Various tech communities are giving Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor good marks for her stands on a number of important issues.
Wired reports Sotomayor takes the record industry (RIAA) line when it comes to copyright protections both on and offline. And, if confirmed, she will be the first justice who has written cyberlaw-related opinions (4) before joining the court.
In those Sotomayor supported consumers v. hidden contract terms on a web site (Specht v. Netscape); administrative procedures on a domain name squatting case (Storey v. Cello Holdings); and on privacy where she ruled employers (in this case New York State agency officials) did not violate the Fourth Amendment privacy rights when they searched an employee’s computer at work (Leventhal v. Knapek).
For surely, caffeine-crazed geeks, simply because of their background, should be able to make better decisions about a Supreme Court Justice nominee than some old fat white guys in the Senate, yes?