Talk about STRANGE bedfellows...

...a case just decided by the Supreme Court was a split decision 6 to 3.

The six were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

The three dissenters were Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and, Justice Antonin Scalia.

Holy ****...what unholy alliances for both sides.

The case involved resale of copyright material imported from a foreign country. The New York Times described it:

The copyright case, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, No. 11-697, arose from the activities of a Thai student who attended Cornell University and the University of Southern California. The student, Supap Kirtsaeng, helped pay for his education by selling textbooks that his friends and relatives had bought in Thailand at low prices and shipped to him.

A publisher of some of the textbooks, John Wiley & Sons, sued Mr. Kirtsaeng for copyright infringement, and it won $600,000 in the lower courts. In a 6-to-3 decision, the Supreme Court threw out that award and ruled that imported copyrighted goods were subject to the same rules as goods bought in the United States: owners of particular copies can do what they like with them.