Nearing the end of its current Term, the Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a 1911 antitrust decision, and said that from now on, challenges to vertical price restraints would be judged by rule-of-reason analysis. The vote was 5-4, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy writing for the Court in Leegin Creative Leather Products v . PSKS (06-480).
In a second opinion by Kennedy, also splitting the Court 5-4 but along different ideological lines, the Court ruled that the Fifth Circuit Court had used too restrictive a standard of mental competency in upholding a death sentence for a man whose delusions are said to keep him from fully understanding why he would be executed. The case was Panetti v. Quarterman (06-6407).
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