Here’s today’s Supreme Court ruling, overturning the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Frost v. Van Boening.

I had a post with this exact title just last month, and it too involved a per curiam ruling from the Supreme Court that unanimously reversed an opinion authored by Ninth Circuit judge Sidney Thomas. As I’ve noted, Thomas, a Wyoming Montana native, was trotted out in 2010 as a supposed moderate candidate for the Stevens vacancy that Elena Kagan ended up filling, but he’s really just Stephen Reinhardt dressed up in a cowboy hat.

One difference between this month’s ruling and last month’s: In this case, the Ninth Circuit ruling below was issued by a limited en banc panel (by a vote of 6-5, with Chief Judge Alex Kozinski somehow providing the decisive vote).