“Federal judge rules cross on Lehigh County seal is unconstitutional”: Tom Shortell of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has this report.

And Kurt Bresswein of The Express-Times of Easton, Pennsylvania has an article headlined “Why a federal judge ruled Lehigh County’s seal unconstitutional.”

You can access last Thursday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania at this link (via “Religion Clause“).

“Immigrant detainees should be offered affordable bond for release, 9th Circuit says”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Court eases bail rules for detained immigrants.”

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

“Court backs hovercraft ban in Alaska’s national preserves”: Dan Joling of The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“5th Circuit: Trust government, not juries, to decide if feds have been defrauded.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

In the October 9, 2017 issue of The New Yorker: Jill Lepore has a Comment titled “Flip-Flopping on Free Speech: The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.”

Kelefa Sanneh has a Critic at Large essay titled “The Limits of ‘Diversity’: Where affirmative action was about compensatory justice, diversity is meant to be a shared benefit; But does the rationale carry weight?”

And Rachel Aviv has an article headlined “How the Elderly Lose Their Rights: Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent — and reap a profit from it.”

“2017 Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute Preview”: Georgetown Law has posted this video on YouTube.

“Stage Is Set for Some Drama at Supreme Court; A decision on the constitutionality of political gerrymandering could shake Capitol Hill; Here are some other cases to watch”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View, along with an essay titled “Aging Justices Deserve Better Than a Death Watch; Term limits or a mandatory retirement age would restore some dignity, but would require a constitutional amendment.”

“U.S. top court divided over curbing workers’ class-action suits”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Supreme Court Justices Suggest They’ll Split on Workers’ Class-Action Rights.”

And Josh Gerstein of Politico.com reports that “Supreme Court opens term with fight over worker rights; Court appears to lean toward firms who block joint legal action by employees.”

“Prof. Stephanos Bibas — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“A Republican Justice Settles In as GOP Cheers”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

“Supreme Court kicks off blockbuster term: Cases to watch.” Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this report.

“Justice Antonin Scalia speaks”: CBS Sunday Morning has posted on YouTube this video from yesterday’s broadcast.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases, but the Court did call for the views of the Solicitor General in three cases.

“OT2017 #1: ‘A Very Nice Office.'” You can access today’s new episode of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Ian Samuel and Dan Epps, via this link.

“ISPs want Supreme Court to kill Title II net neutrality rules now and forever; FCC may soon revoke net neutrality rules, but ISPs want immunity from regulation”: Jon Brodkin of Ars Technica has this report.

“‘Hamilton’ Signature Clouds Trump Emoluments Clause Case”: Patrick L. Gregory of Bloomberg BNA has this report.

“Gerrymandering, a Tradition as Old as the Republic, Faces a Reckoning; Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on whether contorted voting maps drawn by both parties to cement power have finally gone too far”: Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

On yesterday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court Prepares To Hear Gerrymandering Case.”

And on yesterday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday,” Shawn Johnson had an audio segment titled “How Redistricting Changed Wisconsin Politics.”