“Appeals court halts order NSA says would shutter surveillance program”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post.

“Supreme Court Hears Tyson Foods Class-Action Labor Case”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news update.

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Justices tilt toward workers in dressing time fight.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Likely to Uphold Wage Suit Against Tyson Foods; Tyson case is part of business push to further rein in class-actions.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices skeptical of Tyson Foods in class-action case.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices skeptical toward Tyson class action appeal.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Tyson Gets Skepticism at High Court on Class Action Award.”

At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument analysis: Big test of class action — maybe not so big.”

And at Forbes.com, Daniel Fisher has a post titled “Class-Action Challenge Fizzles At Supreme Court As Justices Debate Minutiae.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, No. 14-1146.

“Obama appeals to Supreme Court to save his immigration plan”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Obama administration will ask the Supreme Court to save the president’s plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, after lower courts blocked it.”

“Shirley Abrahamson drops legal effort to regain chief justice post”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.