( October 19, 2026, 12:55 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Oct. 19 order list, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a videographer’s petition for a writ of certiorari challenging a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s finding that a North Carolina federal judge was wrong to reopen the man’s complaint against North Carolina and multiple elected officials; the panel said the judge failed to justify the reasons for applying a 2006 high court ruling in the 2021 decision that revived copyright infringement claims centering around images depicting the sunken remains of the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship....