Thursday round-up

Briefly:

• To mark the 25th anniversary of Justice Clarence Thomas appointment to the Supreme Court, the Yale Law Journal offers a collection of essays exploring various aspects of Thomas jurisprudence.
• Counting to 5 (podcast) features the second part of a two part look at the Courts unanimous June 19th decision inMatal v. Tam, the case about the Asian-American rock band The Slants and their battle with the PTO to trademark their band name.
• At the Associated Press, Sharon Cohen and Adam Geller recount the results of a 50-state survey assessing how judges and prosecutors, lawmakers and parole boards are re-examining juvenile lifer cases in the wake of recent Supreme Court decisions find[ing] that the harshest punishments given to adults are unconstitutionally cruel and unusual when imposed on teens; Cohen and Geller conclude that [t]he odds of release or continued imprisonment vary from state to state, even county to county, in a pattern that can make justice seem arbitrary.
• In The University of Pennsylvanias Regulatory Review, law student Leah Wong looks at the courts decision this term in inStar Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc., which held that a feature of a useful article is copyrightable if it can be perceived as a separately protectable work.

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