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Christopher Sabec, Rightscorp’s co-founder: “We get repeat infringers terminated every day.” Photo by Len Irish.
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On a hot June summer day this year, residents from the small farming town of Dryden, in upstate New York, gathered in front of the local courthouse to celebrate. The…
Nov 1, 2014 5:15 AM CDT
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Illustration by Matt Kenyon
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A New Jersey federal district judge dealt a blow to a racetrack’s hopes of providing legal sports betting.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp of Trenton granted a temporary…
Oct 27, 2014 3:00 PM CDT
Justice Antonin Scalia made two public appearances on Wednesday, calling for balance in interpreting the church-state divide in one, and comparing his support for originalism to the quest of the…
Oct 2, 2014 8:44 AM CDT
Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky criticizes both liberal and conservative justices in his new book, but he’s not worried they will hold a grudge should he appear before the U.S. Supreme…
Sep 30, 2014 5:45 AM CDT
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Portrait of Laura Zubulake by Anita Kunz
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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking to the ABA House of Delegates, delivered some choice humor, an informative lecture on the history of Magna Carta and a call…
Aug 11, 2014 5:48 PM CDT
Correction: First impressions can be deceiving and, with the benefit of a month of hindsight after the completion of the Supreme Court term, it is apparent than many of those…
Aug 4, 2014 2:15 PM CDT
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Photo of Judge Richard A. Posner by Reuters/John Gress
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Octane Fitness v. Icon Health & Fitness and Highmark Inc. v. Allcare Health Management System: Both rein in the Federal Circuit’s role in deciding when fees are appropriate, giving U.S. district courts a free hand and taking aim at patent trolls. Photo by Flickr Creative Commons.
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British anthropologist David Graeber recalls discovering the remarkable career of a childhood friend.
The friend was a poet and then the front man in an indie rock band—a singer Graeber…
May 15, 2014 1:53 PM CDT
Legal writing expert Bryan Garner is taking a new tack in his defense of a book he co-authored with Justice Antonin Scalia.
In August 2012, Judge Richard Posner of the…
May 14, 2014 10:45 AM CDT
Daniel Lewis was midway through his second year at Stanford Law School when he became convinced there was a better way to do legal research.
The thought came to him…
May 1, 2014 10:40 AM CDT
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Daniel Lewis: “What we’re trying to do is make the process easier, more intuitive, more thorough.” Photo of Daniel Lewis by Tony Avelar, illustration by Stephen Webster.
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