The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear the appeal of Supap Kirtsaeng ’02, an alumnus who lost a $600,000 suit for copyright infringement in August. Oral arguments are set to begin in the fall.

Law student Kirk Sigmon outlines the legality and illegality of modifying your PS3.

Francis Sohn, law, examines the relationship between the Supreme Court and the media.

If Obama was trying to reorient the tone of contemporary Supreme Court jurisprudence by mentioning empathy and nominating Sotomayor to the bench, he failed. If anything, Sotomayor’s confirmation process has cemented a strict, restrained way of judging into the public consciousness. The liberals may have won the nomination, but the rhetoric of confirmation remains conservative. Answers to substantive questions have become predictable, stale and largely meaningless as nominees have learned to avoid controversy by saying very little and placate fears of activism by adopting a restrained, deferential persona. Above all else a nominee wants to be confirmed, and the conservative script is the most assured way of doing so, apparently even when the Democrats control the Senate.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Silent on central questions of gun control for two centuries, the Supreme Court found its voice Thursday in a decision affirming the right to have guns for self-defense in the home and addressing a constitutional riddle almost as old as the republic over what it means to say the people may keep and bear arms.

The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns and imperiled similar prohibitions in other cities, Chicago and San Francisco among them. Federal gun restrictions, however, were expected to remain largely intact.

The court's historic awakening on the meaning of the Second Amendment brought a curiously mixed response, muted in some unexpected places.

The Supreme Court of the United States recently reached a decision in Boumediene v. Bush that we will all come to regret. The Court ruled that detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, and any enemy combatants that the U.S. captures, have the right to a habeas corpus appeal in U.S. civil courts. This decision has been praised as a victory for civil liberties and as a rebuke of the Bush administration’s handling of the war on terror.