* Does the Bush Administration have Blackwater's back? The U.S. pushes for specific legal protections from Iraqi law for civilian contractors. [New York Times]

* West Virginia: a little less corrupt than last week? WV Supreme Court agrees to rehear Massey Energy case (previously discussed here). [AP; WSJ Law Blog]

* D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Douglas Ginsburg steps down early, to make way for Chief Judge David Sentelle. [D.C. Circuit (PDF) via How Appealing]

* NYT endorses Hillary Clinton (but not for the reasons identified in the bumper sticker at right). [New York Times; New York Times]

* A more detailed report on the Georgetown Law event with Justice Ginsburg that we wrote about last night. [Georgetown Hoya via How Appealing]

So LEWW was at a wedding the other weekend, and who should plunk down next to us but a reporter for the NYT Vows section! It was a deeply emotional, humbling experience -- like being face-to-face with Gandhi, or Bono -- but after we recovered, we waved our ATL press credentials and had a nice chat with the correspondent.

Turns out it was her first Vows column, so we briefed her on the most basic rules of Vows column writing: Make sure you refer to the bride, groom, or both as "honest," "courageous," "spirited," or "down-to-earth," etc., and definitely include at least one forced simile ("as white as a sun-bleached seashell" is good; "as grounded and unshakable as a redwood" is a two-fer!).

We can't wait to read about that wedding in this coming weekend's NYT, but in the meantime, we have two weeks worth of LEWW to catch you up on. Here are our featured couples:

1.) Kate Edmonds and Alex Donner

2.) Denise Delgado and Keith Kerman

3.) Fell Ogden and Charles Gray Jr.

4.) Daisy Wademan and Luc Dowling

5.) Deecy Gray and Douglas Ginsburg

6.) Aielleen Fajardo and Stefan Schick

More about these couples, after the jump.

Ever since our original request for colorful stories about the delicious Nina Totenberg, the doyenne (or maybe the dean?) of the Supreme Court press corps, we've experienced an avalanche of anecdotes about this larger-than-life legal journalist.

We still have a few reports in the queue. Here's the latest contribution:

Any discussion of Totenberg must include John Hockenberry's recountings of her diva-like attitude around the NPR newsroom. He writes about her in his well-known memoir, Moving Violations. Note that Hockenberry implies Totenberg will ruin the career of anyone who crosses her. [Ed. note: YIKES.]

Go to Amazon and search for "Totenberg" in the book, John Hockenberry, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence. Starting around page 174, you'll read this...

If you haven't tired of reading about Ms. Nina -- we know we haven't, but everyone's different -- check out the rest of this post, after the jump.

LEWW is so devoted to you, dear readers, that we haul out our scanner every week so we can show you pictures that the Times doesn't post in its online edition. But this week the NYT was showing no photographic love for the lawyers. All three of our featured couples are picture-less!

We hate it too, but to borrow a way overused line from recent TV criticism, "Whaddya gonna do?" Just try to picture them in your minds or something. Here are our finalists:

1. Eva Temkin and David Lehn Jr.

2. Sophia Lynn and David Frederick

3. Amanda McCormick and Matthew Bacal

More about these couples, after the jump.

Yesterday we put up a list of all the Supreme Court clerk hiring news that we have so far (for October Term 2007). We will update this post, or republish the list in a full post, as we receive more information.

After we put up the list, we received several corrections and additions (for which we thank you). We've revised the original list accordingly. But for those of you who haven't looked back at the list since we first published it, we'd like to highlight these changes:

1. We've added the information that Stephen Cowen, a future clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, is currently clerking for Chief Judge Douglas Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.). This is information we already had, since Cowen was featured a few months ago in Legal Eagle Wedding Watch. We apologize for omitting it on the first go-round.

(Bloggers work quickly, and we don't have a separate fact-checking department. Mistakes were, are, and will be made. Sorry.)

2. We're advised that William Consovoy is now clerking for Justice Clarence Thomas in October Term 2008 (a possibility hinted at in the Wiley Rein press release). So that leaves Eric McArthur, Carrie Severino, Heath Tarbert and Leila Thompson -- who has "awesomely fun hair," we're told -- as the CT clerks for OT 2007.

3. Heidi Bond is a 2006 grad of Michigan (not a 2005 grad, as originally reported). Also, she used to blog at Letters of Marque. Now that she's clerking for Judge Alex Kozinski, she has neither the time nor the ability to continue blogging (or sleeping or showering).

Do you have further corrections or additions -- maybe some hiring news from Chief Justice John Roberts, on whom we have nothing so far? If so, please email us. Gracias.

Earlier: More SCOTUS Clerk Hiring News: October Term 2007 Hires

Yesterday Lori Alvino and Matthew McGill crushed their competition in Legal Eagle Wedding Watch. And perhaps their margin of victory should have been even larger.

We would have given them extra points had we known about these legal celebrity sightings at their wedding:

Not that Matt McGill and Lori Alvino McGill need more praise from you, but FYI: their wedding was attended by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, for whom Matt clerked back when he was on the D.C. Circuit; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for whom Lori clerked; and Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the D.C. Circuit.

Other guests of note: former Solicitor General Ted Olson, and former D.C. Circuit nominee -- and possible Supreme Court nominee -- Miguel Estrada. (Both are now partners in the elite D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.)

So, if you think about it, you're talking about two legitimate Supreme Court justices and, but for the cruel hand of fate, three other contenders for the Court.

WOW. Not much else to say, except: WOW.

If you were a guest at this star-studded gathering, and can offer an eyewitness report on the festivities, please drop us a line. We have so many questions. For example:

Was Chief Judge Ginsburg accompanied by the special lady friend very nice guest he took to the Yankees-Orioles game last year?

Did the abstemious Justice Ginsburg eat any wedding cake?

Did Chief Justice Roberts and Jane Roberts cut the rug at the reception -- and if so, how were their moves? Is the Chief ready to appear on Dancing With the Stars?

Enquiring minds want to know!

Weddings & Celebrations: Lori Alvino, Matthew McGill [New York Times]

Earlier: Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: October 1, 2006