As Joan Biskupic writes in her Supreme Court blog Court Beat, the case has been cited in over 200 state and federal court decisions since it was issued 9 years ago. Biskupic's post focuses on the role that Justice Antonin Scalia played in the legal battle that resulted in the Supreme Court decision that terminated Florida's recount efforts, and the declared that George W. Bush was the winner of the 2000 presidential election. She also notes that, although the majority opinion stated that "our consideration is limited to the present circumstances", "[t]he 2000 ruling has enhanced the grounds for equal-protections challenges to unreliable voting procedures."  

Bing vs. Google is a great new resource that allows you to search both Bing and Google, and lets you compare the results. You can format the results as a split screen, either horizontally or vertically; you can also look at only Google results or only Bing's. Just one minor inconvenience about the split screens: each half appears to have its own scroll bar, but they don't operate independently; scrolling up or down on one automatically moves the other as well. Because related searches are displayed on the top left portion of the screen in Bing, and at the bottom of the screen in Google, it's really hard to compare those, unless you have a photographic memory! Over all, however, this is a very useful site that can help you find what you might be missing by using only one of these two search engines.

Saying that the alternative, trials before the original military commissions, "would have failed to provide the credibility that is essential to acceptance of any final verdict", ABA President Carolyn Lamm expressed the ABA's support of the Justice Department's decision to move the trials to federal court.  Read the BLT blog post for more details, including a link to the full text of the letter.

Media Alerts on Federal Courts of Appeals is a pilot project of the ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judicial improvements. The website currently offers summaries of noteworthy cases from the Third, Fifth and Ninth Circuits, with plans to expand coverage to all 13 Circuits. Providing summaries for the pilot are faculty and students from Temple University's Beasley School of Law (3rd Circuit), the University of Texas School of Law (5th Circuit), plus the University of San Diego School of Law and the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (9th Circuit). The site is open to the public, and although it requires sign-up to use, ABA membership is not required.

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