Round-Up: Today’s Opinions

UPDATED 4:00pm

Jeannie Shawl of Jurist has this piece covering all three decisions.

Bloomberg’s Greg Stohr has this article on the Court’s decision in Tellabs; Reuters reports here on 8-1 ruling, which sets a stricter standard for investors to pursue securities fraud lawsuits; Pete Yost of the Associated Press has this story; in the Wall Street Journal, Mark H. Anderson reports here (subscription req’d); and Washington Post Staff Writer Robert Barnes has this article on the ruling, which marks “the first time the court has considered the heart of a 1995 congressional act, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.”

The AP’s Mark Sherman has this report on the Court’s decision upholding limits on recruiting in Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association; E. Thomas Wood reports here on the unanimous ruling for the Nashville Post; Reuters has this story. David G. Savage has this article in the LA Times on the decision “saying there is no free-speech right to ignore the rules of fair competition”; and William Branigin reports here for the Washington Post. At Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh has this reaction to the ruling, which “contains a fascinating split between the conservative and the liberal Justices” and these thoughts on news coverage of the TSSAA decision.

Sherman also reports here on today’s 8-1 decision in Rita v. U.S. making it harder to challenge federal prison sentences; James Vicini of Reuters reports here. Doug Berman of Sentencing Law & Policy has this initial reaction to the Court’s ruling; and these thoughts on the post-Rita world. Kent Scheidegger weighs in here at Crime & Consequences.