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Paul E. Peterson offers these suggestions to Wall Street Journal readers about achieving the goal of integration in the wake of the Parents’ Involved decision (subscription req’d).

Justice Talking presents this recording of a discussion among Supreme Court reporters and scholars, including Jan Crawford Greenburg, Richard Garnett and Geoffrey Stone, in which they “analyze the significant decisions of this term, and tell us how the addition of two conservative Justices has affected the year’s cases.”

The American Enterprise Institute offers this essay on cases last term pertaining to liability reform, like Philip Morris v. Williams, and concludes with a section entitled “Looking toward October Term 2007.”

The DailyWrit serves up a summary of a handful of the cases on next term’s docket, including Boumediene v. Bush and Al-Odah v. US, Kimbrough v. US and Danford v. Minnesota.

The Washington Post reports here that, in a speech to the National Governors Association, former Justice O’Connor spoke out against the rising tide of “attacks” on judicial independence.