Round-Up

In yesterday’s New York Times, Linda Greenhouse had this article on the Morse v. Frederick case and the division it has created between the Bush administration and its allies on the religious right. At NPR, Nina Totenberg had this audio segment previewing the student free-speech case on today’s “Morning Edition” and Madeleine Brand had this piece on “Day to Day” featuring Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick.

David G. Savage has this article on the Morse v. Frederick oral argument heard this morning in the LA Times; the AP’s Mark Sherman reports here; James Vicini of Reuters has this recap; and the Wall Street Journal’s Jess Bravin reports here (subscription req’d) on “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” and the Court’s orders. Emil Steiner at the Washington Post’s OFF/beat blog has this post on the student speech case; Alice Ristroph weighs in here at Concurring Opinions.

The Jackson Hole Star Tribune has this story on Wilkie v. Robbins, which was also argued before the Court this morning.

Peter Kaplan of Reuters has this report on the Court’s decision to ask for the views of the Solicitor General on a case challenging patent settlements between major pharmaceutical companies and their generic rivals. The AP has this article on Azimi v. Jordan’s Meats, the workplace harassment case that the Court refused to hear; this article on the Court’s decision not to review limits in a sexual harassment case; and this article on its refusal to hear the case of a Michigan man whose state drug conviction was thrown out.

Finally, in the National Journal, Stuart Taylor Jr. has this column on the DC Circuit’s gun control decision, which broke with Supreme Court precedent, and UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler weighs in here at the ACS Blog.