Justice O'Connor Refuses to Block Ruling in Favor of Former Purdue Student

A U.S. Supreme Court justice this month rejected a request to block a state court's ruling that a California trade association could not sue an individual in California courts over materials he had posted on the Web while he was a college student in Indiana.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor made the decision eight days after she temporarily suspended the ruling, by the California Supreme Court, while she considered whether the DVD Copy Control Association would be likely to win the case on

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