By: Danielle Ulman

If it’s the first Monday in October, it must be the first day of the Supreme Court term. Check out retired Justice John Paul Stevens’ chat with NPR’s Nina Totenberg on the one vote he regrets. And, without further adieu, on to the law links:

• Are recreational activity torts making a comeback?
• Can a green coating under your tongue prove that you’ve been using marijuana? Jon Katz at the Underdog blog calls it junk science.
• Page Croyder reflects on last month’s Baltimore state’s attorney election.
• The Maryland Law Review wants to let its work evolve through conversation — adding taped interviews with profs and taped discussions between themselves about the articles.
• In Europe, fathers should be entitled to breastfeeding leave too.
• The San Jose Mercury News takes a look at Gloria Allred’s use of the media (ht Legal Ethics Forum).
• This one’s hard to believe.