Round-Up

Last week, ABC News Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg had this article on the short list being prepared by the White House in the event of a summer vacancy on the High Court. Today, at Above the Law, David Lat has this post about Greenburg’s article and her recent appearance at an Ethics and Public Policy Center event where she discussed her book, Supreme Conflict, and offered insights on the Court’s direction.

Marcia Coyle has this article on the “homestretch of the October 2006 term” in the National Law Journal. The AP’s Mark Sherman reports here on the split in death penalty cases heard before the Court this term.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Greg Hitt reports here (subscription req’d) on a patent law battle that has moved from the High Court to the Senate floor, “where a committee is set today to consider legislation back by Democratic and Republican leaders that would make patents harder to get and easier to challenge”; Peter Lattman weighs in here at the WSJ.com Law Blog.

At the Consumer Law & Policy Blog, Scott Nelson has this post on the Safeco v. Burr ruling, which “will heighten the importance of consumers’ taking it up on themselves to check their credit periodically without the impetus of adverse-action notices.”

This editorial, published in the LA Times yesterday, discusses the Louisiana Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding the death sentence of a child rapist and argues that the Supreme Court “shouldn’t compound the error — and increase its own workload — by allowing states to execute criminals who do not take a human life”; Doug Berman weighs in here at Sentencing Law and Policy.

Lastly, at FindLaw, Michael C. Dorf has this piece on the Claiborne dismissal, which “reveals a deep tension in the Justices’ understanding of the power they wield.”