With all due respect to the Washington Post, I somehow doubt that Sonia Sotomayor "calls herself a 'Newyorkrican'." I would happily believe that she describes herself as a Nuyorican, though.

Of tangential fannish interest, she was district judge for Castle Rock, an important copyright case centered on an unauthorized Sienfeld trivia book which the publisher unsuccessfully defended as fair use. This guy (former counsel for FOX and NBC) seems to think, based on her ruling, "that copyright owners should have nothing to fear from, and should probably be quite pleased with, President Obama's pick." While Sotomayor deemed the trivia book to be transformative, that factor alone was not sufficient to warrant protection as fair use: "the crux of the fair use analysis remains: the Court must proceed with a careful consideration of the remaining three factors, while merely granting defendants an advantage at the outset."