Today’s News – Tuesday, April 19, 2005

News on yesterday’s oral arguments in Johnson v. California:
Nathaniel Hoffman of Contra Costa Times;
Michael McGough of The Post-Gazette National Bureau;
David G. Savage of The L.A. Times; and
Erica Werner of the AP in The Boston Globe.

News on the Court’s opinion, issued today, in Dura Pharmaceuticals v. Broudo:
Michael Kirkland of The Washington Times;
Greg Stohr of Bloomberg;
Hope Yen in The Boston Globe; and
this Reuters report.

Joanna Grossman has this essay on FindLaw discussing the Court’s ruling in Smith v. City of Jackson. [Disclosure: Goldstein & Howe, P.C. for petitioners.]

Adam Cohen has this opinion piece in The New York Times entitled “Psst … Justice Scalia … You Know, You’re an Activist Judge, Too.”

News on the cases in which cert. was granted yesterday:

Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao Do Vegetal:
Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times;
Charles Lane of The Washington Post;
Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor;
Greg Stohr of Bloomberg; and
the AP’s Hope Yen in The Boston Globe.

Georgia v. Randolph:
Tony Mauro of Legal Times; and
the AP’s Hope Yen in The Boston Globe has this article on Georgia v. Randolph and Maryland v. Blake.