“Supreme Wordsmith: Antonin Scalia’s former law clerk remembers the justice for his pen as much as his gavel.” Evan Young has this essay in the current issue of Duke Magazine.

“Why We Don’t Need a Ninth Supreme Court Justice: The hand-wringers are wrong — an evenly split Supreme Court would end a narrow majority imposing its out-of-step will and would be good for the country.” Law professor Eric Segall has this essay online today at The Daily Beast.

“The high court struck down D.C.’s gun ban eight years ago, but the fight continues”: Ann E. Marimow has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“i-Italy interviews Justice Samuel A. Alito”: You can access the video on YouTube at this link.

“Leaked documents reveal secretive influence of corporate cash on politics; Sealed Wisconsin court documents from Scott Walker investigation expose extent of corporate influence on democratic process rarely seen by the public”: Ed Pilkington of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

“Patent Venue at the Supreme Court: Correcting a 26 Year Old Legal Error.” Dennis Crouch has this post today at his “Patently-O” blog.

“ABC’s 20/20 to feature Markel murder”: The Tallahassee Democrat has a report that begins, “ABC’s news magazine ’20/20′ will broadcast an hour-long program on the murder of Florida State law professor Dan Markel at 10 p.m. Friday.”

A preview of this Friday’s broadcast — appearing with the headline “How Police Tracked Down and Caught 2 Suspected Hit Men in FSU Professor Murder Case” — already appears at the program’s web site.

“Lip-syncing in video games can be patented, U.S. court says”: Susan Decker of Bloomberg News has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued yesterday.

And in other coverage, at the “Patently-O” blog, Dennis Crouch has a post titled “Step-One: Don’t Assume an Abstract Idea.”

“Eleventh CIrcuit judges discuss guidelines and vagueness at great length after denying en banc review in Matchett“: Douglas A. Berman has this post at his “Sentencing Law and Policy” blog discussing an order denying rehearing en banc, accompanied by separate opinions concurring and dissenting, that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued yesterday.