The New York Times reports, "The District of Columbia will ask the United States Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a decision in March that struck down parts of its gun control law, the district's mayor, Adrian M. Fenty, announced yesterday." The case is very significant because as the Times explains, "The decision in March, from a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, was the first in the nation's history to hold a gun control law unconstitutional on the ground that the Second Amendment's guarantee of a right to bear arms protects the rights of individuals, as opposed to the collective rights of state militias."

The New York Sun reports, "Many recent Chinese immigrants will find it more difficult to get asylum after a federal appellate court in New York yesterday narrowed the definition of who qualifies as a political refugee." According to the report, "At issue is how America views policies in some localities of China requiring abortions or sterilization for those who have more than the government's allotment of one or two children."