“Why is DOJ fighting to keep mug shots out of reporters’ hands?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Sixth Circuit per curiam ruling appears at this link.

Ninth Circuit to consider imposing sanctions against U.S. Department of Justice attorney for “improper oral argument” based on a Los Angeles Times article published just days before oral argument: You can access at this link a rather interesting order that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

The Los Angeles Times article in question, as now available online, was headlined “Sex offender accused of assaulting teen was in U.S. illegally, officials say.” The oral argument video can be viewed online at YouTube at this link, advanced to the precise moment where the Justice Department attorney begins to reference the article in question.

Circuit Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw, who presided over the Ninth Circuit’s recent oral argument in the case, was the author of an opinion from 2013 that the identical three-judge panel issued requiring bond hearings for immigration detainees after 180 days. This blog’s earlier coverage of that ruling can be accessed here.

During last month’s Ninth Circuit oral argument in the case, it appears that the Justice Department’s attorney was suggesting that the Ninth Circuit’s 2013 ruling in the case helped bring about the resulting sex offender assault, while Judge Wardlaw maintained that it was the presiding Immigration Judge, also a Justice Department employee, who is responsible for letting a sex offender obtain bail under circumstances in which no reasonable jurist would find bail appropriate. In any event, the oral argument video shows that Judge Wardlaw was at least as familiar with the LA Times article as the arguing Justice Department attorney.

Update: In earlier coverage of the oral argument, Courthouse News Service reported that “DOJ Blasted for Timing and Use of News Story.”

“U.S. court revives $45 mln patent verdict against Limelight”: Reuters has this report on a unanimous en banc per curiam decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued today.

And Bloomberg News reports that “Akamai Wins Appeal in $45.5 Million Limelight Patent Case.”

“The Strangest Campaign Pledge: Why it makes sense to support a candidate who vows to straighten out democracy and then quit.” Online today at Slate, law professor Eric Posner has an essay that begins, “On Tuesday Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor, announced that he would run for president if he receives $1 million in donations by Labor Day.”

“Connecticut Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional, Bars Execution Of Any Inmate”: Edmund H. Mahony of The Hartford Courant has this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Connecticut’s top court overturns death penalty in state.”

Today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Connecticut consists of a 92-page majority opinion, two concurring opinions (here and here), and three dissenting opinions (here, here, and here).

Update: In other coverage, The New York Times reports that “Connecticut Death Penalty Law Is Unconstitutional, Court Rules.”

Reuters reports that “Connecticut’s top court bans death penalty in state.”

And Chris McDaniel of BuzzFeed News reports that “Connecticut High Court Nixes Death Sentences For 11 Remaining Death Row Inmates.”

“Clerk digs in, defies judge’s gay marriage order”: The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky has a news update that begins, “Despite a federal injunction, one same-sex couple has already been turned away from obtaining a marriage license at the Rowan County Clerk’s Office.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Clerk’s office defies order; no same-sex marriage licenses.”

“Gay Couple Wins Wedding Cake Court Of Appeals Ruling”: Denver’s CBS4 News has this report on a ruling that the Colorado Court of Appeals issued today.

And in other coverage, The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Baker who refused gay wedding cake can’t cite beliefs.”

“New law clerks begin work at Court”: North Dakota Supreme Court News has this report. And from the accompanying photo, it appears that a sheet cake helped commemorate the occasion.

“Howard Shipley Joins Gordon & Rees as Partner in Washington, D.C. Office”: You can view that law firm’s news release at this link (via “Above the Law“).