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18 Jul 2010, 12:44 pm
The reasoning of these decisions varied at times, but the theme was consistent and widely understood that "a series of steps for conducting business could not be patented" (at pages 26-27 of his decision Justice Stevens cited several such cases including US Credit Sys Co v American Credit Indem Co (1893), Hotel Security Checking Co v Lorraine Co (1908), Loew's Drive-In Theatres, Inc v Park-In Theatres, Inc (1949)). [read post]
24 Jul 2015, 1:53 am by admin2
The observation of my cynical opossum friend (a vegetarian) is once again apt: look into the mirror and you will see “we have met the (plague) and it is usHe was eccentric, gifted, free and brilliantTo be sure, those stories and ballads made our captain to be a most wicked, profane wretch; and if he were, why, God knows he suffered and paid for it, for he laid his bones in Jamaica, and never saw his home or his wife and daughter again after he had sailed away on the Royal Sovereign on that… [read post]
24 Jan 2010, 2:07 pm by Usha Rodrigues
Many have already weighed in on Citizens United v. [read post]
4 Nov 2006, 10:03 am
  (See post 79.)It's a shame that Stevens' tone was so polite and studiously non-personal that his scathing comment on Scalia's intellectual dishonesty went right over the head of the reporter.But lest anyone think that John Paul Stevens is a paragon of intellectual honesty, consider his concurrence in this spring's Georgia v. [read post]
14 Jul 2014, 9:08 pm by Alfred Brophy
I've been meaning to talk for a while about Steven J. [read post]
3 Mar 2007, 9:05 am
As some may know, Louisiana over a decade ago upheld the facial constitutionality of the death penalty for child rapists in State v. [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 9:52 am by Gene Quinn
In his term on the Court Stevens has not been a friend to the patentability of software over the years, See Exploring Justice Steven’s Patent Past for Clues, and was against an expansive view of patentability when he dissented in Diamond v. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 7:46 am by Kiran Bhat
William Jefferson’s congressional office may get a belated review” by the Court. [read post]