“Kennedy mum on court’s decision on health care in session at Aspen Institute”: The Aspen (Colo.) Daily News has this report.

“Appeals court tosses child porn conviction because wrong apartment searched”: Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“Randy Barnett: Losing ObamaCare While Preserving the Constitution.” Reason senior editor Damon Root interviews law professor Randy Barnett in a video segment that you can access here.

And in the July 30, 2012 issue of National Review magazine, Jonathan H. Adler and Nathaniel Stewart will have an article headlined “Positive Steps, Silver Linings.”

“Stone committed those violations as an attempt to repeat his strategy of suing anonymous internet users for allegedly downloading pornography illegally, using the powers of the court to find their identity, then shaming or intimidating them into settling for thousands of dollars”: Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith issued this ruling today on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Today’s decision affirms the imposition of sanctions against the attorney for a pornographic film producer that had initiated suit against 670 unnamed persons whom it believed had unlawfully downloaded one of its films using BitTorrent.

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks in Venice”: You can view the video on YouTube at this link.

“Why There Are Too Many Patents in America: After dismissing a high-profile suit between Apple and Motorola, one of our leading jurists discusses the problems plaguing America’s intellectual property system.” Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Court rules police may be liable for pepper ball injuries; The decision, stemming from a 2004 incident in which a student was injured by such a projectile, is a setback for officers fighting lawsuits by Occupy protesters”: Maura Dolan has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

And in today’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko reports that “Former UC Davis student’s suit OKd.”

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Supreme Court 2011-2012 Term Review”: C-SPAN is now providing separate online access to each hour of yesterday’s two-hour event at The Heritage Foundation.

The video of my appearance as a panelist on the second hour of the program, along with co-panelists Mark Sherman of The Associated Press and David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times, can be accessed here.

And the video of the first hour of the program, which featured Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. as one of the panelists, can be accessed here. Yesterday, I had this post linking to news coverage of Verrilli’s remarks at the event.

“Ed. Law Challenges Loom After Health-Care Ruling”: Mark Walsh has this article (pass-through link) online at Education Week.

“Why it’s so hard for SCOTUSblog to get Supreme Court press credentials”: Mallary Jean Tenore of Poynter has this report.

“Reject the ‘Thurmond Rule’: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell invokes the legacy of Strom Thurmond to hold up judicial confirmations; It’s bad for judges and bad for justice.” This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Louisiana high court squabble turns ugly”: James Gill of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this essay.

“Toward a Supreme Court Showdown”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “Six federal courts have ruled on the Defense of Marriage Act and reached the same conclusion: the 1996 law violates the Constitution by denying same-sex couples, who are legally married under state law, federal benefits afforded to heterosexual couples for no good reason.”

“The danger of Supreme Court deep throats”: Linda P. Campbell has this op-ed in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

“Ex-Justice Newman refuses questioning on Family Court”: This article appears today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“‘Abortion Queen’ In Last-Ditch Battle To Save Mississippi Clinic”: Bloomberg News has this report.

“The Future of the Roberts Court”: This audio segment featuring Adam Liptak appeared on today’s broadcast of WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.”

“The Mystery of John Roberts”: Linda Greenhouse has this post at the “Opinionator” blog of The New York Times.

“Eminent domain, MBS and the U.S. Constitution: a one-sided fight?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“A Supreme Court copyright case has libraries fighting for the right to lend”: Erin Geiger Smith has this report at Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight.

“UC Davis student can sue over pepper spray, court rules”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this blog post reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

Appellate math question of the day: A lifetime term of supervised release minus 12 months of credit for time served in prison equals what? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today issued an opinion that begins:

This appeal presents primarily the almost metaphysical issue of how, if at all, a lifetime term of supervised release, imposed for a supervised release violation, should be reduced by the number of months of a prison term imposed for that violation, a subtraction we are willing to assume is required by the literal terms of the provisions governing supervised release.

You can access the decision at this link.

“SCOTUSblog publisher respects reporters more after doing tick-tock”: JimRomenesko.com has this post.

“Judge extends block of new Mississippi abortion law”: The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi has this news update.

