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Monday’s links — Final Version

Throughout the day this post has been collecting links related to today’s opinions and orders. This is a final update recapping Monday’s coverage in the mainstream media, legal blogs and various discussion sites. For the most part, links are organized by case.


General Coverage

Slate’s discussion between Dahlia Lithwick, Walter Dellinger, Charles Fried, and Tim Wu has seven entries so far (three from Monday; four from last week). Current topics include a debate on the significance of the Ten Commandments cases.

How Appealing has its usual comprehensive coverage of all of the day’s developments. Doug Berman’s Sentencing Law and Policy blog assesses the Term’s implications for criminal law.

Ten Commandments

Media:

Three pieces from the NYT: David Stout and Linda Greenhouse reporting on the case and this piece on public reactions to the decisions by Ralph Blumenthal. The AP’s coverage by Hope Yen is here. In the Washington post, Charles Lane has this story on the decisions; this companion piece predicts more monument litigation to come.

Blogs:

A string of 10+ posts from the Volokh Conspiracy is collected here. Eric Muller criticizes Justice Breyer’s concurrence in Van Orden. Jack Balkin blogs Scalia’s dissent in McCreary at Balkinization.

Discussion Sites:

SCOTUSblog’s Ten Commandments discussion has more than 15 posts from participants including Eugene Volokh, William Marshall, Douglas Laycock, Rick Garnett, Ann Althouse, Noah Feldman, Burt Neuborne, Sanford Levinson, Jack Balkin and Thomas Berg (as well as regulars Marty and Tom).

Grokster

Media:

Several pieces from the NYT: Linda Greenhouse, Tom Zeller’s piece on the likely consequences of the decision for file sharing, and this piece on what the case means for the studios. At ReasonOnline, Mike Godwin argues that Grokster is not as much of a victory for the recording industry as much of the early coverage suggests. Other coverage: WSJ Online’s Grokster Primer, Bloomberg, CNET news (from last week).

Blogs:

Lawrence Solum provides a close reading of the opinion in a series of posts at the Legal Theory Blog. Tung Yin reacts to Grokster here. James DeLong weighs in with “first thoughts on Grokster” at IP Central. Corante rounded up pre-Grokster commentary here. Eric Goldman’s reactions are here. Max Hailperin’s thoughts on content industry reactions to Grokster are here.

Discussion Sites:

SCOTUSblog’s Discussion site has a few dozen posts with thoughts from participants including Kathleen Sullivan, Susan Crawford, Ian Gershengorn, Edward Felton, Charlie Petit, Rebecca Tushnet, and Fred von Lohmann.

The Picker MobBlog has lots of original content as well as responses to posts on the SCOTUSblog discussion site and the rest of the blog world.

The Washington Post hosted live Q&A on the Ten Commandments cases with David Barkey of the Anti-Defamation League.

The Wall Street Journal Online sponsored a virtual roundtable on Grokster. Participants include James M. Burger (Dow Lohnes & Albertson), Michael Geist (University of Ottawa), Denise Howell (of Bag and Baggage), Ernist Miller (Yale), Ted Olson (Gibson Dunn), John Palfrey (Harvard), and Christopher Ruhland (Orrick, Herrington).

Brand X

The NYT’s coverage from Saul Hansel.

David Kopel praises the Court’s decision at the Volokh Conspiracy. Jennifer Granick, the Executive Director of the Center for Internet and Society, is blogging Grokster and Brand X on her personal blog, The Shout.

Castle Rock

The NYT’s coverage by Linda Greenhouse. The Washington Post story is here.

Bell

Doug Berman covers today’s Booker GVRs and Bell here.

Miller/Cooper

Two stories from the NYT’s Adam Liptak: coverage of the case and a broader piece on the judiciary’s treatment of the press.