blog “Dorf on Law,” Michael Dorf has a post titled “Is the Sex Discrimination Rationale in the SSM Cases Narrower?”

And at Big Think, Steven Mazie has a post titled “The Incredible Shrinking Argument Against Gay Marriage.”

“California charities must disclose major donors, court rules”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this news update reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

By a vote of 6-to-5, the en banc Seventh Circuit gives federal death row inmate another chance to establish mental retardation demonstrating ineligibility for execution: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

“Appeals court overturns rule on backup generators”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

“Supreme Court permanently disbars former Rep. William Jefferson”: Bruce Alpert of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this news update.

You can access today’s per curiam ruling of the Supreme Court of Louisiana at this link.

“SCOTUS chief justice is worried about eroding public faith in judges”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

Greetings from New Orleans: It’s great to be here, as always. In news of local interest, Mark Schleifstein of The Times-Picayune has a news update headlined “Judge: Corps’ MR-GO ‘took’ value of properties in St. Bernard, Lower 9th Ward.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Judge: US government liable for some Katrina flooding.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims — the very same court on which Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski entered the judiciary as a non-Article III federal judge — at this link.

“Bonds, baseball, and prosecutorial BS”: David Post has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“SCOTUSblog on camera: Kenji Yoshino.” Fabrizio di Piazza has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

Programming note: This afternoon, I will be in transit to the location of my next speaking event — mentioned in this recent earlier post — scheduled for next Tuesday morning.

My last visit there was in March 2009, and I had a very enjoyable time, as reflected in posts that you can access here, here, and here.

Additional posts will appear here this evening, although in the interim updates may appear on this blog’s Twitter feed.