“On the Docket: The Return of the Tort Bar; Several major cases on the docket for the Supreme Court’s fall session will test the resilience of class-action lawyers in the wake of legislation designed to curb frivolous lawsuits.” Barron’s has this report.

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“Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaks to students”: The Collegian — the University of Richmond’s student newspaper — has this news update.

“Supreme Court justice pays visit”: Today’s edition of The Daily Journal of San Mateo, California contains an article that begins, “Stephen Breyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, didn’t start his talk Friday morning by discussing his accomplishments. Instead, he focused on a title he earned at birth.”

“Can new 9th Circuit cy pres ruling save $20 mln Facebook deal?” Nate Raymond has this report at Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight.

“How Two of the Nation’s Leading Conservative Jurists Locked Horns Over a Two-Word Phrase: When Godzilla fights Mothra, who do you root for?” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

And at his “Sentencing Law and Policy” blog, Douglas A. Berman has a post titled “One district judge’s take on the spat between Justice Scalia and Judge Posner.”

“AEDPA, Apprendi, Almendarez-Torres (oh my!) debated in [en banc] Third Circuit opinion”: Douglas A. Berman has this post at his “Sentencing Law and Policy” blog about an en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued yesterday.