“Appeals court orders Chicago sheriff to stop attacks on Backpage.com escort business; In which Judge Posner quotes Backpage’s ‘dom & fetish’ section”: Joe Mullin of Ars Technica has this report.

Additional coverage of today’s Seventh Circuit ruling can be accessed by scrolling down this page to view posts from earlier today.

“Judge Posner’s troubling explanation for his shift on same-sex marriage”: Ilya Somin has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

This post of mine from Saturday evening contains links to the relevant underlying materials.

“Next Chance To Gut Campaign Finance Law Heads For Supreme Court: The ban on ‘soft money’ donations to state parties is on the line.” Paul Blumenthal of The Huffington Post has this report.

“2015 Ames Moot Court Competition Gallery”: At this link, featuring Chief Justice Elena Kagan.

“Scope of National Security Inquiry Is Revealed”: In Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times, Colin Moynihan and Charlie Savage will have an article that begins, “After a decade of court battles, the Internet entrepreneur who filed the first legal challenge to a type of secret administrative order known as a national security letter revealed on Monday the breadth of an F.B.I. demand in 2004 for information about a customer.”

And at the ACLU’s “Speek Freely” blog, Jameel Jaffer has a post titled “A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted.”

Previously, Yale Law School issued a news release titled “Gag Order Lifted on Nicholas Merrill Through MFIA Clinic Case Win.” You can learn more about the law school’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at this link.

“In Phila., Kane to announce special prosecutors to investigate porn”: Angela Couloumbis of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update that begins, “Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane will use the backdrop of the National Constitution Center Tuesday to announce her choice of special prosecutors to conduct a broader investigation into pornographic emails exchanged on government computers.”

And in somewhat related coverage, The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania reports that “Northumberland County judge blames AG Kane for loss of senior status.”

“Will the Supreme Court End Affirmative Action? A Preview of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin on the Eve of Oral Argument.” The Cato Institute will be hosting this event, featuring a number of noteworthy panelists, from 4 to 6 p.m. eastern time on Monday, December 7, 2015.

Cato is planning to live-stream video of the event online. As early as the next morning, Cato plans to make the video of the event available online, on-demand.

“Backpage.com wins injunction vs Chicago sheriff over adult ads”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.

My earlier coverage of today’s Seventh Circuit ruling appears here and here.

“Judge, his family rise above shooting, cancer; What a year for this Detroit family: Dad was shot, Mom got breast cancer. They should be bitter this week, right? Wrong. The’re grateful, and maybe the rest of us could learn from them.” Bill Laitner had this post-Thanksgiving article in The Detroit Free Press.

“US court rejects Virginia death row inmate’s appeal”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today.

“FAN 86.2 (First Amendment News) ‘Vulgar is not violent’ — Posner enjoins sheriff in online classified advertising case”: Ronald K.L. Collins has this post at “Concurring Opinions.”

My earlier coverage of today’s Seventh Circuit opinion can be accessed here.

“High court’s election-year lineup rich in high-profile cases”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Clarifying what’s at stake in al Bahlul (short answer: judge and jury) . . . and what’s not.” Marty Lederman has this post today at “Just Security.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit‘s en banc oral argument in the case is scheduled to occur tomorrow.

“Focus Turns to Judge in Latest Appeal of Net Neutrality Rules; David Tatel, who shot down two previous versions of the rule, will help decide the latest challenge”: John McKinnon has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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

Seventh Circuit issues ruling in Backpage.com v. Dart: Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner issued this opinion today on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Given the panel’s earlier order issued the very next business day after oral argument (discussed in this earlier post), the outcome of today’s ruling should not come as any surprise.

“Supreme Court lets stand Texas law limiting online advice from veterinarians about sick pets”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this news update.

And Reuters reports that “U.S. top court rejects Texas veterinarian’s pet-care advice case.”

“Both parties agree: ‘We are one justice away.'” Steve Benen of msnbc.com has this report today.

“Color Blind Constitution: A half-century after Brown v. Board, should the Supreme Court still be in the business of integrating public schools and universities?” Slate has posted online today the new installment of its “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick.

The home page of the U.S. Supreme Court’s website now includes a page title: Oh, the excitement you missed if you didn’t visit “How Appealing” over the long Thanksgiving weekend (see here, here, and here).

