“Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.'” In today’s edition of The New York Times, Jennifer Senior has a book review that begins, “Aesthetically speaking, ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ is a cheery curio, as if a scrapbook and the Talmud decided to have a baby.”

“‘Notorious RBG’: The Supreme Court Justice Turned Cultural Icon.” Nina Totenberg of NPR has this report.

“New health overhaul challenge reaching Supreme Court”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Aging Supreme Court energizes Republicans more than Democrats in 2016 race”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Supreme Court to examine racial divide in jury selection”: Robert Barnes will have this article in Monday’s edition of The Washington Post.

“A Comment on Noah Feldman on Judge Gordon Quist”: Asher Steinberg has this post at his blog, “The Narrowest Grounds.”

“Ruling upholds extra prison time for felon who laughed during sentencing”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Judge’s doubling of laughing defendant’s prison time upheld.”

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

“Cruz: America ‘one more liberal justice’ away from irrevocable damage.” Bradford Richardson has this article online at The Hill.

“Evangelicals Discover Moral Ambiguity on the Death Penalty; A new focus on systemic institutional problems reflects the changing demographics of the faithful”: Robert P. Jones has this article online today at The Atlantic.

“‘The most significant race in recent memory’ for Pa. Supreme Court”: In today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chris Palmer has an article that begins, “The low-wattage contest for Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court got a few jolts of energy last week, thanks to a blitz of television ads and the release of pornographic emails tied to a sitting justice.” The newspaper also contains an editorial titled “Supreme opportunity.”

In today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Chris Potter has a front page article headlined “State Supreme Court race runs along party lines; Three seats open on Supreme Court.” Potter also has a related article headlined “Seven candidates in the running for three Pennsylvania Supreme Court seats.” And the newspaper contains an editorial titled “For Supreme Court: The best choices are Olson, Donohue and Wecht.”

And in today’s edition of The Erie Times-News, Ed Palattella has this article profiling the appellate court candidates. The newspaper also contains an editorial titled “Statewide judges should be picked on merit.”

“Kane fights back and ignites wider debate on Pa. politics”: Craig R. McCoy and Angela Couloumbis have this article in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

And today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette contains a letter to the editor titled “Justice Eakin, domestic abuse is never a joke.”

“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: A War Court.” Aaron Nielson has this post at the blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

“Porn emails raise questions about judicial ethics in Pa.” Wallace McKelvey of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

Yesterday’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contained an editorial titled “Mixed messages.”

Yesterday’s edition of The Philadelphia Daily News contained an editorial titled “5 things you won’t believe about latest porn email scandal.”

And at the “Philly Clout” blog of The Philadelphia Daily News, William Bender has a post titled “Is Pennsylvania run by our crazy uncles?”

“The secrets of the death penalty: One of the state’s most important acts — that of putting someone to death — is also one of its most secretive activities.” Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

And Michael Kiefer of The Arizona Republic reports that “Arizona again tries to illegally import execution drug.”

“At SCOTUS, Today’s Dissent Can Become Tomorrow’s Majority Opinion: Examining the role of dissenting opinions in U.S. legal history.” Damon Root has this post at Reason’s “Hit & Run” blog.

“The Law School Debt Crisis”: This editorial will appear in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Judges Will Travel, Overturn Decisions”: Online at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay that begins, “In an unusual, head-snapping reversal, Amazon.com has convinced a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to retract an opinion on its search results technique and replace it with a decision in its favor. To make the result even weirder, the single judge who flipped isn’t a member of the 9th Circuit all.”

“Justices reject administration’s advice more often lately”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Illinois spat arises from Supreme Court union dispute”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Dog wins its day in court after defendant challenged canine’s presence in Akron trial”: The Akron Beacon Journal has an article that begins, “An Ohio appeals court has rejected an Ohio prisoner’s claim that the wagging tail of a dog brought into an Akron courtroom to put a young victim at ease swayed the jury in the case.”

You can access Wednesday’s ruling of Ohio’s all-female Ninth District Court of Appeals at this link. Back in 2013, Court News Ohio had a report titled “Appeals Court Makes History With All-Women Membership.” For similar reports from elsewhere, see here (Milwaukee) and here (San Antonio).

