Round-Up: Today’s Orders & Opinions

In the Wall Street Journal, Mark H. Anderson reports here (subscription req’d) on the High Court’s opinions in Credit Suisse, Powerex, and Brendlin.

At MarketWatch, Robert Schroder reports here on the decision in Credit Suisse Securities v. Billing; Pete Yost of the Associated Press has this article discussing the High Court’s ruling, “a setback to investors suing over their losses in the crash of technology stocks seven years ago”; James Vicini reports here on the outcome of the antitrust case for Reuters. Bloomberg’s Greg Stohr has this story on the 7-1 decision giving “investment banks a new shield from antitrust claims, throwing out lawsuits that accused the securities industry of rigging 900 initial public offerings”; at CNNMoney.com’s Legal Pad blog, Roger Parloff weighs in here; Petter Lattman has this post at the WSJ.com Law Blog.

Washington Post Staff Writer William Branigin reports here on the Supreme Court’s decision in Brendlin v. California “that a passenger in a vehicle has the same right as a driver to challenge the constitutionality of a traffic stop”; David G. Savage has this story in the LA Times on the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling, which “is likely to prove significant … only in cases in which police did not have a valid reason for stopping the car in the first place”; Mark Sherman reports here for the Associated Press. At Reuters, James Vicini has this article on the decision, “a defeat for California officials”; David Stout reports here in the New York Times; McClatchy’s Michael Doyle has this story discussing the ruling, which affirms passengers’ constitutional rights to search-and-seizure protections; at Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr weighs in here on the Brendlin decision, stating “Justice Souter’s opinion gets it right”.

At Opinio Juris, Roger Alford has this analysis of the Court’s opinion in Powerex v. Reliant Energy Services, which addresses “a delicate procedural question regarding appellate jurisdiction and the FSIA immunity protections.”

In the Wall Street Journal, Anderson also has this article (subscription req’d) on today’s orders granting cert. in an ERISA case, allowing a tax ruling to stand, and rejecting a case about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s power to deal with electricity refunds. Kent Scheidegger of Crime & Consequences has this post on the Brendlin decision and two cert. denials in capital cases; at Sentencing Law & Policy, Doug Berman weighs in here on today’s action. Paul Secunda has this post on the Court’s grant in the LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates ERISA remedies case and this post on the Court’s decision to deny review in the ERISA inalienability case, Cox v. DaimlerChrysler.