“Court Backs Harvard in Plagiarism Challenge”: Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed has a post that begins, “Harvard University did not defame or breach a contract with a former law school student when it noted a plagiarism finding on her transcript, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.”

You can access Monday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit at this link.

“Cruz cites ‘long historical precedent’ of SCOTUS vacancies, lays ground for potential fight”: Eugene Scott and Ted Barrett of CNN.com have this report.

“Antonin Scalia, Disciple of the Word”: Ed Whelan has this essay online today at National Review.

“Lawyer Accuses Justice Thomas of Groping Her at Party in 1999”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Why Bill Gates is trying to change Washington’s Supreme Court”: Reid Wilson of The Hill has an article that begins, “Washington State Supreme Court Justice Charlie Wiggins spent 10 months raising a little over $200,000 for his reelection campaign. On Oct. 17, a single donor — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates — wrote a $200,000 check to a political action committee aiming to boot Wiggins from office.”

“Alaska Lawyer Accuses Justice Thomas of Groping Her at 1999 Dinner Event; Woman said she was motivated to tell story after seeing other women speak up about alleged assaults or inappropriate behavior by influential men”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Federal court asked to invalidate Pa. judge-retirement vote”: Michaelle Bond of The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article that begins, “Two former Supreme Court chief justices and a prominent Philadelphia lawyer are asking a federal court to declare a ballot question extending state judges’ retirement age unconstitutional and any votes cast on it invalid.”

“9th Circuit to corporations: Once you open your mouth, you can’t lie.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Ted Cruz’s dangerous and offensive new threat; Mr. Shutdown threatens to shut down the Supreme Court”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online today at ThinkProgress.

“Eight Is Not Enough: Senate Republicans believe the Supreme Court will be just fine permanently operating one justice down; Here’s how John Roberts can talk sense into them.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online today at Slate.

“Ted Cruz’s Supreme Court remark draws White House criticism”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Lawyer says Justice Thomas groped her in 1999; he denies it”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Lawyer says U.S. Supreme Justice Thomas groped her in 1999.”

“Meet the Florist Sued Over Refusing a Same-Sex Wedding Order”: Patrick Gregory of Bloomberg BNA has this report.

“Republicans at war over Supreme Court; Senate Republicans are girding for a brutal conflict over how to handle the lingering Supreme Court vacancy”: Burgess Everett of Politico.com has a report that begins, “Senate Republicans are choosing sides ahead of a brutal conflict over how to handle the lingering Supreme Court vacancy, with Jeff Flake firing back Thursday at a suggestion by Ted Cruz that the party could indefinitely block any nominee from Hillary Clinton.”

“Narrowing Down Clinton’s Choices For Supreme Court Nominee”: Adam Feldman recently had this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“This Could Be The Beginning Of The End Of The Supreme Court As We Know It; Conservatives lay the groundwork for blocking all of Hillary Clinton’s nominees”: Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has this report.

“Supreme Court braces for another term with only 8 justices”: Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this post online today at ABA Journal.

“It’s the Supreme Court, not the Senate, that needs to do its job right now”: Law professor Eric J. Segall has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

SCOTUSDaily interviews BuzzFeed’s Chris Geidner: You can read the interview at this link.

“Lee v. Tam: Offensive Trademarks at the Supreme Court: Speech Rights and Government Prerogative.” Erica Goldberg has this post — the first in a series — at her “In a Crowded Theater” blog.

“On the Web, Cults of Personality for Ginsburg, Thomas”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

“Are copyright claims stifling free speech on the Internet?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“The Senate Should Refuse To Confirm All Of Hillary Clinton’s Judicial Nominees; As a matter of constitutional law, the Senate is fully within its powers to let the Supreme Court literally die out”: Ilya Shapiro has this essay online at the Federalist.

“Forced Out (Constitutionally) for Facebook Comments; Federal appeals court rules that Central Lakes College acted legally when it kicked a student out of a nursing program for comments deemed unprofessional and threatening”: Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed has this report.

Steven Nelson of U.S. News & World Report has an article headlined “Federal Court Upholds College Punishment for Off-Campus Facebook Posts Said to Violate Vague Standards; ‘A decision like this opens the door,’ free speech advocate warns.”

And at “On Brief: Iowa’s Appellate Blog,” Ryan Leemkuil has a post titled “Eighth Circuit: Your Facebook post could get you kicked out of school.”

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

“Justice Thomas Is A Good Man”: Carrie Severino has this post at National Review’s “Bench Memos” blog.

“Content Industry Gets Favored Interpretation of ‘Repeat Infringers’ in MP3Tunes Appeal; MP3Tunes and its founder Michael Robertson can’t escape a determination of owing tens of millions of dollars to record labels and music publishers”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “U.S. court rules for music companies in MP3tunes copyright case.”

And Joe Mullin of Ars Technica has an article headlined “Things look even worse for MP3tunes founder after loss on appeal; Judges: mp3tunes founder ‘acted in a manner intended to promote infringement.’”

You can access Tuesday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

“Young Scholar, Now Lawyer, Says Clarence Thomas Groped Her in 1999”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Ex-Justice John Paul Stevens coming home for World Series”: Jason Meisner has this front page article in today’s edition of The Chicago Tribune.

“The Death Penalty, Nearing Its End”: This editorial appeared in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Why Merrick Garland should keep hoping”: Joan Biskupic of CNN,com has this report.

“Thomas criticizes broken confirmation process for high court”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

And Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Justice Thomas Laments a Washington That’s ‘Broken in Some Ways.’”

“View from bench: Former Supreme Court justice roots for Cubs.” Ben Walker of The Associated Press has this report.

“In ballot selfie battle, free speech beats fear of voter fraud”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“The Corrosive Election and the New Abnormal”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online today at The New York Times.