The case was brought by two New Jersey newspapers, and turned on the scope of the press and the public's right to attend administrative proceedings.
But the general feeling was one of resignation – that awards are no longer within the scope of small presses.
How else to explain the government's careless inclusion of small-scale bloggers and friends with their own Facebook groups in the scope of the Leveson press regulation?
"ICANN is careful to say they're just assigning names and numbers," says Zittrain, "but that's like saying you have the narrow scope of running the printing presses that happen to print money.
In the Muslim world, clericism curtailed the spread of knowledge, while in Europe, aided by the printing press, the scope of scholarship dramatically widened.
"The scope of the speech," insisted White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, "is bigger than where the speech was going to be given or who's the leadership of the country".
Addressing swirling questions about the scope of the investigation during a press conference at the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump said he'd like to see a "very comprehensive" probe of the allegations, telling reporters that the FBI "should do what they have to do to get the answer".
As this article goes to press, the scope of the worst oil spill in U.S. history remains a moving target.
The proposals emerged after delays during which several commissioners, including those from Belgium, Britain, Germany and Sweden, pressed to narrow the scope of the proposals, according to European officials.
From the beginning, the three international judges have pressed prosecutors to reduce the scope of the complex trial, which involves three Balkan wars and may last two years or more.
The press council will need to define the scope of the scheme, and how it applies to newspapers and others when publishing via the internet.
