Alito, Jr., wrote separately — as he has once before — explaining why he was willing to let the issue develop further in the lower court. [read post]

The regulations at issue applied by virtue of the project’s location in the City’s voter-adopted “Residential Conservation Zone” (RC Zone), which aimed to protect “prominent ridges, hilltops and hillsides, slopes, arroyos, ravines and canyons, and other areas with high visibility or topographic conditions that warrant sensitive development from adverse development practices. [read post]

  Also designed to give the consumer a way to do time-shifting of TV program viewing, one version of the new technology was the “Remote-Storage DVR,” developed in the cable TV industry. [read post]