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Lyle’s post summarizing all of the action at the Court today is available here. We have a round-up of early press coverage of today’s opinions here. Kevin has more on today’s CVSG in No. 06-1184, Sprint Nextel Corp. v. National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, here. Lyle has more details on today’s grant in No. 06-6330, Kimbrough v. US, the crack v. powder sentencing case, here, and more on today’s grant in No. 06-1221, Sprint/United v. Mendelsohn, here. Todd Rouse has this recap of today’s opinion in Beck v. PACE International, while Neil DuChez has this recap of today’s opinion in Fry v. Pliler. Jordan Connors has this recap of today’s opinion in Watson v. Philip Morris; Kevin Eide’s summary of US v. Atlantic Research is available here; and Matthew Posivak’s summary of Long Island Care at Home v. Coke is available here. Last, but certainly not least, Marty has this post on upcoming opinion days (as well as who might be writing some of those upcoming opinions).

In addition to our coverage of events at the Court, Lyle also has this post regarding the Fourth Circuit’s ruling in favor of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a Qatar national who was taken from his Illinois home and who now challenges his military detention.

The order list is available here.

Today’s opinion in No. 06-1284, Watson v. Philip Morris (per Breyer, J.; reversed and remanded) is available here.

The opinion in No. 06-593, Long Island Care at Home v. Coke (also per Breyer, J.; reversed and remanded) is here.

The opinion in No. 06-562, US v. Atlantic Research Corp. (per Thomas, J., affirmed) is here.

The opinion in No. 05-1448, Beck v. PACE Int’l Union (per Scalia. J., reversed and remanded) is here.

The opinion in No. 06-5247, Fry v. Pliler (per Scalia, affirmed) is here. Justice Stevens’s opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part (joined by Justices Ginsburg and Souter and joined in part by Justice Breyer) is here.