Doing Justice to Technology.

This article reports on the impact on the information-technology industry of the nomination of John Roberts to the position of chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, as of October 2005. As a judge with the Court of Appeals, Roberts presided over a 2003 case in which the Recording Industry Association of America sought to subpoena Verizon's Internet subscriber records to track suspected music pirates. Roberts's nomination could have an impact on future technology-related cases because of the chief justice's power to decide who writes the opinion in cases where he is in the majority.