Right now lawyers have ad-hoc systems of signing up for docket alerts on cases they know matter to their field, but it's very ad-hoc and stop-gap.
For a lot of standard motion practice (as opposed to major merits rulings), Westlaw doesn't store brief samples or rulings - so there's a huge amount of content that doesn't have readily findable sample briefs. There's a ton of unnecessary duplication of work.
Bloomberg has a decent Pacer docket text search option across courts, that can at least help you find the sort of thing you're looking for. But it's $$$ and doesn't work that well.
There is no service that lets you search BOTH the docket text, AND the underlying PDF text.
A general "federal court records" search box would be a pipe dream come true.
Also, one note. As much as PACER is terrible, it's still 20x better than any system in any state court ever. Huge swaths of state courts are still paper-only.
Liam O'Grady was also the judge in Megaupload. It's like EDVA has decided that all copyright cases are related and should all go to him. It's an epic myopic game of "eh, how badly can one judge undermine free speech, the internet, copyright jurisprudence, and settled law?"
Russia is immune from suit for an even easier reason: the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
I support Mueller, etc. but this lawsuit is a horrific idea and it makes me want to walk across the street to the DNC and explain in excruciating detail why they’re idiots.
There California goes again, writing legislation that will amount to nothing more than a wealth transfer from taxpayers, to state coffers, to First Amendment lawyers.
Yes -- next steps are trying to either get the Federal Circuit to revisit its opinion or get the Supreme Court to take it. Any actual "damages" trial is easily 2 years away.
For the legal record, its black letter law that parties can't agree to vacate a precedentjal opinion as part of a settlement. Parties try it all the time. So that won't work.
It was 2010. I was in law school, wanting to specialize in tech policy issues. And a guy at a think tank told me to read techdirt. It only took about a week before I was hooked.
Now Survivor can itself counterclaim that Huckabee's invocation of that defense is an unconstitutional establishment clause violation. An article I wrote in law school about this obscure provision of the copyright act is actually relevant! http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2398643
This won't even reach the First Amendment issues. Very clear law says taxpayers don't have standing to sue based on how the government spends money. I expect the ACLU will file a motion to dismiss on standing grounds and the entire case will be over in about 3 months.
We believe you have failed to take account of two elementary facts. One, it's almost legally impossible to defame a corporation, because courts assume that part of the privilege of doing business is the burden of being subjected to criticism. Two, America has this thing called a "Constitution" which includes something known as "the First Amendment."
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Part 2 from the copyright lawyer is up
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190220/13283641640/investigating-higbee-associates-copyright-tro lling-operation.shtml
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Did you read Mike Masnick's intro at the beginning, that said part 2 from the lawyer is coming tomorrow? It's a transition sentence.
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Right now lawyers have ad-hoc systems of signing up for docket alerts on cases they know matter to their field, but it's very ad-hoc and stop-gap.
For a lot of standard motion practice (as opposed to major merits rulings), Westlaw doesn't store brief samples or rulings - so there's a huge amount of content that doesn't have readily findable sample briefs. There's a ton of unnecessary duplication of work.
Bloomberg has a decent Pacer docket text search option across courts, that can at least help you find the sort of thing you're looking for. But it's $$$ and doesn't work that well.
There is no service that lets you search BOTH the docket text, AND the underlying PDF text.
A general "federal court records" search box would be a pipe dream come true.
Also, one note. As much as PACER is terrible, it's still 20x better than any system in any state court ever. Huge swaths of state courts are still paper-only.
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Answer: Badly.
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I support Mueller, etc. but this lawsuit is a horrific idea and it makes me want to walk across the street to the DNC and explain in excruciating detail why they’re idiots.
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Re: Supreme Court?
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(b) generally believing that intellectual property rights should be broad and expansive
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At least, the Federal Circuit wouldn't stop it.
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Vacating
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"You know how Grandma's TV has something called...channels? Yeah, I think it's called channels. And there are breaks where they play commercials?"
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"All fictitious, sensationalized, or caricatured characters must from this point henceforth adopt fictitious names..."
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Establishment clause violation
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Standing
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Dear Roca,
We believe you have failed to take account of two elementary facts. One, it's almost legally impossible to defame a corporation, because courts assume that part of the privilege of doing business is the burden of being subjected to criticism. Two, America has this thing called a "Constitution" which includes something known as "the First Amendment."
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