Philadelphia Phillies, on appeal: A Bloomberg News article headlined “FCC Can Force Cable to Share Sports TV: Court” makes mention of the following sentence from a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today:
To use a concrete example, we doubt that Philadelphia baseball fans would switch from cable to an alternative [multichannel video programming distributor] if doing so would mean they could no longer watch Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Roy Oswalt, and Cole Hamels take the mound, even if they thought the alternative MVPD was otherwise superior in terms of price and quality.
Speaking of the Phillies, tomorrow afternoon my son and I will return to Citizens Bank Park to watch Phillies starting pitcher Cliff Lee face Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Matt Garza.
Update: Saturday’s final score was Phillies 7, Cubs 1. You can access the box score by clicking here.
In coverage from The Associated Press of today’s rulings of note from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit: An article headlined “Appeals court overturns release of Gitmo detainee” reports on this ruling.
An article headlined “FCC move to close program access loophole upheld” reports on this ruling.
And an article headlined “Court sides with Massey in W.Va. mine appeal” reports on this ruling.
“Pa. appeals court upholds $188M Wal-Mart verdict”: The Associated Press has this report on a 211-page per curiam opinion that a three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania issued today.
“Just In: Katyal Resigning from SG’s Office at End of Supreme Court Term.” Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”
“Court upholds changes to San Diego campaign laws”: The San Diego Union-Tribune has this article reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.
“Verrilli Sworn In as Solicitor General”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”
“Microsoft Loses Final Appeal in $290 Million Patent Case”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.
The Seattle Times reports today that “Microsoft loses Supreme Court patent battle with tiny firm.”
And The Toronto Globe and Mail contains an article headlined “The new standard for justice in patent law is i4i.”
“Judges in standoff over accused rights in Nova Scotia DNA conviction”: In today’s edition of The Toronto Globe and Mail, Kirk Makin has an article that begins, “A clash between liberal and conservative factions on the Supreme Court of Canada has ended in a robbery conviction for a Nova Scotia man linked to a crime by a single piece of evidence — a Halloween mask. The terse standoff between factions of the court illustrates the growing isolation of judges who tend to favour the rights of the accused.”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link.
“Accused sit in jail as military courts drag feet on appeals”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report, along with a related article headlined “After a decade in military prison, innocent man still wants to serve.”
“Supreme Court continues to define what constitutes a ‘violent felony'”: Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.
Today in The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that “Justices Say Fleeing Police by Car Is a Violent Felony.”
And David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court weighs in on car chases; The high court rules that ‘vehicular flight’ is a violent felony, punishable by 15 years in prison if it’s a third offense.”
