Weekly Roundup, October 16, 2015

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On Tuesday, the Court discussed Montgomery v. Louisiana, a return to the earlier ruling in 2012’s Miller v. Alabama regarding life without parole for juveniles convicted of murder. The court is considering whether its ruling in 2012 applies to cases finalized when Miller was decided. For analysis, see Lyle Denniston on SCOTUSblog and Noah Feldman on BloombergView.  In the Stanford Law Review Online, Jason Zarrow and William Milliken discuss the  jurisdictional issue in the case.

In The Washington Post, Steven Mazie wrote that the Court “has often been a lightning rod of controversy in its 226 years, but never before have so many darts been lobbed at the institution from so many points on the political spectrum.”

At the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse wrote “the stakes couldn’t be higher” regarding challenges to Texas’s new abortion laws.

Five justices recused themselves on Tuesday in response to an angry petition from a disbarred IP lawyer, Patrick Missud. Without a quorum, the petition was dismissed.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor officiated a same-sex marriage on Saturday, which makes her the third Justice to have officiated a same-sex marriage.

Garrett Epps previewed Sturgeon v. Masica in The Atlantic, a case about “whether the federal government can keep John Sturgeon, a 75-year-old Alaska outdoorsman, from using his personal hovercraft to stalk the wily moose in the wilds of the Yukon-Charley Rivers National.”

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