Big day at the Supreme Court: Two reversals for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (well, that's nothing new) in major patent cases, Microsoft v. AT&T, and KSR International v. Teleflex.
Also, a true first for the justices: a decision that includes a videotape exhibit that the Court has placed on the Internet for public viewing. That came in Scott v. Harris, in which the 8-1 majority found that a Georgia law enforcement officer's high-speech chase of a suspect, ending in the officer bumping his target off the road, was reasonable. The pursuit is on tape, and Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said the videotape "more closely resembles a Hollywood-style car chase of the most frightening sort."
Another major development: the Court granted review in Medellin v. Texas, in which Texas is defying international treaties and the Bush Administration by refusing habeas review for Jose Medellin, a Mexican national convicted of murder. We previewed the Medellin case here. More on the patent cases later...
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