“U.S. Supreme Court could decide the fate of Kansas abortion regulations; Regulations in Texas case before the court similar to those in Kansas”: Justin Wingerter of The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report.

“Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s 3 justices-elect appraise its battered image, need for changes”: Peter Jackson of The Associated Press has this report.

“A threat to freedom of speech at the Supreme Court”: Online at The Washington Post, columnist George F. Will has an essay in which he writes, “[o]n Tuesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear such a case from Texas, where it is a crime for a retired veterinarian to share his advice with people seeking it.”

“Supreme Court denies request for new trial in defamation case against Citizens’ Voice”: The Citizens’ Voice of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania has this report.

Yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania consists of a majority opinion and an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

“Federal class-action reform effort courts serious risks”: Daniel Karon has this essay online at The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

“Roberts talks leadership in discussion on Supreme Court”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this report.

And at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog,” Jess Bravin has a post titled “Chief Justice John Roberts on taking on a Democratic President (FDR).” You can freely access the full text of the blog post via Google.

“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: Clerking, D.C. Circuit Edition.” Aaron Nielson has this post today at the Yale Journal on Regulation.

“Appeals court upholds 30-year prison term for Montana woman in newlywed case”: The Billings Gazette has this report.

Reuters reports that “Montana bride who pushed husband off cliff loses appeal.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Court upholds sentence for wife who pushed husband off cliff.”

You can access Thursday’s non-precedential ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Harvard ‘black tape’ vandalism brings law school’s controversial past to fore; Tape placed over portraits of tenured black faculty comes after similar ‘art-action’ by black students attempting to draw attention to school seal’s slavery roots”: The Guardian (UK) has this report today.

And in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times, Jess Bidgood had an article headlined “Tape Found Over Portraits of Black Harvard Professors.”

Access yesterday’s “Adult-Oriented Establishments” ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: You can access yesterday’s ruling, involving a challenge to a portion of the municipal code of Milford, Connecticut, at this link.

“The metadata collection program is constitutional (at least according to Judge Kavanaugh)”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about a concurrence in the denial of an emergency petition for rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued yesterday.