Do you think a Supreme Court justice who has given good wishes, outside of court, to one side or the other should sit in judgment of the case?
Should we hold the justice who chooses to remain on the case accountable for his or her recusal decision?
The Chief Justice of the Court devoted his
Danger, Will Robinson!
Dick Tufeld, as Robot B-9 in Lost in Space (1965-68).
Mr. Tufeld died Jan. 23, 2012. R.I.P.
You run a nightclub. You also drive a Jeep. And sometimes you use the Jeep to bring cocaine and cocaine base to your nightclub.
The police suspect you. They get a warrant to put on your Jeep a device that will allow the police, by using global positioning satellite technology, to track where your Jeep
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 provides that a private person who claims a violation of the act may sue "in an appropriate court of [a] State" so long as "the laws or rules of court of [the] State" permit the suit. 47 U.S.C. §§ 227(b)(3) & (c)(5). May the person also bring her
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68).
I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?" Somebody’s asking, "How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne?" Somebody’s asking, "When will wounded justice, lying prostrate
Well, even if some regulation is permissible, the kind of regulation that the FCC has done here is regulation that gives it complete discretion as to what kind of speech to go after and what not to go after; that it has not tied itself in any way to any kinds of standards. And, it's,
Today, Blawgletter has the pleasure of giving honor to an item by one of our firm's newest lawyers, David Shank, late from a clerkship with the estimable and Honorable Barbara M. Lynn.
Mr. Shank spotted a big issue in a new Texas law that aims to cut back on what our lawmakers and
Nightmare on the stand
The trial judge asks your client what happened to the originals of two key documents. Your client admits she has them at home. The UPS lawyer loudly insists that he'd asked for the "originals" over and over again in discovery.
What does the trial judge do? Order a recess until your
If you wonder what "prosecution history estoppel" in a patent infringement case means, you might check out MarcTec, LLC v. Johnson & Johnson, No. 10-2085 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 3, 2012), in which the court affirmed an award of $4,683,653.03 in fees and expenses to the defendants.
MarcTec alleged infringement by the "Cypher stent" —
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