Round-Up

In the USA Today, Joan Biskupic has this piece on Justice Kennedy, “the most significant vote on the court these days.”

Peter Lattman of the WSJ.com Law Blog has this post discussing the Court’s “controversial” KSR ruling and the first opinion applying the obviousness standard post-KSR. At LawPundit, Andis Kaulins has this post on the first application of the KSR decision by the Federal Circuit in Leapfrog Enterprises v. Fisher Price.

Reuters reports here that the Pentagon formally charged Yemeni national Salim Ahmed Hamdan with with conspiracy and material support for terrorism yesterday, restarting a case that was shut down by the High Court last June; Carol Williams has this article in the LA Times; and in today’s Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg reports here.

At Sentencing Law and Policy, Doug Berman has this post about two new crack sentencing cases being considered by the Court. Lastly, Eric Alterman of the Center for American Progress has this post on the slow response to the April decision in Mass. v. EPA.