Shades of Freerepublic and the Washington Post. It will be interesting to see how it's resolved and if Freerepublic can benefit.
Benefit? Except for the tiny photos, the supposed infringement news.google.com engages in is arguably less than FreeRepublic's exerpts. So I can only see a down side here. Then, I am a pessimist type.
I'm not sure why they are going after news.google.com's use of their headlines and the first few words of their stories, when over at www.google.com and groups.google.com you can often find cache residing on google hard drives and containing the entire text of a news story.