Round-Up

Joseph Goldstein of the New York Sun reports here on the foreign sovereign property tax case, Permanent Mission of India v. City of New York, scheduled for argument on April 24.

In yesterday’s New York Times, Linda Greenhouse had this article on Chief Justice Roberts’s revealing dissent in Massachusetts v. EPA. On Saturday, the New York Times ran this editorial urging the Supreme Court to hear an Alabama due process case. Brendan Kirby reports here in The Mobile Press-Register on the case of Jack Cline, who was told by the Alabama Supreme Court that there was never a valid time to sue the companies who produced the chemical that he believed caused the rare form of leukemia, which ultimately resulted in his death.

On Saturday, AP writer Mark Sherman discussed Kennedy’s crucial swing vote here.

In today’s Washington Post, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, has this column discussing last week’s Massachusetts v. EPA decision. Yesterday, the Washington Post’s Julie Eilperin had this editorial on the Court’s ruling. In today’s edition, Henri E. Cauvin reports here on the District of Columbia’s petition to revisit last month’s D.C. Circuit ruling, which found that the city’s gun law violated the Second Amendment. And yesterday, Washington Post Staff Writer Elissa Sliverman had this article profiling Shelly Parker, one of five plaintiffs in the D.C. handgun ban suit, Parker v. District of Columbia, which will likely make its way to the High Court.

Here, at the Election Law blog, Rick Hasen points to this essay by Jim Gardner about the Lopez-Torres case, which will be heard before the Court next term.