Round-Up

Term previews galore:

Edward Lazarus of Akin Gump highlights Justice Kennedy’s role on the Court in an article here at Findlaw.

James Vicini of Reuters highlights the term’s abortion and race cases here.

At the WSJ Law Blog, Peter Lattman mentions a panel discussion about the Court taking place tonight at the New School in New York. That panel, featuring Joan Biskupic, Jeff Rosen, Sandy Levinson, and Stephen Wermiel, will be webcast live at 7:30 EDT tonight (9/28) at this page.

The ACSblog continues its Supreme Court preview series with this post about Ledbetter v. Goodyear, an employment discrimination case in which Howe & Russell represent the petitioner, and this entry about the school diversity cases.

NPR’s Talk of the Nation had a term preview this afternoon, and guests included David Savage, Paul Beard, and our own Tom Goldstein. The audio will be available at this web page after 6 PM eastern time tonight.

Moving away from term previews, Rick Hasen of the Election Law Blog has this post about two important cases in election law that may make their way up to the Supreme Court.

Bruce Peabody wonders in the Christian Science Monitor about the fate of the pending bipartisan bill that tries to force the Court to televise oral argument sessions.

Rick Garnett asks at PrawfsBlawg, “Is ‘Independence’ the New ‘Activism?'”

Finally, the Seattle Times ran this editorial about the union fees cases granted on Tuesday. If you would like to follow that matter closely, the Evergreen Freedom Foundation has launched a blog devoted exclusively to developments in those two consolidated cases. The Teachers v. Union blog can be found here.