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16 Jun 2014, 2:12 pm by Ben
 Writing on behalf of the Court, Circuit Judge Richard Posner recalled the decision in Silverman v CBS, in which the 2nd Circuit held that when a story falls into the public domain also its story elements - including its characters - do. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 10:00 am by Dan Ernst
  Here is the abstract:     James Bradley Thayer (LC)Richard Posner wrote that the theory of judicial restraint is dead and that the liberal decisions of the Warren Court killed it. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 3:06 am by Walter Olson
[ABA Journal, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin ("attorneys would receive $11 million in fees while their clients would get, at most, $8.5 million — and likely much less")] Tweet Tags: class action settlements, Richard Posner, Ted FrankPosner tosses “scandalous” settlement: lawyers “sold out” clients is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 11:46 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
The Seventh Circuit Opinion Judge Richard Posner, issuing the opinion for the Seventh Circuit, found no reason to affirm the class settlement and ruled that the settlement contained “every danger sign in a class action settlement” that the Seventh Circuit had previously “warned district judges to be on the lookout for. . . . [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 9:05 pm by Barry Barnett
Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner savaged a district court for approving a class action settlement that paid lead class counsel an $11 million fee while providing class members with benefits worth, in Judge Posner's reckoning, no more than $8.5 million. [read post]
9 May 2014, 3:15 am by Amy Howe
Briefly: Yesterday “[l]egal writing expert Bryan Garner . . . launched the latest round in the long-running feud between federal appeals judge Richard Posner on one side and U.S. [read post]
4 May 2014, 4:57 pm by Brian Leiter
Many of my law school colleagues (especially Judge Richard Posner) were strongly influenced by his work. [read post]
4 May 2014, 4:06 pm
Becker was an active commentator on economic issues virtually to the end of his life, including at the Becker-Posner blog, which he started with his University of Chicago colleague Judge Richard Posner. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 11:46 am by Florian Mueller
" Both parties' lawyers are first-rate, so anything could come out of this jury trial, but if the jury doesn't after the first five questions get to the nitty-gritty technical detail, then it's unlikely to get things right.As America's most-cited judge, Judge Richard Posner, put it last year, "Judges have difficulty understanding modern technology and jurors have even greater difficulty, yet patent plaintiffs tend to request trial by jury because they… [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 6:03 am by Marc DeGirolami
  In this new paper that Kevin Walsh and I have written together to be published in the Notre Dame Law Review, we focus on the ways in which two prominent judges--Richard Posner and J. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 5:21 am
Instead, they relied heavily on the economic genius of Richard Posner (somewhere my Mason Law profs are popping champagne at the sight of Posner and economic analysis in a precedential Third Circuit opinion, while discussing how much better the opinion could have been if only the Court had used the Coase theorem and counter-economic analysis from Judge Easterbrook . . . sorry, a little inside-Mason Law humor):[T]he imposition of successor liability will often be necessary… [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 6:28 pm by Barry Barnett
If you do not like Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner, you will enjoy the Federal Circuit's slap-down of their colleague in Apple Inc. v. [read post]