“High court weighs power of state courts in bitter tax fight”: Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has this report.

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Franchise Tax Bd. of Cal. v. Hyatt, No. 14-1175.

“Is This The Biggest Bluebook Error Of Them All?” David Lat has this post today at “Above the Law.”

Divided Eighth Circuit panel overturns injunction against drug testing of students at Linn State Technical College: You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

“Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to Assault Weapons Ban in Chicago Suburb”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news update.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Supreme Court won’t review laws banning assault weapons.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Supreme Court lets local ban on assault weapons stand.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to city’s assault weapons ban.”

And Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Lets Stand Local Law Banning Semiautomatic Guns; Court declines to take up appeal on Highland Park, Ill., ban.”

“Dollar General Tries to Shake Up Tribal Law”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Dollar General Corp. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, No. 13-1496.

“Same-sex adoption case challenges what it means to be parent”: The Associated Press has this report.

“More on Justice Scalia: A Reply to Two Critics.” Law professor Eric J. Segall and Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner have this blog post today at “Dorf on Law.”

The posts to which they are responding can be accessed here and here.

And today at “Bench Memos,” Ed Whelan has a surreply titled “Feeble Posner/Segall Response.”

“Supreme Court seems to favor limits on tribal court lawsuits”: The Associated Press has this report.

Update: In other coverage, Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices hostile to tribal court authority in molestation case.”

“Justice Kagan on Textualism’s Success”: Richard M. Re has this post today at “PrawfsBlawg.”

“Yale Finds Error in Legal Stylebook: Harvard Did Not Create It.” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Why Has The Death Penalty Grown Increasingly Rare?” Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“Cliff Sloan Elected Chair of ACS Board of Directors”: The American Constitution Society issued this news release today.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court today did not grant review in any new cases.

Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissent, in which Justice Antonin Scalia joined, from the denial of certiorari in Friedman v. City of Highland Park, Illinois, No. 15-133.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Justices reject challenge to local assault weapons ban” and “Justices rejects appeal of Minnesota priest.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court rejects challenge to assault weapon ban.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Gun Advocates Rejected by U.S. High Court on Assault Weapons.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court leaves intact an assault weapon ban.”

“More calls for Justice Eakin to resign”: Craig R. McCoy, Angela Couloumbis, and Linda Loyd have this front page article in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

And William Bender of The Philadelphia Daily News has an article headlined “Justice Eakin refuses Gov. Wolf’s call to resign, Porngate flares.”

“Up Next at the Supreme Court: A Challenge to Equality for All Americans; A legal mastermind seeks to gut affirmative action and voting rights by rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment.” David H. Gans has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Will Black Lives Matter for Justices?” Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

“Indian law faces challenge as sex assault case heads to high court”: The Sante Fe New Mexican has this report.

Online at The Atlantic, law professor Garrett Epps has an essay titled “Who Can Tribal Courts Try? The U.S. Supreme Court weighs which disputes America’s Indian tribal courts can adjudicate.”

At Indian Country Today, Peter d’Errico has an essay titled “The Dollar General Case: Anti-Indians Play Hardball, Indians Play Softball.”

And online at The Guardian (UK), Stephen Pevar has an essay titled “Native Americans’ sovereignty is at risk, and the high court must help save it; Dollar General Corporation v Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians goes before the US supreme court Monday, and tribal ability to prosecute crimes is in peril.”

“Latino Clout Turns on Supreme Court View of One-Person-One-Vote”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Hispanic voter clout imperiled by Texas case before U.S. top court.”

“Is Gollum Good or Evil? Jail Term in Turkey Hinges on Answer.” Katie Rogers had this article in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Supreme Court Revisits University of Texas Race-in-Admissions Case; History suggests the justices are like to pare back the use of affirmative action”: Jess Bravin and Douglas Belkin will have this article in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Joan Biskupic of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court revisits affirmative action in university admissions.”

And Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices look anew at affirmative action in Texas.”

“Supreme Court Justice Eakin has no plans to resign amid email controversy”: The Associated Press has this report.

“UT’s use of race in admissions at stake in Supreme Court arguments”: Ralph K.M. Haurwitz has this front page article in today’s edition of The Austin American-Statesman.

And in related coverage, Haurwitz also has an article headlined “Admissions, voting cases at Supreme Court engineered by UT alumnus.”

“A conservative quandary in affirmative action case Fisher vs. Texas”: Law professor Eric J. Segall has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

And in today’s edition of The Washington Post, Sherrilyn Ifill has an op-ed titled “To fight racial isolation on campus, start with admissions.”

“The View Of The Nai Aupuni Election From Washington, D.C.” Robert H. Thomas has this post today at his inversecondemnation.com blog.

“The American Disconnection with the Supreme Court”: Emma Axelrod has this essay online at the Brown Political Review.

The second to last paragraph of the essay criticizes the U.S. Supreme Court for not making its opinions readily available online. Perhaps a bit more online sleuthing would have uncovered the following three pages on the Court’s website: here, here, and here.

Then again, the opinions of college students can often be unreliable at best (the second half of my 1984 review of the film “Police Academy” as published in The Columbia Spectator can be accessed here).

“Schumm’s father testified in landmark case on same-sex adoption; K-State professor Walter Schumm faced questions about links to leader of anti-gay research institute”: Celia Llopis-Jepsen has this front page article in today’s edition of The Topeka Capital-Journal.

“‘Showdown’: A look at Thurgood Marshall’s historic rise to the Supreme Court.” Pa. Superior Court Judge David Wecht (now a Pa. Supreme Court Justice-elect) has this review of Wil Haygood’s new book, “Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America” in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“D.C. Notes: U.S. Supreme Court case pits Oklahoma AG against state’s Five Tribes.” Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has this report.

“‘Force of nature,’ SC Supreme Court chief Jean Toal strode through history”: The State of Columbia, South Carolina has this report.

“Wolf calls for Eakin to resign”: In today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Craig R. McCoy, Mark Fazlollah, and Angela Couloumbis have a front page article that begins, “Gov. Wolf called on Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin to resign Saturday, hours after The Inquirer reported that the justice was part of a ploy to install a new appointee to the judicial disciplinary tribunal expected to decide his fate in the pornographic email scandal.”

And Charles Thompson of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania reports that “Gov. Tom Wolf calls for Supreme Court Justice Eakin’s resignation after report highlights judicial discipline panel controversy.”

“3 armed men invade home of federal judge and husband, Stan Chesley”: Cameron Knight, Patrick Brennan, Sharon Coolidge, and Dan Horn of The Cincinnati Enquirer have this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “3 arrested after federal judge robbed at gunpoint at home.”

“Supreme Court rejects emergency appeal from California antiabortion group”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“The Death Penalty in Texas and a Conflict of Interest”: Lincoln Caplan has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Judge’s FilmOn Opinion Unsealed: ‘Congress Did Not Consider the Internet in 1976’; A dispute over TV streaming illustrates how judges differ in their approaches to new technologies”: Eriq Gardner recently had this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

Therein, Gardner writes, “Given that both cases are going up on appeal with totally opposing conclusions as to how to fit new technology under old legal standards, it is worth highlighting the primary difference in the judges’ opinions.”

“US Supreme Court to hear case pitting Nevada against California”: Sandra Chereb of The Las Vegas Review-Journal has an article that begins, “A Las Vegas man’s decades-long fight with California’s tax man heads to the U.S. Supreme Court for a second time Monday, with dozens of states anxiously awaiting the outcome.”