“Second Circuit Closes Book on Drone Disclosures”: Adam Klasfeld of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“State Supreme Court puts measure to speed up executions on hold”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Alexei Koseff of The Sacramento Bee reports that “California Supreme Court blocks new law to speed up death penalty.”

The Associated Press reports that “California Supreme Court halts death penalty measure.”

And at the “At the Lectern” blog, David Ettinger has a post titled “Proposition 66 stayed.”

“Key question of Slants case at SCOTUS: Is trademark registration speech? If so, whose?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.

“Trump SCOTUS Short-Lister Tom Lee: Five Things to Know.” Patrick Gregory of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“South Carolina will debate bill to block porn on new computers; Citizens who wanted to opt out of porn filter would have to pay $20 fee”: Joe Mullin of Ars Technica has this report.

“Cruz: Give Clarence Thomas a place in the African-American museum.” Eugene Scott of CNN.com has an article that begins, “Sen. Ted Cruz says the new African-American museum honoring black history has made ‘a mistake’ by not featuring Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.”

“New York Appeals Court Rules No Public Performance Rights in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings; In a big victory for SiriusXM and a major setback for owners of older sound recordings, a lower court’s decision is reversed”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter about a ruling that the Court of Appeals of New York — that state’s highest court — issued today on certified question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

And in other coverage, Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “Sirius XM wins New York appeal over older songs.”

“Dozens Of Obama’s Judicial Nominees, Including Historic Picks, Won’t Make It Onto The Bench; Fifty-two of President Obama’s judicial nominees didn’t get a vote in the Senate; They include lawyers and judges who would have added new diversity to the federal bench”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“Supreme Court Nominations Will Never Be the Same”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“After Botched Execution, Arizona Agrees To Never Use A Controversial Sedative Again; The state has agreed to stop using midazolam, a drug similar to valium that was linked to several botched executions in recent years; Without the drug, the state has few options on how to go forward with lethal injections”: Chris McDaniel of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“5 ways Trump could reshape environmental law”: Amanda Reilly and Robin Bravender have this report.