Judge Sandra Day O'Connor has placed on hold the CA Supreme Court's November ruling in the DVD CCA case.
The November decision had overturned a lower CA court's decision that Matthew Pavlovich, a resident of TX who had posted DeCSS code on his web site, could be tried in CA. The Supreme Court concluded that Pavlovich's activities did not, as required by the effects analysis, expressly aim at the state of California. "Pavlovich may still face the music," the court concluded. "[J]ust not in California."
The Supreme Court of the US, in its entirety, will now decide whether it should hear the case--as the DVD CCA has requested. If it does, it may, finally, successfully do what the Zippo test, and others, tried to do--delineate the web's jurisdictional boundaries.
Coverage is here.