US Supreme Court rules against software patents

As a general rule almost every court in the land knows how it's going to rule before anything is even submitted to them. They seek justification in their ruling for what they already decided. This is one of the first lessons they teach in lawschool, they assign the student lawyer an opinion and tell them to justify it using the existing law and rulings.

Scalia is renowned for this, he routinely quotes dictionaries from as far back as 1777 to justify some opinion's he's prepared in the effort to redefine the meanings of words because the law doesn't support what he wants to rule. Fortunately it finally appears we have a Justice (Kagen) that is going to challenge him on rewriting the definitions of words.