Round-Up

Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick has this article on the Guantanamo detainees’ diminishing rights.

At CNET News.com, Anne Broache reports here about Vonage’s recent court filing over a Verizon patent that arose out of the Court’s decision in KSR v. Teleflex on Monday. Peter Lattman of the WSJ.com Law Blog has this post on Vonage’s request to the Federal Circuit to send its patent case back to the district court.

At Balkinization, Jack Balkin has this post on President Reagan’s comments in his personal diary from the day he nominated Justice O’Connor, which refers to this article by Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post; Lee Epstein writes here about gender difference and the Supreme Court’s 8-person male majority; and Mark Graber has this post about the “intimidating environment” created by the Court’s abortion ruling for physicians.