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No Client, No Jurisdiction: The Docket Of The BayJanuary 27, 2021 at 11:13 PM A lawyer for the Department of Defense had no private right to compel public hearings in the proceedings involving Ibrahim al Qosi In this case, a defense attorney named Philip Sundel (with no client) petitioned a court (with no jurisdiction)... [Author: Legal Profession Prof]Tags: Current Affairs, Legal Profession Prof 5 people like this. Like At the Thursday Night Cafe...January 27, 2021 at 9:52 PM ... you can talk about whatever you want. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, Ann Althouse 43 people like this. Like Wireless brain-to-brain communication steps closer to human trialsJanuary 27, 2021 at 6:20 PM  Tags: Technology, Brain, Medical Research, Military, Innovation, Darpa, Moana, Robinson, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Darpa, Rice University, Jacob Robinson, university s Office of Public Affairs What, Al Emondi 104 people like this. Like Partner’s Wild Email Says More About Him Than The Associates He’s Angry With — See AlsoJanuary 27, 2021 at 6:44 PM Partner Sets Out To 'Embarrass' Attorneys: Clowns himself.
Wait, Why Won't They Rent To Lawyers? Makes you wonder.
Early Law School Ranking Deets: The more you know.
In-Person Bar Exam? What are they thinking?
No Summer Program This Year: A Biglaw firm's response to COVID.Tags: Law, See Also 8 people like this. Like In-Person Office Diehards Eschew Virtual Work, Pandemic Be DamnedJanuary 27, 2021 at 6:18 PM Some lawyers refuse to make any changes to how to how they work because of COVID-19.Tags: Technology, Law, Trivia Question of the Day, COVID-19, Unprecedented, Person Office Diehards Eschew Virtual Work 47 people like this. Like Can A Chinese Celebrity Really Just Abandon Her Surrogate-Born Babies?January 27, 2021 at 5:45 PM And Zheng Shuang is not the first celebrity -- or intended parent -- to be in this situation either.Tags: Law, Family law, Ellen Trachman, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART, Zheng Shuang 1 people like this. Like The ABA Addresses How To Deal With Negative Online Criticism In An Unsurprising And Probably Unfair WayJanuary 27, 2021 at 5:17 PM The committee’s 'best practices' recommendations are seldom likely to get the results the attorney wants.Tags: Technology, Law, Aba, Small Law Firms, American Bar Association / ABA, Steven Chung Are Patents Free for the Taking; or Does the Law Require Just Compensation?January 27, 2021 at 5:01 PM by Dennis Crouch
Christy, Inc. v. US (Supreme Court 2021)
This is a super interesting patent-as-property case. In 2018, Christy filed a class-action lawsuit asserting that the cancellation of its patent via Inter Partes Review was taking subject to the due process requirements of the Constitution as well as the Fifth Amendment requirement of “Just Compensation.”
… nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Christy also argued that the payment of USPTO maintena...Tags: Supreme Court, Law, United States, Uspto, Patent, US supreme court, Fed, Peter, Wright, Christy, Inter Partes Review, Federal Circuit, Celgene Corp, IPR, Court of Federal Claims, Mossinghoff 3 people like this. Like "Telling Didion that 'having a pretty place to work is important to a man,' Nancy Reagan fills an apothecary jar with hard candies for his desk..."January 27, 2021 at 4:43 PM "... carpets the floors of the State Capitol 'in a pleasing shade of green,' Didion writes. (What green carpet, Didion’s deadpan delivery invites us to ask, has ever been 'pleasing'?) Didion’s understated tone registers the nuances obscured by the quotidian: the stiff neutrality between mother and son ('The Skipper’s arrival is, I have been told, the pivotal point of Nancy Reagan’s day'), Nancy’s preference for little choreographies... As [Didion] puts it in her 1976 essay 'Why I Write': 'I writ...Tags: Books, Writing, Law, Reagan, Joan Didion, Nancy, State Capitol, Nancy Reagan, Durga, Didion, Ann Althouse, Interior Decoration, Greenness 21 people like this. Like "A lack of distancing irony is, generally, an element of cringe, whether it’s imagining Trump nailed to a cross or picturing Michelle Obama as a Jedi master."January 27, 2021 at 4:31 PM "Sometimes the cringe is so earnest and so personal — as when one Twitter user declared that, in her fantasies, 'Pete & Chasten will have Kamala & Dougie over for weekly potlucks that Michele O. will crash with a bottle of wine & gossip' — that the offending individual literally deletes her entire account. Either way, the earnest invocation of an idealized politician being either a stacked savior or a wine-sipping bestie makes a mockery of the idea that politicians are nothing more than fellow c...Tags: Law, Michelle Obama, Avengers, Irony, Kamala Harris, Trump, Embarrassment, Ann Althouse, Trump and pop culture, Pete Chasten, Kamala Dougie, Michele O, Sonny Bunch WaPo Yes 32 people like this. Like Biglaw Firm Skipping Their 2021 Summer Associate Program In Response To COVID-19January 27, 2021 at 4:13 PM First Biglaw firm to forego this year's summer program.Tags: Law, Biglaw, Saul Ewing, Summer Associates, Canceled Summer programs, COVID-19, Unprecedented 23 people like this. Like Landlord Refuses To Rent To Lawyers, Which Doesn’t Sound Shady At AllJanuary 27, 2021 at 3:44 PM There are so many legitimate reasons to keep lawyers out!Tags: Law, Property, Biglaw, Small Law Firms, Law Students, Landlord/Tenant 48 people like this. Like "You know what, I was a big Trump supporter, I was really pulling for Donald