Round-Up: Other News

In the current issue of CQ Weekly, Kenneth Jost has this column discussing Justice Thomas’s opinion in Landrigan, which “illustrates his unbending refusal to find any facts grievous enough to warrant throwing out a death sentence.”

Yesterday, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick discussed the remaining cases left to be decided this Term on NPR’s “Day to Day” in this this audio segment.

Tamara Bartlett of the Daily Californian reports here on the University of California Regents’ request that the High Court hear its appeal to overturn a decision that banks could not be held responsible for their role in the Enron accounting fraud at the same time as the Stoneridge securities law case, which the Court already granted. In today’s Washington Post, Carrie Johnson reports here on criticism from Rep. Barney Frank over the Bush administration’s decision not to support investors in this case; Eryn Brown weighs in here at the LATimes.com’s Opinion L.A.; and Peter Lattman has this post at the WSJ.com Law Blog discussing President Bush’s thoughts on the case.

At Prawfs Blawg, Kristin Hickman has this post on the implications of the Coke decision in the tax area.

Earlier this week, Stuart Taylor Jr. had this piece in the National Journal on the Ledbetter ruling, stating that “the suggestions by Ginsburg and the media that the decision leaves women such as Ledbetter with no adequate remedy for pay discrimination … are vastly exaggerated.”

At the BLT, Tony Mauro has this post on Justice Alito’s keynote at the Frank J. Guarinin Public Policy Forum and this post on the 40th anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia decision. This story about the Lovings’ interracial marriage case aired earlier this week on NPR’s “All Things Considered”.

Last week at Legalities, Jan Crawford Greenburg weighed in here on the Court’s decision in Sole v. Wyner – “a perfect example of what John Roberts is trying to achieve in his efforts to move the Court toward consensus.”