Time, Times get two kicks at the crack-legal-expert can

Today’s New York Observer reports that First Amendment lawyer-legend Floyd Abrams, who has been representing Time’s Matt Cooper and the Times’ Judith Miller in the ongoing legal battle regarding their refusal to name sources, now has only one client.

Apparently Cooper decided to hedge his bets and go with an alternative lawyer-legend: Ted Olsen, whose 41 Supreme Court appearances seem to recommend him (not to mention victory in a little case called Bush v. Gore). This effectively breaks out the case into two parts, which means that the court could conceivably issue two rulings.

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