Trump, but he lost fair and square."January 27, 2021 at 3:28 PM Said... Mitt Romney. Quoted in, "Mitt Romney to Republicans: Stop perpetuating ‘big lie’ that Biden stole election from Trump" (Deseret News). “You have many of the Trump supporters in elected office, senators, congresspeople, governors, continuing to say the same thing, that the election was stolen,” Romney said. But, he said, what they should tell people is that the Trump campaign “had a chance to take their message to the courts, the courts laughed them out of court. I’ve seen no evidence ...Tags: Voting, Law, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, Biden, Evidence, Donald Trump, Trump, Romney, Ann Althouse, Supreme Court Courts, the Trump resistance, Trump Deseret News 46 people like this. Like With Biden In White House, GOP Discovers That Executive Orders Are Bad ActuallyJanuary 27, 2021 at 3:14 PM If it weren't for bad faith, they'd have no faith at all.Tags: Law, Government, White House, Joe Biden, Biden, Constitutional Law, Executive Orders 15 people like this. Like New PatentlyO Law Journal Essay: Is Global FRAND Litigation Spinning Out of Control?January 27, 2021 at 2:36 PM New PatentlyO Patent Law Journal article by Thomas F. Cotter, Taft Stettinius & Hollister Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, and Innovators Network Foundation Intellectual Property Fellow. Professor Cotter is also the author of the Comparative Patent Remedies blog.
Abstract: It has often been observed that, while patent rights are territorial in scope, commerce is global and, increasingly, interconnected. Indeed, with the advent of 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), tec...Tags: Google, Law, Dc, Patent, Alice, Federal Trade Commission, Donald, Thomas, PAUL, Mayo, Duffy, Cotter, Ninth Circuit, Patent Office, Federal Circuit, ARIAD 20 people like this. Like Findings From The 13th Annual Law Department Operations SurveyJanuary 27, 2021 at 2:14 PM This year’s survey from the Blickstein Group offers the first real data on the pandemic’s effects on law department operations. Join an expert panel at 1 p.m. on Feb 11th for insights on the report.Tags: Technology, Law, Webinars, In-House Counsel, Legal Operations, Blickstein Group 49 people like this. Like Inquest finds mother took overdose after removal of benefitsJanuary 27, 2021 at 2:08 PM Coronor says Philippa Day’s experiences with DWP were ‘predominant factor’ in her decisionA severely mentally ill young mother died from a deliberate overdose after the removal of her disability benefits left her destitute, trapped in a months-long state of high anxiety and haunted by suicidal thoughts, an inquest has concluded.The coroner, Gordon Clow, said Philippa Day’s long struggle with the benefits system had been a “stressor” in her decision to take the overdose in August 2019. She was fo...Tags: Society, UK News, Mental Health, Dwp, Philippa Day, Gordon Clow 20 people like this. Like Roadmap Stories: Real People, Real CommunityJanuary 27, 2021 at 1:16 PM We sat down with attorney Nick Pleasants of Pleasants Law to discuss his experience in our Lawyerist Lab Community. Lawyerist: Can you give a brief description of your firm, its size, practice area, location, and a little bit of how you started it? Nick: Sure. So, I have my own law firm in Bellevue, Washington. I’m the only […]
The post Roadmap Stories: Real People, Real Community appeared first on Lawyerist.Tags: Law, Blog, Bellevue Washington, Real People Real Community, Nick Pleasants, Pleasants Law 36 people like this. Like YouTube demonetizes Rudy GiulianiJanuary 27, 2021 at 11:18 AM  Tags: Post, News, Law, Youtube, Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani, Trump, Rudy Guiliani, MSNBC Trump, Dominion Voting Systems 144 people like this. Like Biden says: "The fact is systemic racism touches every facet of American life, and everyone — no matter your race or ethnicity — benefits when we build a more equitable America."January 27, 2021 at 11:07 AM  Tags: Law, White House, America, Biden, Kamala Harris, Ann Althouse, Critical Race Theory, Biden rhetoric 138 people like this. Like Coronavirus Update 1-27-2021: Tread carefully if offering employees financial incentives to get the COVID-19 vaccineJanuary 27, 2021 at 11:14 AM  Tags: Law, Biden, Ada, Joe, EEOC, Fauci, Jon Hyman, Hakan Nural 51 people like this. Like Reviewing Prez Trump's clemency work from a number of perspectivesJanuary 27, 2021 at 11:57 AM It is now a full week since former Prez Trump issued a large batch of clemencies in his final hours in office (basics here and here). The final 140+ clemencies on the final day, and Trump's entire clemency efforts, are full of fascinating and frustrating stories with respect to individual cases and the entire body of clemency work. Here is just a partial round-up of recent pieces assessing Trump's clemency record:
From the Business Insider, "Trump's pardons may be poorly worded enough to leav...Tags: New York Post, Law, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Medicare, Donald Trump, George W Bush, Justice Department, Trump, Douglas A Berman, Prez Trump, Notably Trump, Federal Sentencing Reporter, Prez Biden, Center for Responsive Politics Trump, New York Times The Road 34 people like this. Like Does the PTO have Authority to Regulate Briefing before the Federal Circuit?January 27, 2021 at 11:38 AM by Dennis Crouch
Normally, a notice of appeal filed in federal appellate court does not include details on what particular issues are being appealed. That comes later in the appellant’s opening brief.
