“Retired justice revisits Fla. beach protection case”: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has this report.

You can access at this link the prepared text of the remarks that retired Justice John Paul Stevens delivered yesterday.

“Montana Judge, Author of Racist Email About Obama, to Take Senior Status”: Matthew Huisman has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Lawsuit over Thomas Jefferson’s wine too late, U.S. court finds”: Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“Author describes new book that goes behind the scenes of the Supreme Court”: Del Quentin Wilber has this blog post online at The Washington Post. Among the questions that author Jeffrey Toobin addresses in the interview is “Roberts vs. Obama in a cage-fighting match. Who wins?”

Eighth Circuit upholds dismissal of challenge to Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate provision for lack of standing: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in a lawsuit brought by a group of plaintiffs including the Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (in his personal capacity), at this link.

“Circuit Split Watch: Earning a Return on Seized Money.” Michelle Olsen has this post today at her “Appellate Daily” blog.

“Book Case: Understanding Justice William Rehnquist.” Joseph Schuman of Reuters has an essay that begins, “The William Rehnquist of John Jenkins’s new biography is the same rigid, reactionary and arguably racist jurist hated by liberals and loved by conservatives during his three decades on the Supreme Court and 19 years leading it. But Jenkins’s ‘The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist’ breaks new ground by unearthing the roots of Rehnquist’s judicial dogma.”

“Supreme Court asks for review of LU’s challenge to healthcare act”: This article appears in today’s edition of The News & Advance of Lynchburg, Virginia.

“Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril; It could become illegal to resell your iPhone 4, car or family antiques”: At MarketWatch, Jennifer Waters has an essay that begins, “Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s busy agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother’s antique furniture to your iPhone 4.”

“The Federal Circuit, Not the Supreme Court, Legalized Software Patents”: Timothy B. Lee has this blog post at Forbes.com.

“Visit from Supreme Court official results in gift of WWII memento for Pittsburg veteran, fly fishing expert”: Today’s edition of The Contra Costa Times contains an article that begins, “Most attorneys dream of one day making an impression on the nation’s highest court. Clark Strickland, a World War II veteran and fly-fishing expert, has done that without cracking open a law book. It all started when Jeffrey Minear, counselor to Chief Justice John Roberts, came in to the San Francisco Orvis fly-fishing store where Strickland works.”

“Justices Press Lawyers for Broad Solutions”: Adam Liptak will have this article Thursday in The New York Times.

“Study: Race-neutral admissions can work.” The Associated Press has a report that begins, “As the Supreme Court revisits the use of race in college admissions next week, critics of affirmative action are hopeful the justices will roll back the practice. A new report out Wednesday offers a big reason for their optimism: evidence from at least some of the nine states that don’t use affirmative action that leading public universities can bring meaningful diversity to their campuses through race-neutral means.”

And online at Slate, Emily Bazelon has a jurisprudence essay entitled “Tell Slate Your Affirmative Action Story: The Supreme Court is about to hear a huge case on race-conscious college admissions; How has this issue affected you?”

“Supreme Court: Must government pay compensation for dam’s temporary flooding?” Robert Barnes will have this article Thursday in The Washington Post.

And Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers reports that “Supreme Court wades into flood-control compensation argument.”

“Are class action lawyers in Arkansas snubbing SCOTUS (and CAFA)?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has a report that begins, “Over the summer, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court made one of the most improbable grants of certiorari you will ever see.”

“Sept. 11 defense lawyers seek delay, blame rats; Lawyers for the alleged 9/11 mastermind said Wednesday that their offices at Guantanamo are a health hazard and that a proposed prosecution alternative is too cramped”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this news update.

“Supreme Court weighs federally created floods”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.

And Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire reports that “Justices consider Ark. claim against Army Corps.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Arkansas Game and Fish Comm’n v. United States, No. 11-597.

Update: At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Argument recap: ‘Trust us’ as a legal standard.”

“2nd Circuit drops hint: Morrison may limit reach of criminal laws.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“Bigger bucks come to Supreme Court clerks who wait”: Reynolds Holding and Richard Beales have an essay online at Reuters Breakingviews that begins, “Bigger bucks come to Supreme Court clerks who wait. Top U.S. law firms are offering $280,000 signing bonuses to lure the young attorneys who work with America’s nine top judges. But many do stints with the government first. A new Breakingviews calculator shows how that path can be financially smarter over the long run.”

“Vitro to Ask U.S. Court to Enforce Mexican Reorganization”: Bloomberg News has this report previewing a case scheduled for oral argument today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

“Argument preview: What does a court’s silence mean?” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Analysis: How opponents held back the U.S. voter ID tide.” Andrew Longstreth of Reuters has this report.

“Statesman’s heirs wrest historic papers from NC”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Descendants of one of the first U.S. Supreme Court justices won a legal fight Tuesday against the state of North Carolina over ownership of their ancestor’s historic papers, which could be worth millions.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina at this link.

“Harper nominates Quebec judge Wagner to Supreme Court”: Kirk Makin has this article today in The Toronto Globe and Mail.

And The Montreal Gazette reports that “Wagner has presided over important Quebec cases.”

“Another Scalia Vexes Regulators”: This article will appear Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.

You can freely access the full text of the article via Google News.

“Wire Tapping, Gay Marriage On SCOTUS Docket”: This audio segment featuring David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation.”

“Justice Scalia Speaks About ‘Reading Law’ at D.C. FedSoc Event”: You can access this recap of today’s event at the “FedSoc Blog.”

“Was Hitler a pirate? Answer may shape SCOTUS Kiobel decision.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“Argument preview: Duty to pay for flooding.” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“G.O.P. Aims to Remake Florida Supreme Court”: This article will appear Wednesday in The New York Times.

“Gay Marriage’s Ballot Test”: Jeffrey Toobin has this blog post online at The New Yorker.

“Court extends stop on order blocking indefinite detention law”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.,com has this blog post reporting on an order that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“Court: Can gov’t be sued for credit card mistakes?” The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Supreme Court is questioning whether the federal government can be sued for violating federal credit card laws that ban the printing of credit card numbers and expiration dates on receipts.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in United States v. Bormes, No. 11-192.

Update: In other coverage, Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court weighs U.S. liability under credit reporting law.”

“Fla. justices question law license for immigrant”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Most of the Florida Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of granting a law license to an illegal immigrant.”

Update: In other coverage, Reuters reports that “Florida weighs case of illegal immigrant who passed bar exam.”

“2011 Major Opinion Announcements Posted”: According to this post at the Oyez site, yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court released the audio of that Court’s opinion announcements for the 2011 Term.

The audio of the opinion announcements in the Affordable Care Act cases consists of three parts: Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.