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The Montana Supreme Court has issued an Opinion in the following matter: DA 07-0170, 2009 MT 248, ROBERT JACOBSEN, Plaintiff, Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant and Appellant.

... ), (Ars Technica) US CAFC holds that copying free software without complying with license is copyright infringement: Robert Jacobsen v Matthew Katzer: (IP Thinktank), (Ars Technica), (Lessig), (creativecommons.org), (Electronic Frontier Foundation ... Blog), Jacobsen, Robert - CAFC holds that copying free software without complying with license is copyright infringement: Robert Jacobsen v Matthew Katzer: (IP Thinktank), (Ars Technica), (Lessig), (creativecommons.org), (Electronic Frontier Foundation ...

... to power model railroads (part of the fun of software companies is that they are e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e, isn't it?). The plaintiff in this case is Robert Jacobsen, a professor of physics and sponsor of the Sourceforge-powered Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI). ... one very narrow issue addressed in the opinion (embedded in the rest of this post) most interesting. The decided to dismiss Jacobsen's claim of unfair competition because, "[JMRI] never had an expectation of compensation by making [ ...

... licences are contracts, and therefore breach of licence should be pursued as breach of contract. As I wrote before, the case involved Robert Jacobsen, an open source developer participating in an open source project called Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI), which is a model train software released it under the Artistic License. Jacobsen received a letter demanding the licence fee payments from a company named Kamind Associates, owned by Matthew Katzer, which ...

... in America from a Republican president is, in fact, a Republican, Toobin writes: After four years on the Court, however, Roberts's record is not that of a humble moderate but, rather, that of a doctrinaire conservative. The kind of humility that Roberts favors ... the very nature of imposing - putting him-or herself at the top of the organizational chart. So what Toobin meant was that Roberts uses his political power to establish or reinforce one set of power relationships rather than another. That' ...

... the Court as an impartial institution that transcends partisan politics. There's a couple of ways of looking at that. Either it means that the Roberts Court will concentrate on easy cases, such as slapdowns of particularly lawless decisions by the Sixth and Ninth Circuits. (See post 210 and post 207.) Or, more positively, it means that the Roberts Court will decide cases on narrow grounds, resolving the issue presented rather than the issue of the justices' dreams, ...

... not copyright infringement. The distinction is important because it's easier to recover monetary damages in a copyright-infringement case. Robert Jacobsen, who manages an open source software group that created an application he claims was infringed, sought an injunction against KAM Industries, which makes a competing product. The lower court denied Jacobsen's motion. The appeals court vacated that ruling Wednesday and returned the case to the district court. "Traditionally ...

... for 4.1 million dollars has been entered in favor of the Estate of a Tacoma Longshoreman by United States District Court Judge Robert Bryan. The judgment arises from a 40-foot shipping container accident in November of 2006 at the Port of Tacoma. The longshoreman ... for the several hours decedent survived before his death. The longshoreman's Estate was represented by Beard Stacey Trueb and Jacobsen. The case was filed in United States District Court for the Western District of Washington at Tacoma.

... without lawyers for hearings that lasted just a few minutes. More convictions are under review. Former PA Child Care owner Robert Powell, a lawyer, pleaded guilty July 1 to paying kickbacks to the judges. Prominent construction company owner Robert K. Mericle, who built ... Elia angle casts an interesting light on that $3.5 million libel verdict against the Citizen's Voice. A man named Robert J. Kulick, whom we'll meet again in a couple days, testified D'Elia claimed to have been assured by Conahan ...

... a 1988 case for authority that a particular view of the law was "clearly established." At the end of his dissent today, Chief Justice Roberts mocks the idea of getting clearly established law from a dissent. Here's the last paragraph: Still, perhaps there is no ... in 1988, even though it so clearly didn't. When the Supreme Court acts, it creates its own reality. But was Roberts revealing himself to be part of the reality-based community, or did he use reality for the same reason a Neandertal used ...