Round-Up

The last two Round-Ups have only included articles that directly pertain to Tuesday’s grant announcements. Consequently, this one pulls together other Supreme Court news and commentary from the first half of the week.

Talk about Jeffrey Toobin’s book only continues. Tuesday’s Christian Science Monitor included a review by Warren Richey, which quotes some particularly pithy tidbits on the Justices. In case anyone missed it, David Margolick’s Sunday Times Book Review comments on what he sees as Toobin’s big advantage: his “outsider” status. Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick talk about all the talk in their “Nine Ways to Read The Nine.”

Marcia Coyle for the National Law Journal predicts that the coming term will “stand out in court history books.”

Kenneth Jost talks about October’s big business case, Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific-Atlanta for the CQ Weekly.

Joseph Goldstein details the two New York cases in the Court this coming term, one on New York’s system of selecting state judges and one on private school tuition reimbursement for students with disabilities. On that same second case, Mark Walsh for Education Week writes that a decision in Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York v. Tom F. could “rein in” the placement of children with learning disabilities into private schools (subscription req’d).

Greg Stohr considers for Bloomberg News whether Justice Thomas’ reputation on the Court exceeds his influence.

Robert A. Levy, one of the attorneys representing the residents in the DC gun case, comments on the District’s arguments in its cert. petition, here in the Legal Times.

Adam Liptak’s New York Times article, published before long conference grants were announced on Tuesday, discusses the rampant “fear,” but few facts, in the partisan debate over voter IDs.