The Associated Press reports that “Judge continues to block Mississippi abortion law.”

Bloomberg News reports that “U.S. Judge Continues To Block Mississippi Abortion Law.”

And Reuters reports that “Judge extends halt to new abortion law in Mississippi.”

“Nina Totenberg: SCOTUS Secrets, Leaks & Pizza with Scalia.” Bloomberg Law has posted online at YouTube this interview with NPR’s Nina Totenberg.

Three-judge Fourth Circuit panel divides over how to measure amount of restitution owed to “Vicky,” a victim portrayed in child pornography materials seized from the defendant’s residence: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

As in many of the recent cases from other federal appellate courts addressing this same subject matter, former U.S. District Judge (now law professor) Paul G. Cassell filed an amicus brief on behalf of the victim. And, as in many of those other cases, today’s Fourth Circuit ruling rejects Cassell’s argument that the victim is entitled to recover an award representing the full amount of her damages from each defendant who is convicted of possessing the material in which she was depicted.

“A Relaxed Solicitor General Has a Bit of Fun at His Own Expense”: Brent Kendall has this post at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”

Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Verrilli’s victory lap.”

Patrick Svitek of The Huffington Post has an article headlined “Donald Verrilli, Solicitor General, ‘OK’ With Criticism Of His Performance Defending Obamacare.”

The Hill has a blog post titled “Verrilli shrugs off criticism of his healthcare arguments.”

At “Main Justice,” Matthew Volkov has a post titled “Verrilli Talks Healthcare Win.”

And Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers offered some thoughts on today’s Heritage Foundation event via Twitter.

You can access C-SPAN’s video coverage of the event via this link.

And special thanks to Lyle Denniston of “SCOTUSblog,” Mark Walsh of Education Week’s “School Law” blog and ABA Journal, and many of this blog’s other readers for saying hello following the event.

Programming note: On Wednesday morning, I will be in Washington, DC at The Heritage Foundation to serve as one of the panelists for the program titled “Scholars & Scribes Review the Rulings: The Supreme Court’s 2011-2012 Term.”

I’ll be a panelist during the second hour of the program, together with David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times and Mark Sherman of The Associated Press. And you don’t want to miss the program’s first hour, featuring as panelists Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.; law professor Richard A. Epstein; and attorney Michael Carvin.

The event can be viewed live, online at The Heritage Foundation’s web site via this link. In addition, C-SPAN is planning to televise the event.

Additional posts will appear here Wednesday afternoon.

“Putting law over politics on Supreme Court”: Law professors Douglas W. Kmiec and Barry McDonald have this essay online at Politico.com.

“Easton teen’s life sentence for gang killing to be argued; Easton teen is serving life without parole for killing another teen when he was 14”: The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has a news update that begins, “The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania took the first step in vacating an Easton teen’s mandatory life sentence for murder two weeks after the nation’s highest court ruled such punishment unconstitutional.”

You can access yesterday’s order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania at this link.

“Senator Scott Brown makes new push for ‘Stolen Valor Act,’ after Supreme Court strikes down similar law”: The Boston Globe has this news update.

And Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “Lawmakers promote revised ‘stolen valor’ law.”

“Marc Morial, Cedric Richmond ask Justice to block effort to keep Bernette Johnson from becoming chief justice”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has an article that begins, “The Justice Department should stop the Louisiana Supreme Court from denying Justice Bernette Johnson her rightful place as chief justice, according to a letter sent Monday to the chief of the voting section of the Civil Rights Division on behalf of Urban League President and former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, Sen. Karen Cater Peterson, D-New Orleans, and 10 other prominent African American leaders.”

“Which cable network shut down SCOTUSblog?” Erik Wemple has this blog post online at The Washington Post.

And online at The New Yorker, Amy Davidson has a blog post titled “Six Lessons from SCOTUSblog (and for Life).”

“Stop-and-Frisk May Soon Hit Judicial Roadblocks”: This article will appear Wednesday in The New York Times.

“Laurence Tribe Foresaw Obamacare Tax Holding”: At YouTube, the user “ConstitutionalJedi” has posted online this two-part video (part one; part two).