“The Reproductive Rights Rollback of 2015”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Ricketts gets second appointee to Supreme Court early in 2016, with more potential retirees ahead”: Joe Duggan has this article in today’s edition of The Omaha World-Herald.

“At Supreme Court, Lone Star State stands apart”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Chief Justice Roberts Made ‘Human Error’ In Overlooking Conflict Of Interest; The head of the Supreme Court inadvertently participated in a case involving a company where he had a significant financial stake”: Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has this report.

“Tinkering with the Tax Court”: Daniel Hemel (with an assist from Will Baude) had this post yesterday at “The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog.”

“Blind justice? In Pennsylvania, that would help.” Montgomery Media has posted this editorial online today. The editorial concludes, “A good start would be for Justice Eakin to do what former Justice Seamus McCaffery at least had the decency — if you can use that word in connection with this case — to do. He should step aside.”

And in related coverage, in today’s national edition of The New York Times, Michael Wines has a front page article headlined “Scandal’s Web Trips Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.”

“A new test on Hawaii’s future?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

Ninth Circuit dismisses appeal asserting Fourth Amendment challenge to the mass interception, copying, and searching of Internet communications because the district court’s FRCP 54(b) certification wasn’t proper: You can access today’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Many of the documents filed in the case can be accessed via this link.

“Why the 9/11 attack case grinds on so slowly at Guantanamo”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Doctors’ Right to Try to Convert Gun Owners, But Not Gays”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“Appeals court refuses to unfreeze Wyly relatives’ assets”: Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“Appeals court: Airline pilots can’t ride share like Uber.” Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

“The New Attack on Hispanic Voting Rights: After the Supreme Court decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act, tactics to suppress minority voting are flourishing — especially in states where Hispanic voters are reshaping the electorate.” Jim Rutenberg will have this article in this upcoming Sunday’s edition of The New York Times Magazine.

“Eakin is unfit to judge: Did views expressed in offensive emails color his rulings?” Law professor David S. Cohen has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“U.S. Chief Justice Roberts Overlooked Stock Conflict in Case”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Transgender Arkansas inmate denied right to sue prison — court”: Reuters has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Arkansas inmate who performed castration loses court appeal.”

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.

“Is the Solicitor General Playing a Shell Game With the Supreme Court Over Johnson Retroactivity?” Steve Vladeck has this post at “PrawfsBlawg.”

“Rhetoric and Law: The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer.” Lincoln Caplan has this cover story in the January-February 2016 issue of Harvard Magazine.

“Britain’s Supreme Court says targeting young black men for stop-and-search ‘benefits them’; Judges back random search powers as legal challenge brought by black mother is dismissed”: Adam Barnett of The Independent (UK) has this report.

And the Press Association (UK) reports that “Supreme court affirms random stop-and-search; Top UK court says Public Order Act powers, used to tackle gun crime and gangs, deter police bias and will save lives.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom at this link.

“Liberals move controversial anti-communism monument away from Supreme Court”: The Toronto Globe and Mail has this report.

“Alabama lesbian mother gets support in fight before U.S. Supreme Court”: Kent Faulk of The Birmingham News has this report.

“Obama admin weighs in on legalized marijuana at the Supreme Court”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this unfortunately-titled report.

Programming note: This morning, I will be visiting an appellate client who is incarcerated in federal prison. As a result, additional posts will appear here this afternoon.

“Content-based restriction on doctors’ speech to patients about guns passes ‘strict scrutiny'”: Eugene Volokh has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

His post concludes, “The panel majority opinion, then, is dangerous — indeed, more dangerous than the earlier opinions in this case . . . .”

My earlier coverage of Monday’s Eleventh Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“California Supreme Court to decide how class action lawyers should be paid”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

“Obama Administration Urges Dismissal of Challenge to Colorado Pot Law; Nebraska, Oklahoma officials say legalization has increased drug crimes in their states”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Ricardo Baca of The Cannabist, a publication of The Denver Post, reports that “Top fed lawyer urges SCOTUS to not hear Colorado marijuana lawsuit.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Obama admin. urges high court to reject marijuana lawsuit.”

Via Josh Blackman, you can access the amicus brief of the United States at this link.

“In reply to ethics charges, Supreme Court justice says emails were never meant to be public”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice who may be suspended over objectionable emails did not bring the judgeship into disrepute because the ‘male banter’ he exchanged with friends was never intended to be made public, his lawyers said Wednesday.”

Update: You can access the documents filed in the case, including Justice J. Michael Eakin’s answer to the complaint filed yesterday, via this link.

“As Oklahoma marks century of executions, future of death penalty uncertain”: Graham Lee Brewer of The Oklahoman has this report.

“A do-over on D.C. gun law”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Stephanos Bibas explains the work of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic”: Penn Law has posted online this news release. And this related video is available online at YouTube.

“Stephen Glass is still retracting his fabricated stories — 18 years later”: Columnist Michael Hiltzik had this essay online yesterday at The Los Angeles Times.

“Constitutional Check: Will the Supreme Court clarify birthright citizenship?” Lyle Denniston had this post yesterday at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Eakin should step down in the wake of email scandal”: Today’s edition of The Reading (Pa.) Eagle contains an editorial that begins, “Two months ago, when the state Judicial Conduct Board was investigating accusations that state Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin sent and received raunchy, racist and sexist emails, we suggested that he take a leave of absence until the matter was resolved. Now, after the board charged Eakin with ethics violations as a result of those emails, we call for his resignation.”

“Hawaiian self-governance uncertain after election cancelled”: The Associated Press has this report today.

“Is the Texas Ten Percent Plan ‘Race Neutral’?” Law professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay today at Justia.com’s Verdict.

Today at “Dorf on Law,” he has a related post titled “Was Justice Scalia’s Discussion of ‘Lesser Schools’ Racist?”

And yesterday at The Huffington Post, law professor Geoffrey R. Stone had a blog entry titled “Justice Scalia, Affirmative Action and the Perils of Oral Argument.”