Round-Up

Mark H. Anderson reports here (subscription req’d) in the Wall Street Journal on today’s action including the Court’s ruling in Safeco Insurance v. Burr; its 5-4 decision in Uttecht v. Brown; its decision to review the age discrimination lawsuit, Federal Express Corp. v Holowecki; and its request for the views of the Solicitor General in Teck Cominco Metals v. Pakootas.

Bloomberg’s Greg Stohr reports here on the credit-score ruling, which limited the rights of consumers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act; James Vicini of Reuters has this article about the Court’s unanimous opinion reversing Ninth Circuit rulings against Geico and Safeco; the AP’s Pete Yost reports here on the decision making it harder to sue over credit reporting.

The AP’s Mark Sherman reports here on the Court’s ruling in Uttecht; David Stout has this article in the New York Times on the Court’s opinion, which reinstated the death sentence of a convicted murderer, carjacker and rapist; and in the LA Times, David G. Savage has this story on the decision, which “was sharply split along conservative-liberal lines.”

The Associated Press reports here on the High Court’s unanimous ruling in Sole v. Wyner, making it more difficult to recover legal fees from the government; Tony Mauro has this post at the BLT. The AP also has this article on the Supreme Court’s decision to decline the case of a widow of a leukemia victim attempting to hold oil companies accountable for her husband’s poor health.

In today’s Washington Post, Alan Cooperman reports here on “a highly visible rift in the anti-abortion movement” created by the Supreme Court’s April decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. And the AP’s David Eggert has this article on a Sixth Circuit ruling that rejected Michigan’s attempt to ban “partial-birth” abortion.

Finally, William Glaberson has this article in the New York Times about the dismissal of war crimes charges against Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr.