“How the South’s Public Enemy No. 1 climbed onto the Supreme Court”: Law professor Annette Gordon-Reed has this review of Wil Haygood’s new book, “Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America,” online at The Washington Post.

“Utah Supreme Court sets high bar for grandparent visitation orders; Parents generally have final say on who interacts with their children”: Pamela Manson of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

You can access Wednesday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Utah, which Associate Chief Justice Thomas R. Lee wrote on behalf of a unanimous court, at this link.

“America, The Next Hobby Lobby Case Is Heading For The Supreme Court: The justices could again weigh women’s health care against religious liberty.” Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has this report.

“Court Maintains Laches Defense for Back Damages in Patent Cases”: At his “Patently-O” blog, Dennis Crouch has this post about an en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued yesterday.

“California can’t charge out-of-state fishers higher fees, court rules”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Ruling against pricier fishing licenses for nonresidents upheld.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“U.S. appeals court strikes down one-gun-a-month law in District”: Ann E. Marimow and Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post have this report.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s D.C. Circuit ruling appears at this link.