“Supreme Court upholds metal bat case”: This article appeared yesterday in The Helena Independent Record.

And The Associated Press reports that “MT Supreme Court rejects Louisville Slugger appeal.”

You can access Thursday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Montana and the parties’ appellate briefs via this link.

“Wal-Mart Agrees to Give Women Extra Time to File Discrimination Lawsuits”: Bloomberg News has this report.

And Reuters reports that “Women suing Wal-Mart head back to court.”

“High court appeal planned on military impostor law”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Ex-M’town cop’s suit against bosses is on”: The Times Herald-Record of Middletown, New York contains this article today.

The Associated Press reports that “NY appeals court reinstates 1st Amendment claim by policeman who says he refused to lie.”

And Reuters has a report headlined “Police officer’s brutality complaint is free speech — court.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

Attorney Stephen Bergstein. author of the “Wait A Second!” blog, represented the appellant.

“Judge reduces music downloading penalty”: Today’s edition of The Duluth News Tribune contains an article that begins, “A federal judge has reduced the penalty imposed on a Brainerd woman for illegally sharing 24 songs online from $1.5 million to $54,000.”

cnet News reports that “Jammie Thomas judgment lowered from $1.5 million to $54,000.”

And at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post titled “Judge Slashes ‘Appalling’ $1.5 Million File Sharing Verdict to $54,000.”