Round-Up

An NPR report filed by Larry Abramson discusses the “fate of desegregation efforts” in California and Massachusetts, following last term’s Parents Involved decision. Go back in time — the Atlantic Monthly has made available online its July 1954 article entitled “Segregation and the Supreme Court,” written just a few short months after the Brown decision.

The Associated Press reports that on Tuesday Senator Christopher Dodd joined the ranks of lawmakers urging the Bush administration not to file a brief in support of the companies in the upcoming Stoneridge case. Today is the deadline for the Solicitor General to file such a brief. Read Senator Dodd’s letters to President Bush and Solicitor General Paul Clement here and here.

Read a transcript of a July panel discussion on the Supreme Court last term, featuring panelists Michael Dreeben, Eve Gartner, Jeffrey Lamken and Tom Goldstein and moderated by Legal Times Supreme Court correspondent Tony Mauro.