Early Returns Unfavorable

The AP reporter who watched the oral arguments doesn't seem to think the law has good chances.

Vermont v IMS Health

Oral arguments on the first data-mining case to reach the U.S. Supreme Court are being heard today.

I thought there might be a way to listen to the actual arguments live, but that doesn't seem to be the case. (Ridiculous in the 21st century, I say, if we claim to be trying to keep citizens engaged.)

But transcripts are put online pretty quickly. Here's a site I've found:

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts.aspx

I gave a talk on data-mining at the Left Forum a few weeks ago. Most of the audience had never heard of data-mining. They were absolutely shocked that this existed. One of the questions after my talk was literally, "But they can't really have ALL that information, right?" And I had to say, Um, No, they do have all of it.

Oral arguments are April 26.