Round-Up

Tony Mauro of the Legal Times has this exclusive interview with Justice Alito about his first year on the court.

Here (registration req’d), in an editorial in the Chicago Tribune, Geoffrey R. Stone discusses Chief Justice Roberts’s view that Supreme Court cases should be decided on narrow grounds (Professor Stone also posted a very similar piece on the U. of Chicago Faculty Law Blog here which does not require registration). In today’s Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports here on advice for Supreme Court practitioners given by the Chief Justice during his speech at Northwestern University School of Law last week.

ABC news correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg has this post at her blog Legalities drawing comparisons between the Supreme Court and the Chicago Bears (via How Appealing).

Ethan Lieb has this review at FindLaw.com of the documentary, The Supreme Court, which continues tomorrow night on PBS.

At the Patently-O Blog, George Washington Law Professor John F. Duffy has this post on the Nuijten case being argued to the Federal Circuit today, in which he discusses the Patent and Trademark Office’s textualist approach to the interpretation of the Patent Act.

Doug Berman has this post at the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog highlighting notable distinctions between Claiborne and Rita, which will be argued before the Court in two weeks.

Finally, the Tax Prof Blog points to this article by David Cay Johnston of the New York Times on a federal tax court ruling in the continuing litigation in a case that reached the Supreme Court earlier, Ballard v. Commissioner.

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