Round-Up

Tony Mauro of the Legal Times reports here on Sole v. Wyner (06-531), an attorney fees case being argued before the High Court on April 17. Mauro also has this article in the Legal Times discussing the Court’s April calendar.

In today’s New York Times, Danny Hakim has this article on a trial beginning today in which automakers are challenging Vermont’s emissions regulations, a week after the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA (05-1120). Scott Malone reports here at Reuters; AP writer David Gram has this article; and Dave McCurdy, head of the Alliance of Automobile Manufactures, discusses the Vermont lawsuit and the Court’s ruling in this audio segment from NPR’s “Day to Day.”

At the Warming Law Blog, Doug Kendall has this post on the Massachusetts v. EPA decision and federalism, furthering the discussion Linda Greenhouse began in this article in the New York Times on Sunday. Also in the Times, Adam Cohen has this editorial on executive privilege and Supreme Court precedent in light of the Bush Administration’s reaction to Congress’s investigation of the recent firings of eight U.S. attorneys.

At the Supreme Court Times Blog, Ross Runkel summarizes the cases being argued before the Court next week and makes predictions on their outcomes here. Paul Secunda of the Workplace Prof Blog has this post discussing Runkel’s prediction that the EEOC will win by a landslide in BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Co v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (06-341). Secunda also has this post on the upcoming ERISA fiduciary duties case, Beck v. Pace Int’l Union (05-1448), which is scheduled for argument on April 24.

At the ACS Blog, Professor Ana M. Otero has this preview of the upcoming Texas death penalty case, Panetti v. Quarterman (06-6407).

Lastly, Jeremy Pelofsky of Reuters reports here on the District of Columbia’s appeal asking the D.C. Circuit to reconsider its recent decision declaring the city’s handgun ban unconstitutional.