After Ohio State star running back Maurice Clarett won a sweeping victory before U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in his 2004 case challenging the NFL’s age eligiblity rule, the NFL appealed Judge Scheindlin’s ruling and a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard the oral arguments. Judge Sonia Sotomayor, whom President Obama has nominated to the Supreme Court, was one of the three judges and she wrote the opinion in favor of the NFL. The opinion excluded Clarett and similarly situated players from the 2004 draft.

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Jimmy Golen of the Associated Press interviews several people, including Harvard Law prof Wendy Seltzer and me, over St. Louis Cardinals’ Manager Tony La Russa’s recent lawsuit against Twitter and subsequent settlement over a guy creating a fake Twitter account, purporting to be La Russa. An excerpt of the story is below.

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