Monday round-up

Briefly:

• Anews releasefrom the Georgetown Supreme Court Institute summarizes the Institutes annual press briefing (which occurred last week) on the upcoming Term.
• At herOn the Caseblog for Reuters, Alison Frankel discusses the unusual number of federal securities cases the Court has heard in the last two years and previews Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans, which is scheduled for oral argument on November 5.
• TheAssociated Pressand theGainesville Sunreport on Justice Clarence Thomass recent remarks to law students at the University of Florida. JusticeThomas urged his audience not to give in to the idea that law students at Ivy League schools are better or smarter than they are.
• Terry Baynes ofReuters, Garrett Epps of TheAtlantic, and Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journalcover the latest development in the public feud between Justice Antonin Scalia and Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit.