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Here, the AP reports on the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision today in the attorneys’ fees case, Travelers Casualty & Surety Co. v. Pacific Gas & Electric.

In today’s Washington Post, Robert Barnes has this article on the two cases argued before the Supreme Court yesterday, Morse v. Frederick and Wilkie v. Robbins, and columnist Dana Milbank weighs in here on the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case. The LA Times has this editorial on the student speech case; Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick has this piece; Karoun Demirjian reports here in the Chicago Tribune; the USA Today’s Joan Biskupic has this article; Tony Mauro of the Legal Times discusses yesterday’s argument here; and in today’s New York Times, Linda Greenhouse has this report.

AP writer Mary Clare Jalonick reports here on the Wyoming rancher’s harassment and retaliation case, which was also heard by the Court yesterday. Kevin Zhou of the Harvard Crimson has this article on Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe’s argument in Wilkie v. Robbins.

At NPR’s “Justice Talking”, the full program examining excessive force and the Harris v. Scott case is now available here. In addition, C-SPAN’s “Q&A” featuring SCOTUSblog’s own Lyle Denniston is available here.

In the USA Today, Laura Vanderkam has this op-ed on judicial restraint and the Court’s forthcoming decision on school integration.

At Workplace Prof Blog, Paul Secunda has this post on the sexual harassment case that the Court decided not to review yesterday.

The AP’s Brett Zongker has this piece on Justice Kennedy’s performance in the unscripted mock court trial of Hamlet, part of the ongoing Shakespeare in Washington festival.

Finally, at the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy web site, the introduction of an article by Lee Epstein, Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Jeffrey A. Segal, which is part of a dialogue concerning ideological drift on the Supreme Court, is available here (via How Appealing). Linda Greenhouse’s response can be found here.