News and items of interest from last week:
- As of today, gay couples can now marry in New Jersey after the state supreme court declined to delay a judge’s order requiring the issuance of marriage licenses to such couples (SCOTUSblog)
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a challenge against a podcast patent troll with the patent office (Boing Boing)
- Belgium’s capture of a Somali pirate. Their tactic? Convince him they need help making a movie about his life. (Volokh)
- Language and the limits of FCC regulation through the lens of Howard Stern (Legal Geeks)
- And finally, a man threw a parrot at a police officer while avoiding arrest