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15 Nov 2010, 4:18 am by Kelly
Natural Organics, Inc (Chicago IP Litigation Blog) BPAI reverses an examiner’s rejection of a razor head for shaving invention as anticipated over pizza cutter art: Ex parte James Richard Colthurst (Anticipate This!) [read post]
27 Nov 2016, 4:06 pm by INFORRM
Jeff Joseph Paul Kadicheeni in the Hoot has argued that Twitter’s track record in cracking down on abuse, trolls, and fake accounts is the result of its “indifference, its policies, and ineffective handling. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 12:12 pm by Richard Reibstein Esq.
The Withdrawal Rule, however, was later struck down by a federal district court on March 14, 2022, holding that the Biden Administration had issued the Delay and Withdrawal Rules without appropriate notice and comment periods and had failed to consider alternatives before withdrawing the Trump Rule. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 9:01 pm by John Dean
Rhode notes that many of “our nation’s most revered and most reviled public figures have been attorneys: Abraham Lincoln and Thurgood Marshall; Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon. [read post]
29 Jan 2023, 6:00 am by Lawrence Solum
Early in law school, you might get a professor who tries to whittle the holding of a case down to its ration decidendi by asking questions which force the student to see that the rule that she has formulated as the "holding" is broader than the facts of the case. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 7:29 pm by Andrew Perlman
But at the hearing Fox told the commission that it would be a “terrible mistake” to water down Model Rule 5.4‘s standards on the independence of lawyers. [read post]
24 Jun 2024, 10:37 am by Adam Klasfeld
  During the Watergate era, the Supreme Court unanimously signed off on the special prosecutor’s authority in ordering then-President Richard Nixon to turn over the subpoenaed tapes in 1974. [read post]
31 Dec 2019, 8:15 am by Joshua Holt
Trivia: Before Harrison Ford was cast as Rusty Sabich, both Robert Redford and Kevin Costner turned down the role. 11. [read post]
4 Nov 2022, 5:01 am by Saraphin Dhanani, Tyler McBrien
Elsewhere in the Washington, progressive Democrat lawmakers sheepishly withdrew their letter calling on President Biden to urge Russia to impose a cease-fire in Ukraine, as GOP lawmakers suggested that aid to Ukraine should be pared down, both at a time when Russia has doubled down on its occupation of four regions of Ukraine through an illegal annexation, conducted nuclear drills, and brought the world eerily closer to nuclear annihilation. [read post]
  And it is, at the same time, the beginning of new era in American political life, one in which federal prosecutions of former presidents are—fortunately or unfortunately, as Trump might say—no longer either unthinkable or an eventuality to be avoided, either by prudential exercises of prosecutorial discretion (as in the case of Bill Clinton) or by preemptive exercises of the presidential power of clemency (as in the case of Richard Nixon). [read post]
15 Apr 2013, 7:56 am by INFORRM
/ Slides James Lambert: Law Via the Internet Conference 2013 / jerseylvi2013.org Ministry of Justice consultation: Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system [open 9 April to 4 June 2013] Charlie Beckett: Margaret Thatcher: how she reshaped politics and political communications UK Human Rights Blog, Dr Richard Cornes: “More open, more transparent, and more powerful”: communications at the Supreme Court Index on Censorship: Student Blogging… [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 12:06 pm by Sasha Volokh
[W]hat is heard “depends not just on the content of what is said, but on the context in which it is said, and the accent in which it is spoken. [read post]