Today’s News – Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005

CNN.com has this article on the Court’s opinion, issued today, in No. 03-636, Johnson v. California.

News on No. 04-623, Gonzales v. Oregon, the Death With Dignity Act case, in which the Court granted cert. yesterday:
Joan Biskupic of USAToday;
Jan Crawford Greenburg of The Chicago Tribune;
Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times;
Stephen Henderson of Knight Ridder;
Charles Lane of The Washington Post;
Tony Mauro and Marya Lucas of Legal Times;
David Savage of The L.A. Times;
Brad Knickerbocker of The Christian Science Monitor;
the AP’s Typh Tucker in The Boston Globe;
Reuters’ James Vicini in The Boston Globe; and
the AP’s Hope Yen in The Boston Globe.

News on yesterday’s oral arguments in Kelo v. City of New London:
Dan Ackman of Forbes;
Laurie Asseo of Bloomberg;
Joan Biskupic of USAToday;
Reuters’ Deborah Charles in The Boston Globe;
Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times;
Charles Lane of The Washington Post;
Dahlia Lithwick of Slate;
Tony Mauro of Legal Times;
Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe; and
the AP’s Pete Yost in The Boston Globe.

Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe has this article on the Court’s decisions yesterday in Stewart v. Dutra Construction and Smith v. Massachusetts, both of which originated in the Boston area.

Dana Milbank of The Washington Post has this article on the absences of both Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Stevens from yesterday’s oral arguments.

Tim Craig and Miranda Spivack of The Washington Post have this article on No. 04-698, Schaffer v. Weast, in which the the Court granted cert. yesterday.

Cliff Sloan has this article in Newsweek entitled “A Final Chapter for the Chief Justice?”

Here is The Washington Post’s Supreme Court Calendar for today, Wednesday, February 23, 2005.

The L.A. Times has this AP article on No. 04-967, McCorvey v. Hill, in which the Court yesterday rejected an effort by Norma McCorvey – a.k.a. “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade fame – to re-open her case to account for new evidence.

The Boston Globe has this AP article on No. 04-368, Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States, which will be argued on April 27.