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In today’s Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports here on the student free-speech case, Morse v. Frederick, which will be heard on Monday.

The LA Times has this editorial on televising Supreme Court oral arguments.

At the BLT, Tony Mauro has this post on the long-awaited ruling in the Global Crossing v. Metrophones telecom case.

David G. Savage continues the discussion of the D.C. Circuit’s decision to strike down the strict gun ban here in the LA Times; Robert A. Levy of the Cato Institute has this column in yesterday’s Washington Post; at Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr weighs in here on the likelihood that the High Court will take the case; and NPR’s “Morning Edition” has this interview with D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty addressing the gun ban.

Finally, here at AboveTheLaw.com David Lat highlights this article by Lynette Clemetson of the New York Times on Justice Kennedy’s appearance in “The Trial of Hamlet” at the Kennedy Center on Thursday. Yesterday, Lat also had this post discussing Justice Scalia’s nomination and tenure on the Court, in honor of his 71st birthday.