One exception is found in R. 44 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP). R. 44 requires notice of any Constitutional Challenge of a Federal or State statute. This must be provided “immediately upon the filing of the record or as soon as the question is raised in the court of appe...Tags: Law, US, Uspto, Patent, Authority, PTO, Federal Circuit, Dennis Crouch 24 people like this. Like FOSTA Survives Constitutional Challenge–US v. MartonoJanuary 27, 2021 at 11:36 AM This case involves the DOJ’s prosecution of CityXGuide.com, which allegedly tried to pick up the online commercial sex advertising business after Backpage’s shutdown. The DOJ’s initial press release and Techdirt’s coverage of it. A grand jury indicted the site’s principal, Martono, for “promotion and facilitation of prostitution and reckless disregard of sex trafficking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2421A” and other non-FOSTA charges. Martono moved to dismiss on the basis that FOSTA is unconstitu...Tags: Facebook, Law, Congress, Senate, Marketing, US, Salesforce, Doj, DOE, Kik, Thomas, Ferrer, JB, New House, Woodhull, Content Regulation 28 people like this. Like I'm 20 and stressing to the point of getting grey hair. It's too much | Jake TurnerJanuary 27, 2021 at 11:30 AM When I hear my dad’s friends talk about their carefree youth, it’s too overwhelmingRead Jake’s last Dreams interrupted diary hereRead how the pandemic-fuelled recession will affect Australia’s young people hereName: Jake TurnerAge: 20My birthday came this month just as Covid round three hit in New South Wales. I was really hoping it wouldn’t happen, but everything happens for a reason. Instead of my plans to go camping with my family I had three dinners so I could see everyone (we are only allow...Tags: Australia, Society, Australia news, Unemployment, New South Wales, Young People, Youth Unemployment, Jake, Jake Turner, Jake TurnerAge 22 people like this. Like Illinois PotpourriJanuary 27, 2021 at 11:14 AM The Illinois Supreme Court has acted in a number of bar discipline matters described in this Announcement by the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission Highlights Ms. Calloway, who was licensed in 1994, was suspended for one year and until further... [Author: Legal Profession Prof]Tags: Law, Illinois Supreme Court, Legal Profession Prof, Bar Discipline & Process, Illinois Potpourri 35 people like this. Like Petitions GrantedJanuary 27, 2021 at 11:14 AM The Wisconsin Supreme Court has granted reinstatement to suspended attorneys in two unrelated matters. One of the granted petitions involved an attorney who had made false statements Attorney Bant was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin in 2013. Her license... [Author: Legal Profession Prof]Tags: Bar Discipline & Process, Legal Profession Prof 1 people like this. Like Please prove me wrong: Jose Garza wants to make Grits eat my wordsJanuary 27, 2021 at 11:14 AM Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza is trying to change Grits' mind about "progressive prosecutors." He hasn't succeeded yet, but in the early days of his administration, he's giving it the ol' college try.In the last week, Garza announced indictments of two officers who'd allegedly engaged in excessive force but weren't punished by police management, and said a grand jury would soon consider charges in the deaths of the police officers who killed Mike Ramos and Javier Ambler. Then yester...Tags: Texas, Law, Bilbo, Apd, Fox Mulder, Moore, Ken Paxton, Corpus Christi, Manley, Jimenez, Garza, Houston Dallas San Antonio, Travis County, Gritsforbreakfast, Mike Ramos, Brian Manley 41 people like this. Like |
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