The Supreme Court, on a day on which it issued six decisions, released none of the major controversies still to be decided — the Ten Commandments displays cases, music and movie downloading and copyright, government seizures of private property for private re-development, and access to cable companies’ broadband lines for high-speed Internet connections. Twelve cases overall remain to be decided — counting the two Ten Commandments cases separately. Other rulings will come Thursday and next Monday, and perhaps another day next week.
In one of the rulings the Court did issue, it upheld the authority of states to impose registration fees on trucks and other commercial vehicles that operate at least part of the time on a state’s roads.
It also issued two rulings to clarify filing deadlines — one under the 1996 law limiting the time for filing federal habeas challenges to state convictions or sentences, and another under the federal False Claims Act.
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