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"Justices split on Series"
How Appealing — "Justices split on Series": Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report that begins, "He's a right-leaning New Jersey native with a lifelong love of the Phillies. She's a liberal New Yorker who grew up near Yankee Stadium. They're eying each other warily these days from opposite ends of the Supreme Court bench. Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor make no secret of their rooting interests in the World Series, though neither would say whether they have a wager on the outcome."

Justice Scalia Delivers Lesson on Word Usage
ABA Journal Top Stories — ... A lawyer for a company that sells tax-free cigarettes over the Internet got a lesson on word usage from Justice Antonin Scalia on Tuesday. The problems began for lawyer Randolph Barnhouse soon after he described an opportunity to collect tax money as an "inchoate" interest—an interest that is not yet fully formed, the Associated Press reports. Barnhouse was arguing that a city government may not bring a RICO suit to recover uncollected taxes because a lost tax opportunity is not an injury to property covered by the statute. ( ...