But one can easily imagine that if it had been upheld the ruling would have been used in contexts far divorced from images of child trafficking.
The biggest talking point, by far, concerned Ian Bell and India's decision to withdraw their appeal about 20 minutes after it had been upheld.
Bob Blank, a dean at Intermediate School 364 in Brooklyn, said that he had filed such a grievance on June 2, and that it had been upheld when his principal and superintendent did not contest it.
The court found that the police acted in good faith in requesting his information, given that it had been upheld by numerous lower courts, and therefore allowed proceedings against him to continue.
But his confession, if that is what it was, has been upheld three times by Mexican courts, where statements extracted by torture are legally admissible.
A majority of the House and Senate voted for it, the president signed it into law, its constitutionality has been upheld by the Supreme Court, and a majority of Americans reelected the President after an election battle in which the Affordable Care Act was a central issue.
Its claim has been upheld by Zimbabwe's Supreme Court but continues to be ignored by the government.
Now that the ACA has been upheld, it's worth remembering that many throughout the US felt that it did not go far enough, and instead support a single-payer system that would better conform to the idea of healthcare as a human right and a public good.
But Treasury rules do require it, and the Treasury's position has been upheld by the courts, which have ruled that an estimate of what might be recovered isn't enough for a taxpayer to claim his losses.