One reader who features the initials “CISSP, ISSAP, CISM” after his name in his email signature — which I think has something to do with advanced tech knowledge — emailed me late on Thanksgiving night to argue that “the Supreme Court may actually be ahead of the game here” in not having implemented (as of that moment) a page title for the Court’s home page.

My favorite reaction, however, arrived via Twitter from Timothy Cornell, who observed: “I don’t think a home page reflects the original intent of the Framers.”

“What’s Next in the Hawaii Election Case Whose Vote Counting Justice Kennedy Enjoined Friday?” Rick Hasen has this post today at his “Election Law Blog.”

“FAN 86.1 (First Amendment News) Court Denies Review in Occupational-Speech Case”: Ronald K.L. Collins has this post today at “Concurring Opinions.”

I am looking forward to saying hello to Collins at this Thursday’s “Justice and Journalism” program at the Newseum.

“After Words with Roberta Kaplan: Roberta Kaplan talked about her book Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA.” You can view the video of this recent C-SPAN broadcast, in which Zoe Tillman of The National Law Journal interviews Kaplan, at this link.

I am looking forward to saying hello to Tillman at this Thursday’s “Justice and Journalism” program at the Newseum.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases. The Court did, however, call for the views of the Solicitor General in one case.

In Rapelje v. Blackston, No. 15-161, Justice Antonin Scalia issued a dissent, in which Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito, Jr. joined, from the denial of certiorari. The dissent concludes, “The Sixth Circuit seems to have acquired a taste for disregarding AEDPA. We should grant certiorari to discourage this appetite.”

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Justices rebuff Texas veterinarian who gave advice online“; “High court won’t review Michigan murder case“; “High court rejects challenge to Hawaii campaign finance laws“; “High court rejects Mexican states’ lawsuit over Gulf spill“: and “High court rejects fee dispute in Texas redistricting case.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court rejects Covidien bid to restore patent verdict against Ethicon.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court seeks U.S. views on cross-border shooting.”

“When the mother is a soldier: Supreme Court needs to correct a 1950 ruling resulting in military gender discrimination.” Tony Mauro has this essay online at USA Today.

“Scalia’s Zingers Good Copy in Slow News Month”: Kenneth Jost had this post yesterday at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

“Argument preview: States’ legal immunity at stake.” Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Supreme Court should learn from Prop. 209 mistake”: The Fresno Bee has an editorial that begins, “It has been nearly 20 years since California voters banned affirmative action in college admissions. Campus diversity here has never recovered from the chain saw that was Proposition 209.”

“Should state Supreme Court tell Klan to clean the road or hit the road?” Columnist Joe Hotchkiss of The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle has this essay.

“Dickson reflects on judges, judging, growing up in Hobart”: In today’s edition of The Times of Munster, Indiana, Dan Carden has a front page article that begins, “Indiana Supreme Court Justice Brent Dickson, a Hobart native, announced Nov. 9 he will retire from the state’s high court early next year, a few months before he otherwise would hit the mandatory retirement age of 75.”

“The Execution of Joseph Wood: An execution of a man in Arizona with a new cocktail of drugs was supposed to take about 10 minutes; It took almost two hours, the longest execution in U.S. history.” Bill Whitaker had this segment (transcript) on this evening’s broadcast of the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”

You can view the video of the segment by clicking here.

“Battling the modern American administrative state”: In today’s edition of The Washington Post, columnist George F. Will has an op-ed that begins, “As the administrative state distorts the United States’ constitutional architecture, Clarence Thomas becomes America’s indispensable constitutionalist.”

“Turnover on state Supreme Court isn’t expected to overturn rulings”: The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina has an article that begins, “The retirement of two South Carolina Supreme Court justices by the end of next year isn’t expected to result in immediate or drastic changes in its rulings, primarily because of the importance of legal precedent.”

“Abortion clinic owner mulls Supreme Court case impact”: The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi has a news update that begins, “The fate of Mississippi’s lone abortion provider hangs in the balance of the first Supreme Court case in decades to address restrictions on abortion clinics.”

“Judge to hear Boston Marathon bomber’s request for new trial”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Stephen Breyer, Justice for the Global Age”: Albert R. Hunt has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.