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Monday round-up

Briefly:

  • news release from the Georgetown Supreme Court Institute summarizes the Institute’s annual press briefing (which occurred last week) on the upcoming Term.
  • At her On the Case blog for Reuters, Alison Frankel discusses the unusual number of federal securities cases the Court has heard in the last two years and previews Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans, which is scheduled for oral argument on November 5.
  • The Associated Press and the Gainesville Sun report on Justice Clarence Thomas’s recent remarks to law students at the University of Florida. Justice Thomas urged his audience not to give in to the idea that law students at Ivy League schools are better or smarter than they are.
  • Terry Baynes of Reuters, Garrett Epps of The Atlantic, and Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal cover the latest development in the public feud between Justice Antonin Scalia and Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit.

Recommended Citation: Marissa Miller, Monday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Sep. 24, 2012, 9:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/monday-round-up-139/