Not Remaining Silent: Critics of Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Miranda rights are calling it a major retreat from the landmark Warren Court decision that helped criminal suspects, The National Law Journal reports.
BP's Anticipated Costs: The combination of cleanup costs, lawsuits, fines and other damages is causing shareholders to sell stock in BP PLC, The New York Times reports. The stock price fell 15 percent Tuesday.
Kagan's Deanship: The Los Angeles Times examines Elena Kagan's time at Harvard University and comes away with this impression: "She is far less a theorist than she is a practitioner and problem solver."
Coincidence?: Via Law.com, The Associated Press tells the story of Texas lawyer Shawn Roland Roberts, who was at the scene of four separate deaths. Criminal investigators have interviewed him.
D.C.'s AG: The D.C. Council approved legislation Tuesday that would give voters a chance to decide whether the city's attorney general should be elected instead of appointed by the mayor, The Washington Post reports.
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