"There was a piece on it on NPR this morning. There are also front page articles in the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, and FOXnews."
See. There ya go. It's being completely ignored by the MSM, for sure. This should be an interesting case, but I don't expect it will end up the way the school board wants it to end up.
I agree, and I think the Discovery Institute knows this. One of the key skills in lawyering is to choose your battles carefully. This is about the worst case to argue the ID side; there are paper trials proving religious motivation on the part of the school board members, and showing that the textbook they adopted (Of Pandas and People) simply took the word 'creationism' in their final draft and replaced it with 'intelligent design'.