Round-Up
The wave of book reviews and commentary on Jeffrey Toobin’s new book, The Nine, continues. NPR’s Nina Totenberg had this positive review on Friday, while David Garrow, reviewer for the LA Times, had a different assessment of the work. Here, Time magazine published an interview with Toobin. Finally, don’t forget to check out SCOTUSblog’s own Q&A with the author.
Marcia Coyle wrote this piece in the National Law Journal on the potential effects of a decision coming out of Stoneridge, the securities case to be heard in the Court this coming term.
Top Supreme Court litigators commented on the pro-business Roberts Court today at an “annual media briefing held by the National Chamber Litigation Center,” blogs Robert Rogers on the BLT.
At the Volokh Conspiracy, David Kopel writes on developments in the DC gun case.
As another reader has commented at the Volokh Conspiracy, the post on the D.C. gun case is a bit confusing because it refers to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit as the “D.C. Court of Appeals.” Although I realize that mainstream media have some different naming conventions, in this case, that nomenclature is confusing and obscures a jurisdictional split. The case at the SCOTUS, Parker v. District of Columbia, is out of the D.C. Circuit. By contrast, the D.C. Court of Appeals is the highest local court in the District of Columbia, which functions in a manner similar to a state supreme court. It has rejected Second Amendment challenges to D.C. gun laws. See, e.g., Austin v. United States, 847 A2d 391 (2004), cert. denied, 543 U.S. 895 (2004).
Comment by GiovannaShay — September 20, 2007 @ 9:54 am