Monday round-up

Briefly:

• In an op-ed for theNational Law Journal, Todd Peppers argues that, if a law clerk was responsible for this summer’s leaks about the Courts internal deliberations on the health care decision, that law clerk would have violated the Courts binding Code of Conduct for Law Clerks even if he or she did so at a Justices behest.
• Also at theNational Law Journal, Marcia Coyle discusses a Federal Circuit case on judicial pay and the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 thatcould reach the Court in the upcoming Term.
• In a humorous piece forSalon, Jay Wexler describes his experience as a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
• In his column for TheNation, Herman Schwartz criticizes the Courts recent decision inFlorence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington, holding that jail strip searches do not require reasonable suspicion when the arrestee is being admitted into the general jail population. [Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to or work for this blog in various capacities, represented the petitioner in Florence.]
• Greenwires Lawrence Hurley profiles Damien Schiff, the Pacific Legal Foundation attorney who argued and won last TermsSackett v. EPA.
• Ather On the Case blog, Alison Frankel of Reuters reports on possible tensions between the Federal Circuit and the Court on the issue of patent eligibility.
• TheAtlanticsAndrew Cohen applauds the Justices for their efforts to visit and speak with veterans groups and urges them to continue this practice.
• This blogssymposiumcommemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Alexander BickelsThe Least Dangerous Branchcontinued with posts byRichard EpsteinandSanford Rosen.