“Judge J. Clifford Wallace to Receive the 2016 American Inns of Court A. Sherman Christensen Award”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today.

“Court errs in denying habeas corpus to immigrants”: Law professor Eric M. Freedman has this essay online at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“World War II Leak Case Is a Win for Edward Snowden”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“Federal judge Smith retires during ongoing investigation”: Tommy Witherspoon of The Waco (Tex.) Tribune has an article that begins, “U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr., the subject of a renewed investigation into allegations he made unwanted sexual advances toward women in his chambers, ended his 32-year tenure as federal judge on Monday.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Federal judge in Texas reprimanded for misconduct retires.”

“Merrick Garland Shouldn’t Get His Hopes Up”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“Shorthanded Supreme Court goes back in time”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article that begins, “Three Supreme Court justices came to the nation’s birthplace Monday to re-enact the only reported jury trial in the court’s history, and they added a modern touch: They were a justice short.”

“Fourth Circuit overturns lower court ruling in Rowan prayer case”: Josh Bergeron of The Salisbury (N.C.) Post has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Federal court OKs Christian prayers at county board meetings.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

Back in January 2016, I had two posts (here and here) about the oral argument of this appeal.

“A Worthwhile, Four-Day Appellate CLE Is Coming to Phila.” This month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column appeared in last Tuesday’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

You can view at this link the program for the 2016 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit in Philadelphia. Appellate practitioners who haven’t yet signed-up to attend the 2016 AJEI Summit still have time to do so by registering online via this link.

“San Diego Police Dog Case Heads to Full 9th Circuit”: Courthouse News Service has this report today on an order granting rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued on Friday.

My earlier coverage of a divided three-judge Ninth Circuit panel’s ruling in the case can be accessed here.

“SCOTUS Preferences in Civil Rights Cases”: Adam Feldman has this post today at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Tensions rise over judicial nominees”: Lydia Wheeler of The Hill has this report.

Luke Russert and Mike Brunker of NBC News report that “Judicial Nominee Backlog Still Mired in Partisan Politics.”

And at his “Jost on Justice” blog, Kenneth Jost has a post titled “On Confirming Judges, Senate Just Says No.”

“Making Sense of Modern Pornography: While the Internet has made porn ubiquitous, it has also thrown the industry into severe decline.” Katrina Forrester has this book review essay — which mentions a couple of appellate court rulings — in the September 26, 2016 issue of The New Yorker.

“Redskins, rock band form unusual alliance in trademark fight”: Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has this report.

“Racial Bias Among Jurors at Heart of Supreme Court Case”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Trial judges have discretion to unseal grand jury records — 7th Circuit”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“A Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg”: The University of Notre Dame has posted this video on YouTube.

“Spotlight on Supreme Court as battle over judges’ retirement age”: In today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Angela Couloumbis has a front page article that begins, “By the end of the year, 19 judges statewide could be forced to retire, including the chief justice of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer today also contains an editorial titled “Pa. high court’s retirement age ruling was self-serving.”

And Pa. State Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman (R.-Centre Cty.) has an essay titled “Ballot question on judicial retirements bipartisan, easy to understand.”