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Is this what AP reporter Hope Yen meant when she wrote last month that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the property rights of cable companies would “limit competition and consumers’ choices” for broadband services? *** Previous: SCOTUS Watch: Cable companies don’t have to share their lines

Hospitalized for fever. WaPo: The chief justice had been coming to the court daily but did not show up as usual Wednesday morning. Court officials initially declined to say why he was absent or explain unusual happenings at Rehnquist’s Arlington home. Members of the media near the residence saw a court police officer make several [...]

Hah! Serves him right. Meantime, Bureaucrash is holding a protest on the Supreme Court steps tomorrow dubbed “Operation Our Land.” Keep on top of new land grabs at Eminent Domain Watch. Get in touch with other property rights activists at The Castle Coalition’s online forum.

The Supremes uphold the property rights of cable companies. An ISP named Brand X had argued that it should be allowed to use infrastructure that the cable companies had built. In a bit of editorializing, AP reports that the decision “will limit competition and consumers’ choices.” In fact, the decision will encourage cable companies to [...]

The SCOTUS struck a big blow for digital copyright protections this morning. Associated Press reports: Internet file-sharing services will be held responsible if they intend for their customers to use software primarily to swap songs and movies illegally, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting warnings that the lawsuits will stunt growth of cool tech gadgets [...]

The (right side of the) blogosphere’s response to yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling on Kelo v. New London has been stunning. And heartening. Eminent domain isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks “blogswarm.” But the fierce reaction to the decision shows that core economic liberty issues can still unite disparate factions of [...]

The Supreme Court’s decision in the New London eminent domain case is in, and it’s a devastating blow against homeowners and private property rights: A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth [...]

The Supreme Court weighed in today on the pros and cons of file-sharing (which I’ve blogged about here, here, and here). Record companies and movie studios have sued to shut down peer-to-peer software makers such as Grokster and Morpheus, arguing that the millions of songs and movies copied each day over these networks have cut [...]

I agree with this op-ed in today’s Washington Post by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, which questions the conventional wisdom that the Supreme Court slapped down the Bush Administration in the “war on terrorism” cases. An excerpt: [W]hen all these cases are read together — the Guantanamo Bay case, along with the [...]

Terrific op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo (link is for subscribers only): Taken as a whole, the Court’s message is unmistakable: The days when terrorism was merely considered a law enforcement problem and our only forces were limited to the FBI, federal prosecutors and the criminal justice [...]

Wading through this morning’s Supreme Court rulings on the Guantanamo Bay detainees and enemy combatants, at least one thing is immediately clear. The use of the military tribunals that the Bush administration fought so hard for is loooong overdue. Background here and here, including an unexpected defense of military tribunals from John Dean. Update: Just [...]