Round-Up

At Sentencing Law and Policy, Doug Berman wonders if Florida will execute Clarence Hill today.

Andrew Cohen has this column on WashingtonPost.com called “Chaos in Sentencing.”

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has this article highlighting the pending cert. petition in Washington v. Washington Education Association (05-1657). That case is on Tom’s list of petitions with a reasonable chance of being granted, and its full-text can be downloaded here.

Linda Greenhouse at the New York Times covers the changes in the way that courts will identify judicial conflicts of interest announced at a conference led by Chief Justice Roberts. Lyle discussed these new regulations yesterday here.

Finally, Eugene Volokh has these thoughts on the Supreme Court’s previously defined “right to intimate association” in the wake of a lower court ruling which, citing to this right, forced the College of Staten Island to officially recognize the fraternity AEPi on its campus.