“Senate confirms Katsas to federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.” Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Senators Spar Over ‘Blue Slips’ at Judicial Nomination Hearing”: Tim Ryan of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Your phone knows where you’ve been, and the government wants to know too”: Law professors Matthew B. Kugler and Sarah O. Schrup have this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

Access the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Carpenter v. United States, No. 16-402: At this link.

“U.S. Supreme Court weighs major digital privacy case”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this updated report.

“The Composition of the Courts of Appeals Is Not a Function of Jimmy Carter’s, Harry Reid’s, or Chuck Schumer’s ‘Court-Packing'”: Asher Steinberg has this post at his blog, “The Narrowest Grounds.”

“Justice Don Willett says he successfully performed Heimlich maneuver at Austin Chick-fil-A”: Katie Hall of The Austin American-Statesman has this report.

“Everyone knows panel assignments are random, and everyone is wrong”: Matthew Stiegler has this post at his “CA3blog.”

“Sen. John Kennedy votes against Trump judge nominee — and blasts another as ’embarrassing'”: Bryn Stole of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has this report.

“Supreme Court Considers Cellphones And Digital Privacy”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

And Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com reports that “Supreme Court takes on major Fourth Amendment case.”

View online this morning’s U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Fifth Circuit nominee Kyle Duncan and Eighth Circuit nominee David R. Stras: Via this link. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. eastern time.

“Louisiana GOP Sen. Kennedy opposes controversial Trump judicial nominee”: Seung Min Kim of Politico.com has this report.

“Panel Assignment in the Federal Courts of Appeals”: Law professor Marin K. Levy has posted this interesting and important article on SSRN.

“U.S. court revives lawsuit by mom of state trooper accidentally killed by firearms instructor”: Matt Miller of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today.

“Gay pride T-shirt case will be heard by Kentucky Supreme Court”: Thomas Novelly of The Louisville Courier-Journal has this report.

And Beth Musgrave of The Lexington Herald-Leader has an article headlined “Did T-shirt company violate city’s fairness ordinance? State’s high court to decide.”

“Supreme Court to Weigh Warrantless Cellphone Data Searches; Digital privacy, specifically location data, at center of Carpenter v. U.S. case”: Jess Bravin and
Ryan Knutson of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Justices Seem Ready to Limit Whistle-Blower Protections”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court appears set to limit protections for company whistleblowers.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court may limit Wall Street whistleblowers.”

Dave Michaels of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Questions Whether Dodd-Frank Protects All Whistleblowers; Justices from conservative and liberal blocs express skepticism that 2010 law shields people who never reported wrongdoing to SEC.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “U.S. Supreme Court Signals It Will Trim Whistle-Blower Protections.”

Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court wary about widening whistleblower protections.”

And Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court wrestles with whistleblower protection issue.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers, No. 16-1276.

“Pa. Supreme Court weighing if rapper’s words were a crime or protected free speech”: Liz Navratil of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has this report.

“Senate gives Trump another victory on judges”: Kevin Freking of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Senate on Tuesday confirmed one of President Donald Trump’s legal advisers to serve on what is often described as America’s second highest court. The vote to confirm Gregory Katsas, 53, of Virginia, was 50-48.”

You can access the official U.S. Senate roll call vote tally at this link.

“The Christian Legal Army Behind ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’: A special investigation into the rise of Alliance Defending Freedom.” Sarah Posner has this article online at The Nation.

“Louisiana nominee for federal appeals court to get hearing Wednesday; Sen. Kennedy could be key vote”: Bryn Stole has this front page article in today’s edition of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“Lawyer in CFPB Fight Is Frequent Trump Foe”: Liz Crampton of Bloomberg BNA has this report.

“Is the right to discriminate in the Constitution? The answer’s a piece of cake.” Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online at The Sacramento Bee.

“Supreme Court confronts how technology impacts U.S. notion of privacy”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“For second time this year, Supreme Court suspends wrong guy”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

Three-judge Sixth Circuit panel considers unmasking an anonymous blogger: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

“Unanimous En Banc DC Circuit Rejects Challenge to Separate Federal Campaign Contribution Limits in Primary and General Election Campaigns”: Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog” about an en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

“Frosted Floodgates: A Supreme Court ruling in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop would destroy discrimination law.” David Glasgow and law professor Kenji Yoshino have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“More on Court-Packing: The Idaho Workaround.” Richard Primus has this post at the “Balkinization” blog.

And at his “Shugerblog,” Jed Shugerman has a post titled “The Conservative Court-Packing Plan and the Facts about their Fictional ‘Caseload Crisis.’”

“Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Mourns Passing of Judge Harry Pregerson”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today.

“Detroiter’s case sparks Supreme Court privacy battle”: In today’s edition of The Detroit News, Robert Snell has a front page article that begins, “A court battle hailed as the most important privacy rights case in the digital age started with a Detroit robber serving 116 years in prison, caught and convicted thanks to little-known cellphone records.”

“Trump’s judicial nominations would put a lot of white men on federal courts”: Rorie Spill Solberg and Eric N. Waltenburg have this entry at the “Monkey Cage” blog of The Washington Post.

Applicability of New Jersey’s “entire controversy” doctrine divides three-judge Ninth Circuit panel: Fans of complicated preclusion scenarios likely will enjoy this ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“District ‘vindicated’ after Supreme Court declines to hear student-led prayer case”: Diane Smith of The Star-Telegram of Fort Worth, Texas has this report.

And Nicole Cobler of The Dallas Morning News reports that “Supreme Court won’t hear Birdville ISD case over student-led prayers at board meetings.”

“U.S. Supreme Court declines church’s challenge to Nebraska funeral picketing law”: Chris Kenning of Reuters has this report.