==No Federal Question== In Sam Sloan vs. Paul Truong and Susan Polgar, 08-5813-cv, decided May 8, 2009, Judge Sotomayor ruled that a case involving a defendant who sent out thousands of pornographic newsgroup postings targeting a chess organization that had 30,000 children as members did not present a federal question and thus the federal courts had no jurisdiction to hear such a case.
Two weeks after making that decision, Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Obama.
