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Justice Samuel Alito spoke recently at a Law Day gathering of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, discussing misperceptions about the U.S. Supreme Court. According to Justice Alito, it is not extremely important for the court to hear oral argument, Supreme Court clerks do not do all the work, and the Court is not pro-business. See the article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch .

A recent article in the Harvard International Law Journal analyzes the blogging activity of Chinese judges and public interest lawyers. Professor Anne S. Y. Cheung discusses what this activity says about the power of the Internet and the exercise of free speech in China. According to Cheung, blogging by Chinese judges, often in their real names, is not unusual. More than a third of the judges' blog postings examined by Cheung related to legal research. Source: Stanford's Robert Crown Law Library Blog

Beginning July 1 of this year, anyone eighteen or older who is arrested in Ohio for a felony will be required to submit a DNA sample (via saliva swab). The requirement is part of Senate Bill 77, signed into law last year by then-governor Strickland. Senate Bill 77 News: Columbus Dispatch WTOL 11 (Toledo)

CALI has launched The Free Law Reporter (FLR), a searchable electronic case reporter including "nearly every recent appellate and supreme court opinion" in state and federal courts since January 1, 2011. The FLR uses the bulk feed from Public.Resource.Org's Report of Current Opinions (RECOP) discussed here in December . One interesting feature of the FLR is that cases are available for downloading in epub format for compatibility with e-readers. Searching is limited to basic keyword searches, though more advanced search options are in development.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in the case of Kentucky v. King (previously discussed here ). The Court held (8-1, Justice Ginsberg dissenting) that police were permitted to conduct a warrantless search of an apartment when they smelled marijuana, knocked and announced their presence, then heard noises they thought were indicative of drugs being destroyed--that the exigent circumstances rule applied because the police did not violate or threaten to violate the Fourth Amendment. Opinion here . Commentary: NPR The Wall Street Journal Law Blog The Volokh Conspiracy

In its Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room , the CIA recently made accessible the U.S. Government's six oldest classified documents. The documents are from the World War I era and describe how spies concealed information by secret writing. Method #25 from document 6 is dipping a toothpick in common milk and writing between the lines of an ordinary letter. Ironing the letter with a hot flatiron supposedly reveals the concealed writing. Via Barco 2.0