The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in Birmingham City Council v Qasim et al (our notes on the Court of Appeal and county court decisions are here and here, respectively). As our friends at the UKSC blog previously noted, it would be helpful if the Supreme Court would publish such inf ...

L’Accord commercial anti-contrefaçon (ACAC), objet de négociations secrètes, est aujourd’hui au centre des débats internationaux sur le droit d’auteur. Tel est aussi le cas d’un potentiel nouveau traité international sur l’accès pour les déficients visuels aux livres en ligne, qui s’inscrit dans le ...

In my previous post I pointed to an excellent analysis of liberal condescension and gave a couple of examples of it (and discussed a fabulous example of it here). This condescension, as many others have pointed out, is in large part a product of liberals’ faith in their superior morality and their s ...

Voir SEB (T-Fal) v. Montgomery Ward & Co. (Fed. Cir. 2010) Et le commentaire de Patently-o

Voir SEB (T-Fal) v. Montgomery Ward & Co. (Fed. Cir. 2010) Et le commentaire de Patently-o

The Colonel of County Court reports:Alright, remain seated and listen up. We continued our reconnoiter of the Monday County Court situation and things are not looking good. This experiment of no soundings is headed towards failure. The simple reason is that courts don't work if people cannot get int ...

The Colonel of County Court reports:Alright, remain seated and listen up. We continued our reconnoiter of the Monday County Court situation and things are not looking good. This experiment of no soundings is headed towards failure. The simple reason is that courts don't work if people cannot get int ...

In South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, the Florida Supreme Court exercised its all writs jurisdiction, provided by the Florida Constitution, and took jurisdiction of two cases pending before the Third District.  The issues in the case as state ...

The Florida Supreme Court entered an order today accepting jurisdiction in the case of Board of County Commisssioners of Collier County v. Brock, et al (SC09-2190).  The order can be viewed HERE.  The Supreme Court also entered THIS order which stayed the entry of the mandate by the Second ...

Houston lawyer Ed Chernoff (pictured, left) represents Dr. Conrad Murray, one of deceased pop star Michael Jackson’s doctors. Miranda Sevcik, a spokeswoman for Chernoff, says Chernoff, Murray and Matt Alford (pictured, right), Chernoff's partner in Stradley Chernoff & Alford, arrived...