Law: Flunked Tests

Drunks and trademarks lose

The annual spring flood of major U.S. Supreme Court decisions is still to come, but last week, after a brief recess, the Justices issued a series of rulings. One concerned an intriguing case involving drunken drivers. In disposing of hundreds of cases with cursory orders, the Justices left intact an appeals-court ruling on the game of Monopoly.

Choice Consequences. Mason Neville, 45, had allegedly consumed nearly a case of beer when two policemen in Madison, S. Dak., pulled him over for running a stop sign. Asked to take a blood-alcohol test,...

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