Shot Down by the Supremes

My best hope yet of taking on the Supreme Court face to face got shot down today. You can read the Fourth Circuit's opinion in the case here (the dissent got it right, needless to say). We filed a petition for cert, which generated an order from the Court requiring the Solicitor General to respond. Normally the Court just denies the petition without seeking a response (at least in our cases). So I thought there might be a slim chance of actually getting some play in this case. No such luck, as it turned out.