Round-Up

There was quite a bit of news and opinion today about Philip Morris v. Williams, the punitive damages case to be argued this coming Tuesday, 10/31 (the briefs can be found here).

The WSJ Law Blog has previews the case here.

The ACSBlog has a preview here by William B. Schultz and Andrew N. Goldfarb.

Ted Frank offers his view of the case here at the website of the American Enterprise Institute.

Adam Cohen has an opinion piece here on the editorial page of today’s New York Times called “The Supreme Court’s Crusade: Fairness for the Powerful.”

Finally, looking ahead to tomorrow’s Conference, this week’s edition of “Conference Call,” featuring a detailed look at the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case, is now available registration-free at Law.com via this link. Our SCOTUSblog supplement to that article, featuring the full cert. petition in all of the cases highlighted in that article, is available here.