“Appeals court says American can’t sue FBI over abuse claims”: Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court says a U.S. citizen can’t sue a group of FBI agents he says falsely imprisoned and tortured him for several months in Africa.”

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Court rules against American citizen held by U.S. agents in Africa.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in which all three judges issued an opinion, at this link.

“Google Books’ Win May Threaten Other Media; An appellate court decision broadens fair use online”: Robert Levine of Bloomberg Businessweek has this report.

“Kennedy assails prison shortcomings; At Law School, Supreme Court judge cites ‘ongoing injustice’ of system”: The Harvard Gazette has this report.

“Court Rules That Student Loan Company Isn’t Above the Law; This lawsuit could have blocked borrowers from getting their day in court”: Natalie Kitroeff of Bloomberg News has this report.

My earlier coverage of Wednesday’s Fourth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“States challenge Obama’s carbon rules in court”: Valerie Volcovici and Lawrence Hurley of Reuters have an article that begins, “Twenty-four states said they filed a petition with a U.S. appeals court on Friday to block the Obama administration’s proposal to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, the centerpiece of its high-profile climate change strategy.”

“Appeals court reverses itself, gives Amazon a trademark win over watchmaker; Decision diverts an impending trial over Amazon’s search function”: Joe Mullin of Ars Technica has this report.

My earlier coverage of Wednesday’s Ninth Circuit ruling on panel rehearing can be accessed here.

“Kathleen Kane lets public judge J. Michael Eakin’s emails”: Steve Esack has this front page article in today’s edition of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

“‘Minion of Satan’ asks to give invocation in Lake”: In today’s edition of The Orlando Sentinel, Christal Hayes has an article that begins, “A South Florida man who describes himself as a ‘minion of Satan’ has requested to give a satanic invocation before a Lake County Commission meeting.”

“U.S. Prosecutor to Drop Insider Trading Cases Against Seven”: In today’s edition of The New York Times, Matthew Goldstein has an article that begins, “The impact of a landmark decision that made it harder to prosecute insider trading was amply demonstrated on Thursday as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan moved to dismiss the charges and convictions of seven people.”

“Mormons Say Duty to Law on Same-Sex Marriage Trumps Faith”: Jack Healy has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Ed Whelan vs George Will on ‘judicial restraint'”: Randy Barnett has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Electing Pennsylvania Supreme Court Judges: Justice for Sale?” The video of this past Monday’s broadcast of The American Law Journal, on which I served as an in-studio guest, is now available online via YouTube at this link.

The other in-studio guests were retired U.S. District Judge Edward N. Cahn (E.D. Pa.) and Hank Grezlak, editor-in-chief of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

“Attorney General’s office releases emails of Supreme Court Justice Eakin”: Charles Thompson of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this news update. Thompson also reports that “Kathleen Kane breaks with her deputy on Pa. Supreme Court Justice Eakin’s emails.”

Karen Langley of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a news update headlined “AG Kane’s office releases to reporters examples of justice’s ‘offensive’ emails.”

Craig R. McCoy and Maria Panaritis of The Philadelphia Inquirer have a news update headlined “Kane releases offensive emails.”

Brad Bumsted of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a news update headlined “Kane blames First Deputy Beemer for review of justice’s emails.”

Tuesday’s edition of The Reading (Pa.) Eagle contained an editorial titled “Justice’s continued service could taint high court cases.”

In today’s edition of The Reading Eagle, columnist Liam Migdail-Smith has an op-ed titled “It’s too late to regret it after you said it.”

And in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, columnist Jennifer Graham has an op-ed titled “Whatever happened to modesty? When porn gets soft-pedaled as ‘mild,’ the Halloween tramp won’t be far behind.”

“For Supreme Court — Christine Donohue, Judith Olson and David Wecht”: The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has posted online this editorial today.

And this past Sunday’s edition of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review contained an editorial titled “For Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Elect Michael George, Judy Olson & David Wecht,”

“How Supreme Court Justices Check for Conflicts of Interest”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this interesting report today (pass-through link via Twitter).