Round-Up

Dahlia Lithwick wrote this piece at Slate criticizing certain Justices for their remarks about the Supreme Court press corps.

Over the weekend, The Oregonian carried this story about the case Weyerhaeuser v. Ross Simmons Lumber. (Thanks to John Moore for the heads-up).

Anthony Sebok has the second part here in his two part series on Findlaw about the upcoming Philip Morris punitive damages case (part 1 is here).

Writing at Ratio Juris, Professor Jim Chen has this post breaking down Justice Scalia’s disssent in Chisom v. Roemer (from 1991); Chen declares, “Strike three, Justice Scalia. Yer out!”

There are also two videos available today that may be of interest. The first, available here, is from the ACSblog and features a video of the ACS press briefing about Philip Morris v. Williams. The second video is this news report from Vermont’s WCAX-TV about a visit to Middlebury College by the Chief Justice (via How Appealing).

Finally, the results are in over at Above the Law – to find out who won the contest to become the blogosphere’s “favorite” Supreme Court Justice, click here. They’ve also begun a new poll: you can now vote for your least favorite justice here.