Round-Up

Dahlia Lithwick at Slate decides here that she much prefers Justice Scalia’s “defiant public honesty” to silence, because if “some of the justices really are operating according to some broad ideological agenda,” then she would “rather hear the battle plans than not.”

There are two pieces in the upcoming issue of The Nation that involve the school integration cases. David L. Kirp writes in his article that “these cases represent the last chapter in the half-century effort to end racial isolation in the public schools” (subscription req’d). In her column, Patricia L. Williams writes an impassioned judgment of the decision and the media response to it.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports in this article on a speech US Solicitor General Paul Clement gave to the Philadelphia chapter of the Federalist Society on the business-friendly Court.

Alternately, attorney William Lerach has this different opinion on the so-called “business friendly” turn in the Court.

In his post for the BLT, Tony Mauro briefly discusses one rule concerning amicus briefs in the revised Supreme Court rules.

A summary of Supreme Court employment law decisions this term can be found here.

Workplace Prof Blog offers this post, in which it suggests that the Garcetti decision “completely eviscerated public employee free speech protection.”