“Appeals Court Asks If Sound Recording Rights Can Be Divested Like Magic Tricks; It’s the 11th Circuit’s turn to wade into the legal fight over the performance of pre-1972 songs”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“Federal appeals court upholds judge’s lowest possible sentence in child-porn case”: Eric Heisig of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report on a ruling that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today.

“Court upholds lawyer couple’s conviction in extortion scheme”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected appeals from former San Antonio husband and wife lawyers convicted nearly a decade ago in an extortion scheme after the wife placed online ads for sex to get back at her cheating husband.”

You can access today’s non-precedential per curiam opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“What Is on Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Mind? The impenetrable Supreme Court justice’s leftward shift and his latest blockbuster of a term.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

“For conservatives, high court’s term was a letdown”: Robert Barnes has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“The Supreme Court is moving left. Here’s why.” William Yeomans has this essay online at Reuters.

“The Mau-Mauing of Justice Kennedy”: Mark Pulliam had this post yesterday at the “Library of Law and Liberty” blog.

“How the two justices from California are moving the Supreme Court to the left”: David G. Savage has this front page article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“The Procedural Issues in the Texas Abortion Case”: Law professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay today at Justia.com’s Verdict.

“All the Greedy Young Abigail Fishers and Me”: Jia Tolentino had this post yesterday at “Jezebel.”

That rare civil case in which a federal appeals court appoints counsel to argue for both opposing parties: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued this decision yesterday.

“Without Scalia, Roles Change for Supreme Court Justices; Alito raises profile as voice for conservatives; Sotomayor becomes liberal counterweight”: Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Second Markel suspect in Leon County”: Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.