“U.S. Supreme Court will hear Kansas sex offender case”: Tony Rizzo has this front page article in today’s edition of The Kansas City Star.

“Roberts on Supreme Court’s Changing Face (Beards Optional)”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“A Federal Judge And His Twitter Account: A Cautionary Tale.” David Lat has this post at “Above the Law” about a case now pending on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

“At End of Sheldon Silver’s Corruption Trial, the ‘Law Guys’ Take Over”: Benjamin Weiser has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“NFL ‘Deflategate’ appeal to be heard March 3, after Super Bowl”: Reuters has this report.

“Former porn star loses appeal in PB school lawsuit”: Scott Travis of The South Florida Sun Sentinel has this news update.

Circuit Judge William H. Pryor, Jr. issued this ruling today on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

“Moose hunter’s unlikely path to the Supreme Court”: Robin Bravender of Greenwire has this report.

“Wisconsin abortion admitting privileges law unconstitutional, court affirms”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this news update.

The Wisconsin State Journal has a news update headlined “Appeals court backs rejection of abortion doctor admitting law.”

The Associated Press reports that “Federal court rules Wisconsin abortion law unconstitutional.”

And Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court rules against Wisconsin abortion doctor law.”

Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote the majority opinion that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today.

In the December 2015 issue of ABA Journal magazine: Mark Walsh has an article headlined “Redistricting case brings partisan politics, immigration and federalism before SCOTUS.”

Stephanie Francis Ward has an article headlined “Supreme Court ruling could spark more unintentional-discrimination cases.”

The issue contains the “The 9th Annual Blawg 100” and the “2015 Blawg 100 Hall of Fame.” In addition, Molly McDonough has an article addressing “What is the state of the legal blogosphere?” while Stephanie Francis Ward reports that “‘Umpire’ blog is shuttered, but its judge-author is staying in the game.”

And this month’s installmenf of Bryan A. Garner’s “On Words” column is titled “30 more words to test your pronunciation skills.”

“Judicial Gobbledygook: The Readability of Supreme Court Writing.” Ryan Whalen has this essay at The Yale Law Journal Forum.

“Texas seeking delay in Supreme Court immigration case”: The Associated Press has this report.

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Texas move may delay U.S. Supreme Court immigration case review.”

And Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Obama immigration legacy could hang on 30-day extension.”

You can view the extension request at this link (via Josh Blackman).

“U.S. drops appeal of ex-Madoff employees’ sentences”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

And Bloomberg News reports that “Madoff Aides Won’t Face Longer Terms as U.S. Drops Appeal.”

“Police Get ‘Super Powers’ From High Court”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his “Jost on Justice” blog.

The rest of us, apparently, will need to rely on the usual methods for attaining super powers.

“Venue owners appeal fine for denying lesbian couple wedding”: The Associated Press has this report.

Access the Second Circuit ruling in New York Times Co. v. USDOJ unsealed today: At this link. The opinion was issued under seal on October 22, 2015 and reissued in unsealed form today.

Last week’s Third Circuit oral argument audio: On Thursday of last week, two cases in which I was involved were argued before the same three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Because the audio from these oral arguments is now available online, I am providing links to those arguments.

In the case captioned In re: National Football League Players Concussion Injury Litigation — a case in which I argued for approximately two minutes on behalf of two objectors but did not participate in the briefing of — you can access the oral argument audio via this link (52.5 MB mp3 audio file).

And in the case captioned In re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation — a case in which I participated in the briefing but which my client’s lead trial counsel did an excellent job of arguing on appeal — you can access the oral argument audio via this link (11.8 MB mp3 audio file).

The second of these two oral arguments was the panel’s final oral argument of the day. The presiding judge — Circuit Judge Thomas L. Ambro — can be heard profusely apologizing for having to actually enforce the red light indicator because one of his colleagues on the panel had an important conference call scheduled to begin promptly at 12:30 p.m., thereby establishing Judge Ambro as a true successor to the late Third Circuit Judge Edward R. Becker (access one of among many quite moving tributes here) when it comes to ordinarily ignoring oral argument time limits.

“Roberts recalls another chief justice and reveals a little about himself”: Robert Barnes has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.