Washington - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to hear an appeal of a ruling that struck down as unconstitutional the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which was designed to protect children from sexual and other harmful content on the Internet. Originally passed back in 1998, COPA has never been enforced, as opponents sued to block it soon after it passed.

New York - Recently retired U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor has announced her support for a new video game called "Our Courts," an online interactive civics program designed for children in grades 7 through 9, Reuters reported.

Washington - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Major League Baseball in a move that will give fantasy sports leagues the rights to use players' names and statistics without paying a license fee. The initial court ruling in favor of fantasy sports league operators came in 2005, and MLB and its players' association appealed to the Supreme Court in February, arguing that players should retain control over the use of their names and likenesses, and that such licenses are worth billions of dollars.

Washington - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in a case involving the rights of consumers to "unlock" mobile phones from a particular network, which in effect will allow a lawsuit charging AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) with unfair business practices to proceed to trial, Wired.com reported.

San Francisco - The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled against investors who filed an antitrust lawsuit against a number of investment banks, which alleged inflated charges and prices collected during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, CNET News.com reported.