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At Slate, Dahlia Lithwick and Walter Dellinger have this exchange providing end-of-the-Term analysis. Andy Siegel has this portrait of the Roberts Court at PrawfsBlawg.Greg Stohr of Bloomberg reports here on “what may have been the most pro- business U.S. Supreme Court term in decades.”

In today’s Washington Post, Jo Becker and Barton Gellman have this piece – part of a series on Vice President Cheney – discussing his role in vetting Supreme Court nominees; Petter Lattman has this post discussing the story and Cheney’s influence on the High Court.

Mark H. Anderson has this article (subscription req’d) in the Wall Street Journal discussing the Court’s decision not to take action on the Enron class-action lawsuit, The Regents of the University of California v. Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc..

The Associated Press reports here on the High Court’s decision to hear a case dealing with online cigarette sales. At the TaxProf Blog, Paul Caron has this post on yesterday’s decision to grant cert. in a tax law case, Knight v. Commissioner.