“Appeals judges: Gag order in hog smells cases went too far.” The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today.

“Ex-Supreme Court Justice Kennedy laments ‘low point in our civic dialogue'”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

“With Brett Kavanaugh On The Supreme Court, Liberal Lawyers Shift Strategies; They’re stepping up their coordination and may try to avoid the federal court system altogether”: Amanda Terkel of HuffPost has this report.

“Roberts Will Have Hand on Throttle as Supreme Court Veers Right”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Tyson Timbs, former ‘junkie’ from Marion, is namesake of important U.S. Supreme Court case”: Mark Alesia has this front page article in today’s edition of The Indianapolis Star.

“Google it: Supreme Court tackles class action settlement that left nothing for millions of online customers.” Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

In the November 2018 issue of ABA Journal magazine: Mark Walsh has an article headlined “Court to consider challenge to cy pres remedies to settle class actions.”

And Lorelei Laird has the magazine’s cover story headlined “Legal ethics questions and accusations of spying on the defense have stymied a Guantanamo terrorism trial.”

“Liberal Hypocrisy in College Admissions? The legacy system is affirmative action for the privileged.” Columnist Nicholas Kristof had this op-ed in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“In Ill-Timed Brief, Saudi Arabia Seeks to Protect Its Consulates”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

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 two cases.

And in Townes v. Alabama, No. 17-7894. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a statement respecting the denial of certiorari.

“American ISIS Suspect Is Freed After Being Held More Than a Year”: Charlie Savage, Rukmini Callimachi, and Eric Schmitt of The New York Times have this report.