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Here’s an LA Times story on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision to grant review:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-court-black19-2009may19,0,771650.story

And here’s Mark Steyn, who is a fried of Black’s:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWMwNGMzYjNhOGJlNjI1MmExNDc3MDI5ZTVkZTk0OTM=

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One more piece of supplementary material before I go to sleep (even though no one is actually reading this thread). Here’s Justice Scalia dissent from denial of certiori (i.e., dissent from the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a case) from February of this year, in another case which, like Conrad Black’s, challenged the federal “honest services” statute:

Link to PDF:

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/08pdf/08-410.pdf

Link to Google-transformed HTML:

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:5XReLmrTGg4J:www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/08pdf/08-410.pdf+calia+%22honest+services%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a